This week I use the shadow that through a spotlight in nuke scene to compositing the shadow below the spaceship on the river and also use the split channels to color grade the ship to match the environment.
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Thesis Proposal Structure
- Research title or question
- Key words
- Introduction
- Literature review
- Research design, methods, and schedule
- A brief outline of each chapter
- A draft chapter
- Bibliography
This week I finish the old phone model’s texture
This week I finish the second model of the group project – the coffee table
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This week I finish the spaceship model and test serval light conditions for the compositing of the personal project.
First of all, I used a drone to legally shoot over London as the material I needed for post-compositing. And then I use Nuke camera tracking to do the match move for the video.
This week, I finish the UV map of the old phone model, and it divides into three parts, one wood materials UV map, and two metal materials UV maps.
I sifted through the aerial footage that I have taken with the DJI drone in the past and selected the video with the most suitable lighting conditions and shooting height for the subsequent compositing work.
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Thesis Proposal Topic
I would like to study how actors and post-production special effects and animators can work together more efficiently to produce better works in this era of advanced digital technology and its widespread use in film and television productions, and how they can further integrate their acting skills with the virtual environment.
From the actors’ point of view when they are now supported by green screen and the Unreal Engine background, and use these technologies, which have been used extensively on film sets, to raise their acting skills to a higher level so that they can perform more naturally and realistically without the influence and limitations of these special effects environments.
From the perspective of post-production effects artist and performance animator, after capturing the details of the actor’s performance, how to complete a more natural and smooth performance animation while retaining the actor’s own performance characteristics, which requires the animator to be proficient in animation and understand the art of film performance at the same time, so as to better cooperate with the actor to create a better performance in the film
Key Issues and Debates
How actors use today’s advanced computer special effects technology to create their own unique screen image.
How to make the actor’s performance more natural and realistic in cooperation with special effects equipment and special effects artists to achieve a high degree of credibility.
What challenges does the increasing use of De-aging in motion pictures nowadays pose for the actor community and how should they respond.
How the special effects artist can maintain the same style as the actor’s performance in the post-production stage and further improve the performance level of the work through his own skills.
How actors and post-production effects artists should work together to produce better results in the film.
The film I will mainly look into for De-aging in motion pictures in The Irishman (2019)
In this steampunk group project, I’m a look dev artist, mainly doing the modeling and texture work for the old phone, coffee table, and pipe system on the wall.
Old Phone Model