Collaborative Unit | Jim Eaves | Exterior shot 01

Presentation of the brief and final result For this first shot, the brief was to remove the “White Building” letters from the building and replace them for “Endeavour Institute”. We were asked to use the font Didot for the new text. In the following video, we can see the project, including the final version, the […]

Collaborative Unit | The Third Floor | Sesison 1

For this Collaborative unit, we are going to work with the 3D Computer Animation Students to complete a project with The Third Floor. In this first session, Vincent, as representative of The Third Floor, dis us an introduction about what is The Third Floor, what is previsualization and about our project brief. Presentation What is […]

VIDEO ESSAY | Lighting and color in The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover

NUKE Final assessment

Nuke Session 7 | Tracking part 2

In this session of Nuke we will do a cleanup. We will replace the sky, changing it for another one. The other sky should not be really different from the real one , because otherwise we will need to grade it and relight the whole scene. First of all, we will search a big picture […]

Location shooting task

In this session of VFX Fundamentals, we recorded few pieces of footage in order to do a camera tracking. Camera tracking is a technique which consist in creating a 3D environment out of a 2D footage, recognizing different points of reference in the scene, and following their movement along the timeline. In this way, the […]

TASK | Analyze character and story development

The Turin Horse Year: 2011 Director: Béla Tarr Country: Hungary One day of 1882, Nietzsche went out of his house and saw a horse rider hitting his horse because it did not want to move. After seeing this episode, Nietzsche became demented and ill, and stopped to speak until right after his death. This movie tells […]

TASK | Collaborative Reference Footage with 3DCA

In this session, we worked along 3D Computer Animation students in orer to do a collaborative task. The task consisted in helping them recording different shots, key them out and clean them up so they could use it as a model to do a 3D Animation of it. Planning First of all, we had a […]

Nuke Session 6 | Tracking

In this Nuke session we are going to learn how to do a camera tracking. First of all, we are going to distort the image since it has a lot of lens distortion. Therefore, we are going to move the lens distortion to flat it up. We should do a research if we do not […]

Camera trackinmg shooting techniques

In every audiovisual project it is important to make an accurate planning of everything that is going to be shooted and edited. Specially, when applying VFX into a sequence, is really important to know which effects we are going to apply, in order to shoot the footage according to them. In this way, we make […]