Here is my final project. Many complications, but I think it turned out well overall. A few things that never worked quite right... I couldn't get the tornado to work properly in 3D space by actually moving the emitter. I wanted to do this so that the tornado would twist and bend in a natural way, but I was only able to move the entire layer. Also, I wanted to have a layer exploder particle layer on the barn, but this didn't work either. Well, actually, I don't know if it worked. I made this layer, but could not watch it. The ram preview took 10 min to load less than 2 seconds of it - even on 1/3 resolution. I tried to export it all so I could see it and then tweak it, but after several failed exports, I had to turn the layer off, as I was worried it was not going to work and didn't have time to do another export.
Why this is so late: I was expecting a long render, but I was not expecting a 13 hour render. I started the render the first time on Thursday night, left it running over night, only to come back the next morning to discover that the server had filled up mid-render, and so it did not complete. I started the export again immediately, it took until after the labs closed Friday night. I tried to go in first thing this morning to get it, but all the labs were closed until noon. I got it as soon as they opened, and finished the audio.
Here is the final product.
Tornado Alley from Ryan Kirk on Vimeo.
Thanks again to all of you. It was a great class.
Ryan
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