Don't just Animate, Simulate!
Create Highly Realistic Destruction and Deformation Animations in less time while increasing quality.
Now you can use the same advanced simulation technology that high-end visual effects studios use to bring your artistic creations to life.
The DMM Plugin for Maya allows you to do high quality finite-element-based destruction right inside of Maya. Simulate anything from jelly to diamond. Control your physical reality by changing plasticity, toughness, shape preservation and many other physically simulated parameters.
Imagine building a character rig that has DMM flesh that moves in response to kinematically driven bones, or a railroad trestle where the timbers flex and crack under the weight of a passing train. Use your imagination to create animations with DMM with subtle effects that are impossible through manual animation or simple fracture/shatter scripts.
Simulation-Driven Animation with DMM is creating a revolution in visual effects. With over 30 feature films using DMM for key destruction shots ranging from the destruction of entire cities to intricate fracture of a bullet going through a tree, DMM is well-suited for whatever you throw at it.
DMM Plugin for Maya 1.2 for Maya 2015 and 2016
This version of the DMM Plugin is fully functional but limited to 2500 simulation elements. Purchase to unlock unlimited simulation elements.
DMM 1.2 adds material regions, floating license management, bugfixes and solver improvements.
Examples of how the DMM Plug-In can be used to create simulation-driven animations.
DMM in High-End VFX for Movies
Michael has used DMM for spectacular VFX destruction in movies like "A Good Day to Die Hard", "Red 2", "Man of Steel" and "Warm Bodies".
DMM R&D Deconstruction
Sylvain Nouveau used DMM for his destruction effects for an amusement ride.
Wood Simulation
Another great piece by Vando Studio with DMM destruction done by Marco Rossi. Here, we see a giant termite chewing on a DMM wooden beam which splinters and cracks. The wood simulation is achieved by stretching the tetrahedral elements, allowing for anisotropic material properties.
VFX Deconstruction: Pirates
More work by Sylvain Nouveau for the Pirates amusement park ride. Using DMM for the cannonball impact. You can see how the DMM shot was augmented with particles and other effects passes.
Tet Density Studies
Here, Sylvain shows how a shot is created by using progressively denser DMM tesselations. Splinters and increased DMM density are added only when you are satisfied with the movement you are trying to achieve.
DMM Landslide
A commercial for the Samsung Galaxy S with DMM Dynamics work by Jean-Francois Macé. DMM is used for the giant black thumb-mountain. Particles are combined with a high frame rate to get a mountain landslide effect.