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December 18, 2009

Motion Tracking example

Filed under: Compositing, Video & Animation — Tags: city, compositing, maya, motion tracking, nuke, PFTrack, vfx, video, visual effects — Bryan @ 5:32 pm

Geometry tracking with PFTrack. Modelling and texturing quickly done in Maya & Photoshop, and the compositing in Nuke.

This is only half of the final project, but the other half isn’t really worth showing off.

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Jessica climbs Everest

Filed under: Compositing, Environments, Video & Animation — Tags: chroma key, chroma keying, climb, color correction, color correction and keying, compositing, greenscreen, ian morrell, jessica, key, keying, matte painting, mountain, mountain climbing, nuke, vfx, visual effects — Bryan @ 1:05 am

Not really, of course. This is my Color Correction & Keying final. Thanks go to my wife for once again generously agreeing to take part in the shot.

I used Nuke for both the keying and compositing, the video was shot with a Panasonic HVX200, and the backplate with a Canon Rebel XT. Thanks to Ian Morrell for the use of his portable greenscreen.

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December 12, 2009

Mental Ray for Maya face render

Filed under: 3d Modeling — Tags: advanced texturing & lighting, fast skin, lighting, maya, skin, skin shader, sss, subsurface scattering, texture, textures, texturing — Bryan @ 9:06 am

For the final project in my Texturing and Lighting class, we were given a head model and told to light and texture it. I really think mine was the best in the class, with the exception of the eyes. One other student blew me away there. (Great work, Tim!) I really didn’t spend much time on them, though; my attention was all on the skin. So here are my final renders:

I still have no idea why he appears to have a flashlight in his mouth in that high-angle shot. I tried adding geometry inside his head to block the scattering, but it didn’t work. I could adjust the level of translucency in his lips, but there might be a time when I want to see that scattering there. I just don’t want to see it as a result of back light.

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