The last test looks the best by far but still isn't what I am looking for.
Friday 30 September 2011
Research and Tests: Spell Tests
I've done a number of spell tests, none of which I am entirely happy with, but at this stage I am simply experimenting with particles and fractal noise within Maya and After Effects. Hopefully something will starting looking good. I stress, these are no where near the finished effects!
The last test looks the best by far but still isn't what I am looking for.
The last test looks the best by far but still isn't what I am looking for.
Research and Tests: Wizard Sequence
On Monday I filmed in the green screen studio some footage which I am using for a test for my wizard sequence. Currently I am working on using particles in Maya and After Effects to produce a specific spell effect. I'm modelling it on a couple of videos I have seen, but I am not quite there yet in terms of style.
I'm also working on a flying shot. If I can get these to work, they will be great shots which I can produce a matte painting for.
Thursday 29 September 2011
Week 1 of Minor Project A
As part of my Minor Project A, I have opted to keep my Production Journal on my blog. This site shall now contain my planning, testing and execution of my projects for my final year at university. All these posts will be tagged with "Minor Project A" so there is no confusion as to what goes with what.
I hit the ground running with this first project, having spent much of my summer generating ideas, I managed to book the green screen studio on the first day back to film some footage for a test.
This year it is important for me to showcase my skill set to create a showreel. My aims are to show I am a competent rotoscoper, compositor and matte painter. For this, one of my vehicles is to create a wizard/Harry Potter film sequence. As of yet I have not created a storyboard, but I wanted to collect some footage to test the VFX required if I am to continue with this avenue.
I hit the ground running with this first project, having spent much of my summer generating ideas, I managed to book the green screen studio on the first day back to film some footage for a test.
This year it is important for me to showcase my skill set to create a showreel. My aims are to show I am a competent rotoscoper, compositor and matte painter. For this, one of my vehicles is to create a wizard/Harry Potter film sequence. As of yet I have not created a storyboard, but I wanted to collect some footage to test the VFX required if I am to continue with this avenue.
Sunday 4 September 2011
Doctor Who - My Inspirations
Today I read that fans on twitter are sending abusive messages to Steven Moffat. Honestly I don't understand this. Generally I don't understand abusive behaviour at the best of times but this took the biscuit.
For me Doctor Who was a major inspiration, and one of the reasons I decided to enter into the world of Visual Effects. As a six former, young and somewhat naive, I was studying chemistry and opting for a very safe career path as a science teacher. This was who I was when the announcement that Doctor Who was returning to our screens. As a much younger person, I had grown up on classic science fiction reruns, Doctor Who included, so this breaking news sent me into a giddy overload which ultimately resulted in my exclusion from most social groupings. At this point in time I had a love for film particularly visual effects, but to me it was "computer magic" that I would never understand, let alone be able to one day do.
Fast forward a few years and I'm at university, a very good one, studying chemistry and generally unhappy with my life. It was at this time I started building websites for fun and sometimes money, and managed to get sucked into the magical world of the Doctor Who online community. My levels of Geekery massively increased ten fold, but something amazing happened. I discovered photoshop. With this knowledge, practice and development of artistic flare, I learned I could thrill people with my digital art work. I started making banners for other people's websites, members of the Doctor Who community would set me challenges to create wallpapers and blends to meet certain criteria. It was then that I realised chemistry was not the way forward.
The rest as they say, is history. I got myself some formal IT qualifications and went back to university to study visual effects. One day I hope to work on the Doctor Who series. That is my ultimate goal. Of course I would like to work on film and become a millionaire, swan around in a convertible and generally be loved by all, but honestly I would trade this just for one day working on this iconic show.
Doctor Who is a show for the whole family, it frightens children, stuns us with it's beauty and takes us on a moral and emotional roller coaster on a week by week basis. What other show in the world could do that? Russell T Davis brought this show back from the dead. Steven Moffat took it like an olympic relay baton and is racing to take it to new heights of incredible. If haters bring down this show, they would have destroyed something monumental. There are so many of us out here who still love it.
For me Doctor Who was a major inspiration, and one of the reasons I decided to enter into the world of Visual Effects. As a six former, young and somewhat naive, I was studying chemistry and opting for a very safe career path as a science teacher. This was who I was when the announcement that Doctor Who was returning to our screens. As a much younger person, I had grown up on classic science fiction reruns, Doctor Who included, so this breaking news sent me into a giddy overload which ultimately resulted in my exclusion from most social groupings. At this point in time I had a love for film particularly visual effects, but to me it was "computer magic" that I would never understand, let alone be able to one day do.
Fast forward a few years and I'm at university, a very good one, studying chemistry and generally unhappy with my life. It was at this time I started building websites for fun and sometimes money, and managed to get sucked into the magical world of the Doctor Who online community. My levels of Geekery massively increased ten fold, but something amazing happened. I discovered photoshop. With this knowledge, practice and development of artistic flare, I learned I could thrill people with my digital art work. I started making banners for other people's websites, members of the Doctor Who community would set me challenges to create wallpapers and blends to meet certain criteria. It was then that I realised chemistry was not the way forward.
The rest as they say, is history. I got myself some formal IT qualifications and went back to university to study visual effects. One day I hope to work on the Doctor Who series. That is my ultimate goal. Of course I would like to work on film and become a millionaire, swan around in a convertible and generally be loved by all, but honestly I would trade this just for one day working on this iconic show.
Doctor Who is a show for the whole family, it frightens children, stuns us with it's beauty and takes us on a moral and emotional roller coaster on a week by week basis. What other show in the world could do that? Russell T Davis brought this show back from the dead. Steven Moffat took it like an olympic relay baton and is racing to take it to new heights of incredible. If haters bring down this show, they would have destroyed something monumental. There are so many of us out here who still love it.
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