the link is here.

http://www.modernmayhem.com/home.html 

Id use this site from now on as Im going to slowly phase out the wordpress site.

check it out here

periodicfunctions.html including curlnoise 

We follow the tradition here at Modernmayhem in providing you with useful tutorials that you can actually use in production and that makes you fully understand whats going on once and for all.
For this tutorial we start a series of production examples. This one is for creating a ‘Steam’ effect. It covers the absolute basics and follows right through to the effect using a technique I use in production to get the most out of fluid fx, predictably and efficiently….

GO TO THE TUTORIAL NOW

I will be posting the second part soon. Workflow, which focuses on optimising your FluidFX for production.
(given the tools we have in the first part)

Just finished making a nice new splash page which was fun, in preparation for a site redesign, plus I was a bit sick so no tutes last week, sorry about that. I’ll put that up on sunday night. But…also on sunday/monday I’ll be publishing a new video, “Advanced FluidFx Scripting”. Once again it will be focused on production tips and techniques with ofcourse scripting.

The site is going up to $39 dollars before then too. (maybe $49 actually cos its turning into a full course!!).

So far I’m up to 5 out of 6 vids. Then the site re -do then the making the tornado rendering tutorial *aargh* Theres going to be some late nights this week!!

So, after the vids, Im doing a quick redesign also but Ill try and do the upgrading as seemless as possible. So just be warned. Dont bookmark too many pages even tho Ill leave them up and unchanged for a while.

This week includes a second video to show an important technique, automating your workflow using MEL.

Go to the tutorial now

also a new page called

USEFUL SCRIPTS and PLUG-INS  page

• nCloth window shatter effect.
  -As seen in my demo reel at the end. With particle animation also.
  -I used blast code for that to break up the glass but I want to show how you could achieve the same thing with nCloth.
• blood spurts
  -Like the movie 300
• dust:
  -Better Fluid fx and particle integration techniques for driving particles
  -sprite texturing and raytracing vs points and deepshadows
• Making of Tornado project: Rendering:
  -instancing fluidfx shader, mental ray motion blur
  -3delight rendering
  -deep shadows
  -custom particle 3delight attributes
  -Compositing the effect (maybe separate vid) using Fusion (altho Im learning Nuke now so maybe it will be in Nuke)
• Real World Lighting of particles - techniques:
  -lighting particles realistically with minimal light
• blast code: (i keep putting this one off hehe theres so much else to do!)
  -making of blast code test
• Tweaking ambient occlusion and realistic scale
  -mental ray final gather: tweaking for scale
  -rendermans ambient occlusion: tweaking for scale

I also still have more scripts and particle techniques to put up but is best done as text and images.
After the next two video tutes go online, the price of admission into the site is going up. So you better get in early.
Sorry guys, the price has to go up, its too much of a good deal otherwise and the site server wont be able to handle the traffic. I’m still doing what I can to make the site faster.