VFX 009 case study/tute

[alim]

20 – Myst footage. Again, a few seconds of myst that I had made a while ago using 3d particles and warping in post. Remember to make ur own stock footage, its invaluable on short turnaround jobs.

[alim]

21 – Composite 2. The myst was composited as a screen over the other footage

[alim]

22 – Overall grade 2, film response and grain. Another LUT to pop things out again slightly, as well as an HSV to get a good film colour response. Followed by a grain to get it all integrated together. Different film stocks respond differently and its good to familiarize how film generally reacts to light and dark and colours. Otherwise you would be paying bucketloads for plugins when you could do it urself. I pumped up the blues, and the magentas, took the reds slightly to orange and did a general value gamma curve to make it respond like film. Since all the elements originated from different places, the grain makes them all integrate by using the one grain motion.

23 – Letterbox. Hey just for kicks u know :P Plus it allows me to do a vertical pan with the hidden portions, meaning I have very cheap camera motion. And camera motion always looks better anyway

[alim]

thats all folks, hope u enjoy

feel free to email me if any qs
alimapar'at'iprimus.com.au (yes, replace the 'at' with an @)

otherwise im here on the forums too

ali*

[Paul Moran]

fantastic ...that was very very cool!! ...if only we could get all our VFXChallenge winners to do this

BTW, i have the winning post ready to go, I am just greenlighting the extra 3 rendernode winners with rendernode before i post it

Cheers mate

Paul

[BlackKnight]

Excellent breakdown alim I liked your end result very much and this a great way to end it all off.

And Paul, yes! It would be nice if we could see more of these. They're great!

Ross

[seantree]

awesome!!! thanks for posting this. it will be very helpful as i am just starting out in the vfx area. thanks and congrats!!!

[Latter Day Saint]

Excellent!! Thank you for posting it....

[lw3d]

18 – 4 Light passes. The 4 sets of lights were separate alpha mattes painted in photoshop and brought into shake. Again, I didn’t waste time trying to get things perfect, and it was a simple paint once and copy affair for most of the lights, knowing I would be changing them in shake.
Each was masked into a colour node and glows were added using my own glow macro. The lights that are occluded (ie the ones on behind the cables on the bridge) had their alphas multiplied by the bridge alpha from step 6 to make them hide.

I wanted to have a natural radiance and a flicker on the lights but time constraints didn’t allow.

Are you saying you composited the alphas with a layer node in multiply mode

[Vfx Gal]

Awesome work.Thanks for sharing the breakdown.

[VFXTalkDotCom]

it would really be great to see more of these moving ahead - we got a lot of promises from the winners of the latest challenges but so far no one has ante'd up and delivered any breakdowns on how they did what they did...