This Tom Cruise with Cameron Diaz comedy action film turned out to be a very fun big Hollywood movie with great Visual Effects and some humor as it makes fun of Action genre.  I worked on the plane crash sequence in the beginning of the film with lighting and Look Development for the airplane as it was flying as well as crashing into the corn field.  Dynamic Animation here means modeling and sculpting an animated growing ground trench for the plane to crash into.  Once I have the ground animated with blend shapes I constrain 1000’s or corn stalks to pivot and fly up in the air as the ground mounds up, as well as dirt and earth chunks that fly up from this same trench motion.

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  1. Jon, nice work ! We did the cockpit instrumentation and simulation work and I’ve had lots of comments of how well the CG flowed together for crash landing scenes.

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