VFX Practical Work

VFX - Showreel and Breakdown

I've completed various VFX shots over the course of this unit, and I decided to create some reels of all of my work from this unit, and...

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May 21, 20211 min read

As another quick experiment, I decided to try again with creating a light patch on the door to help integrate it better into the scene. I...

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May 21, 20213 min read

A Case Study on Audience Feedback in the VFX Industry Audience feedback is important for any project. If a project isn’t popular then the...

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May 19, 20215 min read

Taking the feedback I received into account, I decided to experiment a bit with roto shapes on my door to see if I could add any shadows...

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May 19, 20212 min read

I received feedback for my portal shot, which has been a huge insight into what a viewer of my work thinks about it. I say this because...

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May 18, 20213 min read

Continuing on from where I left off last time, I had just gotten the card into a good place and decided to try and roto out the bottom of...

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May 8, 20214 min read

Continuing from where I left off with the 3D tracking, it was now time to add in an image. Using the new section of the node graph, I...

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May 3, 20213 min read

The final practical task in the VFX unit I have to complete is a 3D tracked shot with an image of a door somewhere in the scene. Since...

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May 3, 20213 min read

Previsualisation is a great way to plan out how a VFX shot is going to look and progress. It can be done either with 2D images or with 3D...

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Apr 28, 20214 min read

The next exercise I did involved rotoscoping, which is done on complex, moving objects. This is most commonly used when applying FX to...

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Apr 16, 20215 min read

Now that I've had a quick tutorial in Nuke and am a bit more familiar with how the interface works and how to create simple animations...

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Mar 5, 20217 min read

Over the course of the second VFX Unit of this course, I'll be using the programme Nuke to create a showreel of our work this year. This...

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Feb 26, 20214 min read