Fun with a tennis ball canon aka rigid body dynamics!

Mark is teaching a RealFlow 5 course for fxphd and always tries to make it interesting for the participants.  His latest class involves a tennis ball canon gone wild at a garden pinata party.  You’ll see some great rigid body dynamics in this super basic render, where the rigid body dynamics of RF5’s new Caronte solver is the real star.

The scene concept is: during a garden party, a giant tries to steal the pinata containing treasure, and a hero character uses a tennis ball cannon to smash the pinata before it can be stolen. The cannon then goes berzerk, shooting balls everywhere resulting in total garden party chaos! The big grey spheres are markers for the shoulder (upper one) and hand (lower) of the giant bad guy.

Mark is teaching a RealFlow 5 course for fxphd and always tries to make it interesting for the participants.  His latest class involves a tennis ball canon gone wild at a garden pinata party.  You’ll see some great rigid body dynamics in this super basic render, where the rigid body dynamics of RF5’s new Caronte solver is the real star.

The scene concept is: during a garden party, a giant tries to steal the pinata containing treasure, and a hero character uses a tennis ball cannon to smash the pinata before it can be stolen. The cannon then goes berzerk, shooting balls everywhere resulting in total garden party chaos! The big grey spheres are markers for the shoulder (upper one) and hand (lower) of the giant bad guy.

play pinata party!

Anyone taking the course is in for good time!  Let us know how you liked it.

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