BAMF effect

Spoke to Adam burr again regarding another effect that we are planning. The effect was used in Xmen2 for the night crawler called the "BAMF" effect. It is a wispy smoky effect that will be a hovering cloud around the Jabberwocky. Our assignment for class today was to create a fluid animation flowing along a path and it is something that I could use for this effect. When he saw the reference Adam said that there are times when physically creating the effect in the real world is better and more realistic. Since we want this effect to almost shadow the Jabberwocky we will need to create it within Maya or contract a really skilled compositor.

For the Dynamics final I will probably re-create this effect so that I get an idea of how difficult it is an also get an idea of render times.

I went searching online for some information on this effect and discovered that you tube was full of videos of people who had already attempted this. Some good and some.......hmmmm. Some created with 3d and some used after effects and compositing to get their results.

The way I am looking to recreate this is a little differently. It is not going to be used to make a character disappear but rather it will be like a hovering effect, like a shadow, around the Jabberwocky's wings.

To understand the effect better please visit the following links, there were many but I am just posting the original and one done by someone else

XMen2 Nightcrawler


YouTube