Visual Effects 1: Lesson 1

Visual Effects 1 (VEF1)

Lesson 1: Rigid Bodies

Rube Goldberg, here I come.

This was an experience that was both fun and hair pulling difficult all

at the same time. Everything in the video was created using simulations

of gravity, hinges, springs; all things to make everything move and interact

with the next object, hence the Rube Goldberg. It's a great exercise

for rigid bodies and it helped us learn a lot. The project itself wasn't hard,

it was getting the objects to simulate the way we wanted them to, that was

the hair puller.

Pre Pro:

These Images are basically top and bottom of the same project. And this shows

the direction and flow of one item to the next.

Following the Red will take you through the course in just the simple

plane direction. The Yellow, which appears small in most areas, is where I

need to put constraints in order to control the movement of certain items.

For example Hinges act just like more door hinges, wherever you put the

hinge is where the pivot point of motion is, so like the seesaws at the bottom;

those will obviously have a hinge constraint in the center to help it move there.

The Green and Purple show what type of active bodies these items are. The Green, 

or active, shows what objects will moved when touched, where as the Purple,

passive, shows what will interact with the active without movie. Like the 

ball will be active because it moves, but the board its rolling on will

be passive, it stops the ball from falling and interacts with it, but does not

move itself.