Week 3
zjantz This week my group did our first run for capturing our live action plates. Due to some equipment issues, we ended up shooting on the canon mkIII dslr that I…
Final Composite of Grey ball and Baseball
The final composite of my project contains both an integrated grey ball and a CG baseball. The similarity of the profiles of these two objects meant that the same Nuke…
Look Development
The goal of my look development was to rely on a procedural based surfacing process for a seamless workflow between the CG and effects teams. Procedural shaders will optimize the…
Environment Shadows and Integration
In order to achieve believable dynamic shadows that correctly contoured to the form of the CG elements, a camera mapped projection of the environment shadow alpha was used as an…
Integrating a grey ball
Using AOVs in nuke I am beginning to composite video elements that maintain lighting integrity as the object moves through the scene. My CG elements were rendered using Arnold, the…
Render Layers and Lighting
For this project I am going to experiment with the new render layers options in Maya instead of the default system. This weekend I captured live action plates for integration…
Previsualization
One of the main modeling elements of this project is going to be the perfume bottle so I wanted to make sure we had some good previsualization that clearly displayed…
1/11/2023 V420
I used class provided materials to serve as a testing scene before I take my own photos this weekend. Using the cube photograph I lined up a camera in maya…