Digital Arts Online has a feature article up about a new commercial that Mainframe has made for Virgin Media’s new show “Rehab”, which shows people’s life shattering in the of addicion.  The clip show people “shattering” as if made from porcelain, then slowly rebuilding themselves.

“We were looking into several plug-ins to solve the shattering effect and, after studying Blast Code for Maya and RayFire for 3DS Max, we quickly decided that we should do most of the project in 3DS Max,” he says.

“RayFire seemed more promising for what we were creating and especially for the particles. Utilizing Particle Flow within 3DS Max has been a saviour for us – today we see it as a useful particle plug-in and it will be integrated in our pipeline for future projects.”

Digital Arts – Features – Mainframe creates smashing VFX for Rehab TV show.