For this project, the requirements are to have at least 2 shots of a car, and have some effects to go with it. To begin coming up with ideas, first I looked on the internet at car commercials.
One of the first things I noticed is that one of the main particles in most of these commercials is dust, so having that as a particle seems fairly unavoidable. Some inspiring parts of these commercials include the third one on the first video (around the 3:30 mark), where a guy drives against obstacles popping up in the road. That includes debris particles, and seemed interesting.
Another interesting idea for particles would be sparks. I’m not sure exactly what would cause sparks, but perhaps very fast driving, or a broken down car?
While thinking about ideas, I also wondered, why have a real car? It could also be a photorealistic toy car! Like this Barbie commercial:
I think it would be cute to have a toy car in the real world-so everything, even blades of grass, would look huge next to it. This could lead to interesting, bigger dust particles (like maybe a ball fell on the grass and the toy car is trying to escape?), or even just grass blowing. I like creative ideas like this based off of this commercial:
I’ve also been looking at car models from cgtrader.com and turbosquid.com, but am holding off on making a decision until I get put into a group.