Realflow is a really great 3d graphics program that specializes as a water simulator, perhaps it was used? Im not sure but heres an example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUOrLVW98-c&feature=related

He also used the sharpen tool hell of carefully for the "texture" to say @.@

I've heard alot about "V-ray" when I'm reading about 3D (and 3D animation), and I cant figure out what it is. Anyone?

V-Ray is a rendering engine that is used as an extension of certain 3D computer graphics software.

It is a rendering engine that uses advanced techniques, for example global illumination algorithms such as path tracing, photon mapping, irradiance maps and directly computed global illumination. The use of these techniques often makes it preferable to conventional renderers which are provided as standard with 3d software, and generally renders using these technique can appear more photo-realistic to the human eye, as actual lighting effects are more realistically emulated. The use of this engine has been known to increase the necessary computational power and rendering times due to the complicated nature and volume of calculations required.

V-Ray is used in the development of film productions and multi-million dollar game productions.

if you are doing pen and ink you can keep areas white alot easier by using masking fluid

I saw this and I thought it was very cool? around about how long and how many vector layers would this take someone?



This post was edited by domthepom on May 21 2008 04:14am

well I think those are some pentools. some vectors and splatter brushes. no big deal.

How would you go about reducing the size of animated pieces without drastically lowering the quality? I've seen it done but never explained.
Thanks !

1 of them is to remove a few of the layers that don't make so much difference :S

This post was edited by Ivan94 on May 21 2008 11:28am

You can't make animations high quality low file size unless you do them in flash, really.

You just have to find a suitable balance of quality and file size.