Hasta La Motion!

“What if the Empire used planet Earth as a disguise for the Death Star?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3LgIDThv6s

I setup a simple rubik’s cube in a maya scene, made it a active rigid body, gave some gravity and turbulence. Play animation and it simulates fine and fast

Now, I match move a scene and import the FBX into Maya. Then I import my rubik cube animation into this scene and the animation is fine and plays fast.

But the imported scene (rubik’s cube) is too large for the FBX imported scene, so I try to scale and match the camera. The moment I scale, the simulation of the Rubik’s cube becomes very very slow, 1 minute per frame on the viewport??

Is there any reasoning behind this? Is this the right work flow?

After asking around I have found out the best way for a 3d guy to get into VFX is through matchmoving…

I’ve got a few books on the subject and been through quite a lot of tutorials so I’m ready to produce my matchmove reel.

I’m going to apply for positions everywhere (cinesite first, as they’re recruiting matchmovers for world war z I think) but I just wanted a little inside info as to what would be something "standout" on a matchmove reel, i.e what would the person viewing it like to see…?

Thanks for your help guys..