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Please tell me how to erode characters into ash for a movie (as in the movie darkest hour)

The pictures show how the characters are getting eroded in the movie The Darkest Hour.

Please Help Me Out!!!

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I held a class on the spring SOP a while ago, here's a neat and efficient way on how to do stuff like that, have a look at the scene file. Of course you can speed that up a lot, haven't spend too much time optimizing it and you can combine it with common particle effect approaches, like point cloud erosion over time.

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Manu

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not exactly the same but heres a tutorial for a similar effect, should help point you in the right direction

http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/side-effects-houdini/create-an-amazing-pulverize-effect-with-houdini-initial-setup/ [cg.tutsplus.com]
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You can also take a look at a new tutorial from cmivfx.com
http://www.cmivfx.com/tutorials/view/460/Houdini+Directable+Particles [cmivfx.com]

It costs 60 dollars.. but I think its worth the buy!
All tutorials from cmivfx are class! Bought a few of em..
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