Tornado August 22, 2006
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A friend asked me if I would like to join the Elektrofilm Stuttgart VFX-team which at that time was currently working on effect shots for the German TV-movie “Tornado - Zorn des Himmels”. So I worked for two month there and learned a lot.
We used lots of particles and instanced geometry objects for the the debris. The rendering of the particles was done with Renderman.
You can see some of my shots in the clip below.
(Clip 5,0 MB)
Here’s another shot. This was quite hard. My job was to get the windows blown in and sucked out again in 30 frames. The original footage was a static camera. I made a coarse rebuild of the scene and added the light and the binocular.
(Clip 0,2 MB)
Here’s a sequence of the movie I found on Youtube (in Spanish 
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