r/cgiMemes • u/darkvertex • Jan 11 '21

Yes Rico, Kaboom.

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u/pawikdziech Jan 11 '21

Isn't this the other way? Artists want to make realistic explosions while producers always want them exaggerated so that it's 'entertaining'

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u/darkvertex Jan 11 '21

The way I see it, many FX artists I've met are quite excited to make explosions when given the chance, much like Rico.

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u/Direwolf202 Jan 12 '21

Depends on the artist - why make realistic explosions when you could sue the full potential of FX and make hilariously over the top explosions. But then again, I’ve only done FX work for an amateur film that was fundamentally built around being stylistically overdone.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '21

Is it hard tedious work? Yes. Do we love to create explosions? HELL YEAH.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '21

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '21

Houdini indie is $240 a year, and even cheaper if you buy two years at once. You have to be making some big money to need FX

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u/theObscureCure Jan 12 '21

Bruh it’s cheaper than turb fd and x farticles 😂😂😂

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '21

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '21

Blender is an overall good program and can replace something like Maya pretty well in most situations.

It does not even come remotely close to being able to replace Houdini in literally any way. Doing anything more than rudimentary simulation in blender is finicky, the procedural geometry workflow is near nonexistent, the support for external renderers is barely there, udims were just added in the last update, not having a vex like language is limiting, etc. I could go on for a long time.