The 5 C’s of Cinematography – Camera Angles
This post includes my notes from the chapter on camera angles from The 5 C’s of Cinematography by Joseph Mascelli. My previous notes from the chapter on composition are blogged here. I haven’t read...
View ArticleConcept Sketches/Ideas Development Week 07/08
Week 07/08 – Artistic, Planning and Research My tasks/goals for this week were to finish 3 production design paintings based on the animatic and to design the masked creature and Reymond, the sexy...
View ArticleWeek 10 Maya Lighting, Arnold AOVs and Nuke Compositing
For week 10, the team divided into two segments. Matthew, Sorcha and Andrew focused on the animatic while Kerry and I focused on trying to recreate the house scene exterior. I blocked out the scene...
View ArticleColor and Light Summary
Research and Artistry These are some of my summarised notes from the Schoolism course on Designing with Color and Light by Nathan Fowkes. We should try and keep these in mind when planning our color...
View ArticleMASH Research
Week 18 (2018/01/22) Technical and Research These are some of the videos which I found useful when researching how to use MASH for set dressing. MASH – Placer Node This video shows how to scatter...
View ArticleGuillermo del Toro: Monster Design
Research These are a few videos and articles with advice from del Toro on designing monstrous creatures. These have been sitting in my blog drafts for a few months now so it’s worth looking back on how...
View ArticleRendering and Compositing Look Development
Artistry, Technical and Research Semester 02 Week 04 – 05 (2018/02/19 – 2018/03/04) Artistry These are some renders and composites from the start of semester 2 to get an idea for what the characters...
View ArticleReymond Blend Shapes
Semester 02 Week 03 (2018/02/12) Technical, Research and Artistry I sculpted the blendshapes for our character Reymond. I hadn’t created blendshapes before but Andrew had some great research at hand to...
View ArticleKeith Lango: VTS42-47 Stepped to Polished Animation
Semester 2 Week 7 (2018/03/13) Research These are my notes from watching Keith Lango’s video series on his workflow for a shot of animation. It’s useful to see how much of his workflow focuses on key...
View ArticleScene 03 Púca Animation
Semester 02 Week 06 – Easter (2018/03/05 – 2018/04/04) After Matthew had created the stepped animation for Nami in scene 03 (Reymond’s scene) I jumped onto blocking out and splining Púca’s animation. I...
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