This is the first animation test for a potential new short film, ‘The Unknown Soldier’.
I used some stock mo-cap of a skipping rope cycle, and after a bit of cleanup with the feet contacting the floor I parented the rope handles to the hands and then hand animated the rope rotating around the body.
Lighting was added using the hdri, a directional light from the main window and 3 point lights […]
This is the first test render from Nuke and it’s already looking great with very little additional compositing.
Rendered from Maya using Arnold Renderer. Composited in Nuke.
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I downloaded some stock mocap of various actions and then attached it to the model to test and see how the character would react.
There was a lot of cleanup for some of the test shots I want to use but overall it was great to see it working and it was better than I could ever do myself as an animator.
The character rig was the only discipline I didn’t do. This […]
This is the look development for the soldier character from the short film ‘The Unknown Soldier’.
Modelled in Maya. UV in Headus. Textures in Photoshop. Lighting and Rendered using Arnold and Maya.
A quick breakdown for the giraffe scene.
Disciplines: Modelling – Lighting – Texturing, UV Layout – Rendering – Compositing.
Software: Maya, Mari, Headus UV, Arnold Renderer, Photoshop, Nuke.
The backplate was shot using a Canon 550d.
Disciplines: Modelling – Lighting – Texturing, UV Layout – Rendering – Compositing.
Software: Maya, Mari, Headus UV, Arnold Renderer, Photoshop, Nuke.
The backplate was shot using a Canon 550d.
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I do a lot of panoramic photography but I wanted to try producing a panoramic HDR image so I could control the background and foreground exposures without losing any detail. A 2 day camping trip around the stunning hills of Karkai Mountain in India was the perfect setting to attempt this for the first time.
I took 4 photos with 9 bracketed exposures [-4 -3 -2 -1 0 +1 +2 +3 +4]. A total of 36 images!
Each set […]
This image was taken at the start of the trek around Karaki Mountain.
The journey to get here from Mumbai was a 3 hour train ride, followed by a 4 hour taxi ride, followed by a uncomfortably hot and cramped final 20 minute drive in the back of this van. All of this before a day’s trek to the top of the mountain in 30° heat.
After dropping the 6 of us off at the base of […]
During my stay at ILM, I used their in-house specific Camera and Lighting pipeline while working on Spectre, the latest Bond film.
I produced vfx cameras, layout and lighting for the intro ‘Day of the Dead’ Sequence.
Above is a short video from the bond onset team discussing their experience in Mexico.
There is no video vfx breakdown from ILM for the sequence so click here for a link to an interview with the VFX Supervisor […]
While at ILM London, I produced Cameras and Layout using their in-house software, Zeno, for the fight sequence between Falcon and Ant-Man.
There is no video vfx breakdown from ILM so above is a TV spot trailer featuring the 2 characters.
Click here for a more indepth look at all the vfx produced on Ant-Man, by all the vfx vendors courtesy of FXGuide.