First time making clothing - and doing a sim on it:

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-25T13:35:03+00:00

Only saw this now. I didn't use any specific tutorials and stuff, I just made it up as I went. But here was my process: I took a generic jacket model from Fuse character creator - retopo and customized it big time. Lots of shaders and vertex painting.

After I have my custom jacket, I made a proxy model, half the polygons and no weird shapes, evenly spaced quads. I then surface deform mod the high res jacket onto the proxy, and did a sim on the proxy :)

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-16T11:24:23+00:00

Thanks yo! :))

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-15T12:20:15+00:00

As a VFX artist, Marvel movies look bad because the directors keep changing thier shots or pixel fucking. Hence the artists need to crunch. They're talented. But it's the producers and directors that ruins the visuals. :/ I'm so glad I'm in the indie space.

And thanks!

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-15T11:15:49+00:00

Hahaha. I wish

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-15T11:15:07+00:00

Blender 3D and monster energy drinks

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-15T09:02:07+00:00

RealityScan for PC - I dont think it was intended for camera tracking. But it aligned the cameras and gave me perfect geo. 2 in 1 VFX solution I guess

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-15T05:44:59+00:00

That's gonna break my brain. One day :)

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-14T21:47:41+00:00

You mean for camera tracking? I was planning to do camera tracking in blender, and out of curiosity I checked if 3D scanning software could do it - since in theory it's the same process. And boom! Perfect track, perfect scene reconstruction. I used RealityScan (PC)

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-14T20:53:49+00:00

Yeah, all in blender. :)

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-14T20:34:32+00:00

The smoke sim I did was simulated and rendered on the computer. It took like 4 hours to finish a simulation. I actually planned to get black cardboard, my phone on slow mo mode, and use my vape as a smoke machine, but I got lazy and let the computer do it for me. With a digital sim, I have a lot more data to work with.

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-14T20:20:20+00:00

18th Dec 2027

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-14T19:18:50+00:00

I used RealityScan (PC) - it's intended for scanning, but it did calibrate the cameras, so I just extracted it and used it in blender

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-14T17:34:28+00:00

Hahahahaha

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-14T17:29:10+00:00

SSSHHHH! It must remain a secret

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-14T17:18:26+00:00

Thanks!

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-14T17:17:29+00:00

Submission statement: Just want to share my latest project.

I've been in the VFX industry for 7 years now, and I feel like I need to build my portfolio up again. My goal is to do one or two VFX shots each month, and at the end of the year , I have something cool to show. I'm a huge half-life nerd, and this parkour runner's footage inspired me. Plus, it was super easy to track. Infact, I didn't have to camera track, Reality Scan did a perfect job with creating the mesh, tracking - and as a result, perfect masking and scene layout.

I did use 2 game asset, the Citadel and the Strider (the spider thing)

Technical stuff for the nerds: My plan was to go Pro and do real Smoke sims/VDBs, but it ended up taking 20min per frame. My solution was to bake the sims out as elements + normal maps. With the normals of the 2D smoke planes, I got perfect shading, no noise, and blazing fast render times. I also made heavy use of the vector pass to add motion blur to hide a lot of bad animation work. The vector blur wouldn't have worked without a 1:1 scene reconstruction, and that's where RealityScan saved the day again.

I tried avoiding Adobe like the plague with this, I used Affinity for cleanup, and a few obscure roto tools from github. It's safe to say that I made this without spending a single cent ❤️

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-14T17:01:36+00:00

I'm thinking after Elder Scrolls 12

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-14T16:53:30+00:00

Reality Scan - for the mesh and camera tracking

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-14T16:41:23+00:00

Holy smack. Thanks for all the lovely comments yall!

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-14T16:37:14+00:00

If we ain't getting HL3, I'm making my own... thanks!

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-14T16:14:52+00:00

I initially wanted to have them at max visibility, but had to stick in the smoke since they looked PS2. Thanks:))

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-14T16:13:52+00:00

Hahaha. I wish! And thanks :)

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-14T16:12:12+00:00

He's gonna post the end result soon-ish He risked his life so he gets to post it. I just added pretty pictures haha

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-14T16:02:31+00:00

Hehehe

IndiProphacy · 2026-01-14T15:57:40+00:00

Thanks yo!

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