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iwkya
61 posts

26 Jun 2010
Hi guys,

So im animating a scene atm and in it one of the main guys gets his arms sliced off. I want to show the inners of his arm (ie the red bits hehe), and was wondering if anyone has any good thoughts on how to go about this. I have a few ideas that will work but just thought i'd ask in case someone has done this before .. This is pretty low poly too so detail etc isn't to important.

Cheers
Jonathan
480 posts

26 Jul 2010
For the model, I would suggest a sculpt from Zbrush/Sculptris/Mudbox, for the effects, maybe Particle flow and perhaps the Blobmesh compound object in Max?

For the blood, etc. I guess a raytraced material masked with a fresnel term, and for time sake, I guess rendering out layers and composting them together.

Here's a link to a real-time game application from GDC (Leaf 4 Dead 2 wound rendering) that may or may not help,
http://www.slideshare.net/alexvlachos/g ... ad2-wounds
(or link to the PDF, http://alex.vlachos.com/graphics/Vlacho ... Wounds.pdf)
iwkya
61 posts

03 Aug 2010
thanks Jonathan. I am intending to use pflow and blob for a few things. I did intend my post initial post to ask how i might go about the setup of a limp being rigged to a character and then breaking off, my fault for not being quite clear. Im not sure how the setup would work in terms of bones etc. I am using cat so it makes things a lot easier too.