{"id":1819,"date":"2014-12-18T23:53:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T05:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2014-12-18T23:53:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T05:53:32","slug":"dbz-style-disappearing-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2014\/12\/dbz-style-disappearing-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"DBZ Style Disappearing Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past month, I&#8217;ve wanted to reproduce the &#8216;vanishing&#8217; effect often used in DragonBall Z fight scenes. I always thought it was cool and wanted to figure out a way to create it. DBZ just started replaying on Adult Swim from the first episode, and I just purchased the upgrade to Lightwave 2015. Those were reasons enough. Below is the final product.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/114921545\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I went with two characters from Ninjas Tales because&#8230; well, they&#8217;re ninjas. It was fun to revisit those models. The animation done in Lightwave was pretty minimal &#8211; it was basically a kick. Most of the work was done in After Effects, which was used to create the actual &#8216;disappearing&#8217; effect. Throw in a few sound effects, and this short took less than a week to crank out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past month, I&#8217;ve wanted to reproduce the &#8216;vanishing&#8217; effect often used in DragonBall Z fight scenes. I always thought it was cool and wanted to figure out a way to create it. DBZ just started replaying on Adult Swim from the first episode, and I just purchased the upgrade to Lightwave 2015. Those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63,34,118,86],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-after-effects","tag-dbz","tag-lightwave","tag-ninja-tales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}