12/27/2023 0 Comments Indiana jones face melt![]() ![]() Overall, I was pretty impressed with the Intel i7-6950X Extreme Edition CPU. The Intel ComputerĪ few words on the Intel hardware I got to try out. In the next parts of this tutorial series I will cover how to improve the shape of the melting geometry, how to texture the face, how to render it out using the Mantra renderer and how to composite it all together using Adobe After Effects. While this looks pretty cool already, we still have a little further to go to achieve the final face melting VFX. Therefore I decided it was finally time to learn Houdini and create the iconic Face Melt VFX from Indiana Jones. With so much power at my disposal I really wanted to push the limits of what the computer (and myself) were capable of. Intel® Core™ i7-6950X Processor Extreme Edition CPU. ![]() Intel offered to sponsor me with a fully built PC to try out, keep and to talk a bit little about my experience with the machine as part of the tutorial.įollowing are the specifications of the computer they sent me: The campaign introduces the latest Intel i7 Extreme Edition CPUs and the 750 Series SSDs to film makers and VFX artists and showcases how they can help media creators throughout their workflow. The video is sponsored by Intel as part of their VFX Creator campaign. Many decades later I got to re-create the face melt effect myself using Houdini and Adobe After Effects. The effect was achieved by filming melting wax figures and speeding up the footage for the final shot. ![]() No matter the cause of their deaths, I think we can all agree those power-hungry devils got exactly what they deserved.Ever since I first saw Indiana Jones – Raiders of the Lost Ark, I thought the face melting scene at the end of the movie was one of the coolest special effects I had ever seen. If the Nazis in “Raiders” were exposed to the highest possible levels of radiation possible - say, when they opened a sacred, mythical Ark allegedly containing the power of God - it would be entirely possible to see their skin burning off immediately, perhaps down to the bone. One of the victims reportedly had his skin falling off, after it blackened and blistered. It’s not an isolated incident either: In Japan in 1999, two people were killed and many more hit with radiation after an accident at a fuel plant involving overloaded levels of enriched uranium, the World Nuclear Association says. The most affected members of the crew, on a submarine with an overheating nuclear reactor, had swollen and deformed faces, with burns all over. If the 2002 thriller “K-19: The Widowmaker” (also starring Harrison Ford!), based on a true Soviet-era story, taught us anything it’s that radiation sickness is disgusting and painful. ![]() Surely there must be some fast-acting environmental agent that could melt someone's skin off?Ī small exposure could cause peeling skin, among other side effects like vomiting, but extreme exposure to nuclear radiation obviously comes with extreme versions of those symptoms. OK, we’re getting warmer, but this is still a pretty rare condition and wouldn’t act immediately. which may lead to multiple organ failure and death.” Any one of a number of different bacteria could cause the condition when it enters the body, often through an external cut, scratch or injury of some sort. The National Organization for Rare Disorders says if the condition is not quickly treated with antibiotics, “the patient may develop toxic shock syndrome. Maybe the Ark infected everyone on the scene with bacteria that causes necrotizing fasciitis? The more commonly used terminology, flesh-eating bacteria, is pretty self-explanatory: This bacterial skin infection quickly kills soft tissue, eating away at the skin and the tissue below the surface, and can be fatal if left untreated. It’s so rare that only one in a million people in the United States has the skin disease, so it probably couldn’t have killed the villains gathered in the climactic Ark scene. The Nazi leaders in “Raiders” were hit with burning streams of light (and spirits) coming out of the Ark, so perhaps their skin rapidly melted away thanks to XP? Maybe, but it’s not likely. It hit the news a couple of years ago when it was found that a large group in a small Brazilian village was suffering from the skin disease, which prevents the body from repairing sun damage as it does in healthy people. The closest answer in terms of appearance might be xeroderma pigmentosum, a rare genetic condition that causes the skin to look like it is melting away when it comes into contact with ultraviolet light from the Sun. Nothing could have that effect on the human body, right? Well, setting aside the fact that Indy and his love interest/pain in the butt Marion Ravenwood were left untouched and that the lower-ranking Nazis present at the time actually died by explosion: yes and no. ![]()
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