A fun personal project with a spiraled cigarette and playful music, made to attract a wider audience on Instagram.
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Type
Non-commercial
Non-commercial
Year
2024
Role
CG Artist
2024
Role
CG Artist
Credits
CG Artist / Artie Hinz
Sound Designer / Alexander Maslyuk
CG Artist / Artie Hinz
Sound Designer / Alexander Maslyuk
Research and Development
To create the burning paper effect in Cinema4D, I used a setup built around a Vertex Map.
An invisible sphere triggers the Rigid Body tag when it touches the ash (Voronoi Fracture) inside the cigarette.
Here's what happens:
— Physics Activation: The sphere activates Rigid Body physics, enabling gravity and causing the Voronoi Fracture pieces to fall.
— Transparency Effect: The sphere also activates the Vertex Map, making the cigarette's outer layer (white paper) transparent.
— Burnt Material: The same Vertex Map, combined with extra nodes, applies a "burnt" material to the paper.
— Smoke Generation: An invisible object moves in sync with the burning paper and generates smoke.
An invisible sphere triggers the Rigid Body tag when it touches the ash (Voronoi Fracture) inside the cigarette.
Here's what happens:
— Physics Activation: The sphere activates Rigid Body physics, enabling gravity and causing the Voronoi Fracture pieces to fall.
— Transparency Effect: The sphere also activates the Vertex Map, making the cigarette's outer layer (white paper) transparent.
— Burnt Material: The same Vertex Map, combined with extra nodes, applies a "burnt" material to the paper.
— Smoke Generation: An invisible object moves in sync with the burning paper and generates smoke.
I also used additional tricks for particles, extra smoke, and other details, but those are minor and not worth detailing here.
Paper Material
