On
this movie, we had to create an avalanche in 3d. We used hardware particles
(for the main avalanche) and instances for the blocks of snow 'emitted'
by the avalanche.
A team of 20 CG artists (2d/3d) have worked during one month to fake up to 30 shots. (It's a lot of work with (always) so short time to make it!!)
We have rendered up to 600.000 hardware particles, and hundreds of instanced particles (objects) to re-create a 3d avalanche.
A test shot of particles (made by Particle Man: Laurent Borenstein!!)
Here is the making-of I promised months ago about faking one shot of that movie...
And here is the link of Mikros image to see what we've done.