This is set of short channel IDs. Little glass ball enters the scene and causes some creative chaos with ice, fire, stone,water and ink.
Have a look at some technical pre-production stuff.
Early drafts:
Early drafts:
Here is a fast prototype of effect I made to figure out if it work or not.
Then I made few minor tweaks and rendered it to sell effect to client. Later VFX guys at Coffeepost used it as a reference for water ID.
Animated circular techno background was made with Cinema 4D. When it comes to this kind of stuff, C4D is way ahead of competition
Produced at Coffeepost
Tools used: Autodesk Softimage, Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Next Limit RealFlow, Maxon Cinema 4D, Adobe After Effects
VFX Artists - Vitaliy Misutin, Victor Malitskiy