Realistic sand animation

[Anonymous]

Hi all,
I need to create a shot like the 'sandman' formation in spiderman 2. It would be around 20-30 sec. I would like to know the efficient way of doing it.

reference : sandman video

[krueger_1]

Using pflow and rendering with krakatoa will give you the best results.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Krueger. Well what about the inter particle collisions?? can we pull it off with 'keep apart' operator?

[krueger_1]

Depends on the animation you're doing. I would try to sculpt it first without looking at inter-particle collisions. If it's not close up, you probably won't notice it anyway.

Using pflow tools box #2 with the physx collision would probably be a better alternative. You could use a low amount of particles, then create a high number of partitions in krakatoa to build up the volume.

[Anonymous]

Well i will give that a try.