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Maya Nuke VFX Fundamentals

Critical Reflection

Through the study of Maya and Nuke in the visual effects fundamentals this semester, I already have a certain degree of understanding of the process and methods of special effects production. At the same time, I have a certain degree of mastery of the two software Maya and Nuke. to complete some relatively complex special effects work, model building, and video compositing. Through the study of Maya, I have basically mastered the skills of model building in Maya and the design of model animation, and I can design some scene animations. At the same time, I also read a lot of literature on the special effects production industry during this semester, which further deepened my exploration and understanding of the field of special effects Through the study of Nuke this semester, I understand the basic workflow of Nuke, and I have a very good understanding of the roto tool, tracking tool, and some video synthesis methods in Nuke, and it also stimulates my very strong interest in Nuke, because I studied film and TV production before, and the mastery of Nuke will undoubtedly bring me closer to making excellent cinema, so I think Maya and Nuke learned this semester will be of great help to my future career Planning plays a very important role, and at the same time, I am going to continue to explore more complex and fantastic special effects production. In the future study, I will also further deepen my understanding and application of various special effects software, so as to lay a better foundation for future film special effects production.

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Project Balloon Festival

The Creation Process

During the creation process of the project Balloon Festival, I used the model of the hot air balloon that I built in Maya for compositing material.

At the beginning of building the idea of the Balloon Festival project, I want to create a harmonious and beautiful picture between man and nature, and I also hope that the picture is more biased toward the fantasy world. The inspiration for the creation of this project mainly comes from fantasy film and television works such as Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones.

Therefore, I want to create a fantasy world like a fairy tale. First of all, the saturation and vividness of the things in it will be high to create this fantasy visual effect. At the same time, some little things in nature should be used in a very natural way and composited into the screen. So, on this basis, I first replaced the sky through the Roto node and changed it to a brighter and clearer sky background. Then I added some birds in the sky to make it more natural.

After finishing the background, I composited the hot air balloon into the project and gave it a trajectory, and I also added an elk on the uphill. After that, I added a Northrop Grumman B-2  Spirit swooped down to the screen to add some thrill to the project and then synthesized a flying dragon flying over the screen to add some fantasy to the project element.

After the composition of the object is completed, I adjust its color parameters and color grade all the objects to make them blend into the picture. In the end, I added a soundtrack to the project, which seems to be the beginning of a magical journey, so as to match the fantasy elements in the picture and the overall picture style.

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Nuke

Nuke Rotopaint Clean up

In this task, the cloning technique of nuke’s rotopaint and cornerpin,match-move in the tracker node was used to clean up and change some details of the image sequence to achieve our purpose.

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Nuke

Planar Tracking

The poster on the wall is replaced using the nuke’s planar tracking technique. At the same time, we also used the color-correct and color-grading techniques we used before to make the poster blend more naturally with the scene.

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Nuke 2D Tracking

This week we used nuke’s 2d tracking tech to create and modify the interface of the phone.

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Nuke

Nuke Color

During this week we used a variety of nuke’s color grading tools’ nodes to make some adjustments to the tonal unity and blend between the composite objects and the background, which I think is crucial to the final result of the film and TV composite.

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Rotoscoping

In this project, we use the nuke roto tool to frame the running man for further modification and compositing, and we also used the tracker tool for the selection of the bridge.

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City

In this video creation on the theme of urban exploration, I filmed a short bus trip in the first-person narrative, recording the landscape along the way。

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Nuke

Time

This set of pictures is to fit the theme of “Time” through the timeline of sneaker design. These four sneakers were designed in the 1980s, 1990s, and after 2020. From the changes in these sneakers’ design, we can see the changes in people’s aesthetics of footwear over time.