Create a Spectacular Crash Animation With Maya Dynamics – Day 2

on Jun 23rd 2009 with 17 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Software: Autodesk Maya
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Estimated Completion Time: 2 Hours
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Spectacular Crash Animation With Maya Dynamics

It is always great to learn new animation tools and techniques that can help you to bring your creations to life. In this tutorial we will learn how to use Maya’s powerful animation, dynamics, and camera tools to create an explosive crash effect between two vehicles.

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I am a 23 year old 3D artist based in Seattle, WA. I have always had a passion for video games, but it wasn’t until high school that I realized that I could make video games as a career. I have immersed myself in 3D ever since. After graduation I was hired by Microsoft as a 3D environment artist and am still working there today. When I am not sitting behind a computer, I love to spend time camping, skiing, and biking around Redmond.  

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  • http://kieraninnes.com Kieran Innes

    I’m liking all these ‘mulitple-day’ tutorials on here. It adds quality to the tutorial because you don’t have to rush everything out in 1 vid.

    Great site.

  • Martin Klekner

    I love this sie, really helps me to get into cg creation. thank you.

  • http://labs.dariux.com Dario Gutierrez

    Excellent final result.

  • FDL

    excelent!!!! thnx!!!!!

    • http://www.google.com/ Sagi

      For the love of God, keep writing these atirlecs.

  • http://www.dsaportfolio.com.br Diego SA

    Ah! Awesome! Interesting you use various point of view of the crash. Remembered game “Burnout Revenge”, lol!

  • askhfsafkll

    DLHlds

  • Kris

    Awesome Tutorial I just started playing with maya this weekend and have really enjoyed following you thru this. Just a quick question though I have a few piece that when I play thru the simulation from the last tutorial that seems to pass thru each other. Did I do something wrong and is there an easy way to fix this? Thanks

  • zcreem

    Interesting tutorial really a shame the video compression is a so bad though.
    What codec did you use? I places it is really hard to watch.

  • hemanth

    this tutorail is the best i ever seeing this type of tutorail,i want scene file also if possible

  • mark

    The video’s are broken?

  • Lars

    Hey, awesome tutorial…thanks! But can’t you parent the display model parts to the collision model parts even before you put together the jeep? Or will that mess up the simulation?

  • Dominik

    Can i make this in 3D MAx too ?

  • ctbram

    Techniques are good but the video compression was bad. The final results at the end of the day 2 session was completed borked.

    Also, one might want to set up a naming convention between the collision model parts and the render parts and then a script then uses a foreach loop to cycle through every part in the collision model and transform the corresponding render part so it is in the correct location and orientation (in effect automatically building the render model) and then parenting each render part to the correct collision part.

    This would not be hard to do as long as you keep the transformation data for the collision parts and you either move the render parts to the same starting location or add proper offsets to the translation.

    For a model of this scale manually parenting in not terrible but on a large project the time required would be prohibitive and so some kind of parenting script would have to be use.

    Overall though it was a good tutorial.

  • bin_yaseen

    Also, one might want to set up a naming convention between the collision model parts and the render parts and then a script then uses a foreach loop to cycle through every part in the collision model and transform the corresponding render part so it is in the correct location and orientation (in effect automatically building the render model) and then parenting each render part to the correct collision part.

    This would not be hard to do as long as you keep the transformation data for the collision parts and you either move the render parts to the same starting location or add proper offsets to the translation.

    For a model of this scale manually parenting in not terrible but on a large project the time required would be prohibitive and so some kind of parenting script would have to be use.

    Overall though it was a good tutorial.

  • Alex

    I’m running Maya in a HP Pavillion DV7 laptop, with an i7 intel atom, 8gb of RAM, and a 2GB graphic card, however every time I try to simulate this crash, it goes excruciating slow, until it freezes completely.
    I’m pretty sure it’s not supposed to go this slow with a computer with this specs., might it be a problem of the modelling of the legos, or how I set them up? (I think the gap between the legos might be to narrow).
    Anyhow, my actual questions is whether or not my laptop is supposed to run this simulation as quick as the video did. If anybody could answer that, I would truly appreciate it.
    Thank you in advanced!

  • ben

    What a great tutorial.

    Took a while but i got there

    check the result at

    https://vimeo.com/45862483

    Thanks again

    Ben