Building demolition test, created in Lightwave 11.6. 1440p HD @DavidRidlen

Uploaded January 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

This was my first attempt at a complex rigid body sim with Bullet and TurbulenceFD. Bullet and TFD are intended to be used in sims under 10 meters in size. But this building is 150 meters tall. Out of the gate, I tend to push a new toy as far as I can, to see where the limitations are. I started out trying to demolish a table, and wound up here.

Created with Lightwave 11.6 Bullet rigid bodies, and TurbulenceFD (fluid dynamics). Composited in Fusion 7. Song is "Flameout" by Lithium Xmas- discogs.com/Lithium-X-mas-

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This is not intended as an accurate re-creation of the WTC collapse. Structurally, it does not come close to simulating the Twin Towers which were also about four times larger. Technical discussion here-
forums.newtek.com/showthread.php?145359-Building-Demolition-Test-Bullet-amp-TurbulenceFD&highlight=demolition

Building demolition test, created in Lightwave 11.6. 1440p HD

$Looper - cell phone created in Lightwave (view at Original res) Please view original res at 2048x1556. These are a few shots I worked on for the movie Looper, demonstrating the result of some manual tracking/match moving tricks I developed over the years- http://forums.newtek.com/showthread.php?94121-Matchmoving-in-Lightwave I modeled, textured, lit, tracked, and did first pass comps of a futuristic, folding cell phone. Created and rendered in Lightwave, and comped in Fusion. There are two other phone shots in the movie that are not shown here. The phone is slightly transparent so I had to also track CG fingers to reflect, refract, and cast shadows on the phone. Each of the four folding panel motions had to be individually keyframed. Tracking the phone was tricky since each of the actors individual fingers were also slightly flexing so there was no reference point within the plate to definitively track thruout a given shot. It was noticeable if the CG phone wriggled inappropriately by even a single pixel. The phone flaps also had to be animated with slightly more apparent weight than the paper card the actor was holding, as the card would sometimes jump in a single frame. The phone was rendered in one pass for comp.$

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