Thursday, January 28, 2010

BG object test

I did a little test to c if the obj in the bg is moving correctly

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Leave design Test

Planting leave in CG
I did some teste with the leaves had some problem trying out the looks of the leaves.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Blocking out a test of the track

Did some match moving with the help of the software the school is using, Sinteyes. i had to edit it in Aftereffects due to the aspec ratio of the video from the video camera, its 1.33 so meaning in any case if i should work on something like this i should have it set to a aspec ratio of 1.

So i had to change it in Aftereffects by setting the diamension from 1440 x 720 to 1980 x 720 then change the aspec from 1.33 to 1.

Then i exported the video clip to a jpg squence so that i can work on it with Sinteyes, if i am to import a video file into Sinteyes then i would have to take note of the framerate. To keep things simple i use image sequence.

It took me the whole day looking through the many videos that i have taken, and really had a hard time trying out all of them, trying to get a good match move in Sinteyes. I realize that i should have kept the motion blur on the videos to a very minium, i knew it would be a problem but i guess my hands arent very steady, i could still see some motion blur on my footage, most of the time when the software had problem making the tracking is because of the blurring of image in the footage. The software tracks base on artifates, so if the image is blur it cant really track well.

After i track the image i place a cube in the middle of the scene within Sinteyes, just to see if the cube is sliding or not. If it is, its not a good track. Then i exported the track into a maya file and a obj file. After which i convert the jpg sequence into iff so as to allow maya to use it as an image sequence. I put a few more boxes in maya because i plan to create something in the background so i need to do some kinda of a test to see if it works.



Heres the video:

Video of the carpark

Did some video shoot of the life footage that i will be using for the comp, its an empty carpark near my friends house on the 20th Jan2010. Spent most of the afternoon there filming, most of the morning filming another carpark near my house, both of which is under a very hot sunny day sun, because I needed the sunlight for the shadow reference. Hope in the end it will pay off ^^



Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Baby Shot

VFX --- Baby Shot

hi, i am now learning how to create VFX, had to do a "Baby shot" my very 1st VFX short clip. I am now at my very 1st stage of the production, still at concept stage. Everythings really cool so far, i was made to come up with 10 ideas to do for this very 1st VFX project, its a small project that is spread over 2 weeks and i am really not sure how much i could do in 2 weeks but what wows myself was i was able to come up with 10 ideas in less than an hour, and some of them were ideas that can be done within the 2 week time span. Cool.
I am goin to b makin an alien tree or some kinda plant growing out from the ground, 1st i had to design the look opf the plant and its just the 1st official day of my Spec.
Here are some of my concept art