#year 2 fmp

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Comping in ae

Tay has been working hard refining the particles for both of our shots, I have rendered the pass and taken it into nuke however this is the result, in AE it looked much better using the blending modes and various things.

Nuke:

AE:

This has a bit more of a grade on it but the overall look is much better so I am going to continue comping in ae for this shot only

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interactive lighting

Here’s a first version of the interactive lighting, it definitely looked better when Geraint did it but it’s a start, we have the bump map and idea down, just need to work on particles and refine this model because you can see the black outlines of where things don’t match

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This is just a sort of mood board of something that I feel like the particles will look like

Just reference material 

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I am going to follow this tutorial and change some bits to make it look more like what we want.

This is good reference for the type of particles we want

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Roles

On our last joined project (music video) me and tay basically shared every single role and shot, however on this project we have worked more separated:

When it came to filming, we shared this role equally, we both helped with the camera work and directing. This was completely even.

Here’s a list of what I have done for the project:

Closed box - I have done this shot entirely

(Particles for this shot) - this was an even effort - equally shared between us

Establishing shot - I have done this shot entirely

Skull shot - I have done this shot entirely

Arm veins - I have done this shot entirely

(Tay shared her asset from the other shot with veins in it, however I changed this asset around and animated it myself)

Poverty - I have done the comp work 

Tay made the crack originally and animated it, it went through many different alterations from us both but in the end, we used one of her version in the end.

Tay also did the prep for this shot, she did all the cleanup on this plate

Window shot - I have done the comp and cleanup/prep on this shot

Tay created the matte painting for this shot

As you can see I have completed 3 shots completely by myself, and another 2 I have worked half and half with Tay on.

When it came to pre production, this is all separate because we researched our own shots however when we were developing the idea, I obviously came late into the group but still helped with concept development and planning.

Editing:

I did the offline edit

Tay did the online edit, following the original but including extra sounds and changes that we had made along the project

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This is nearly the finished version of the shot, the only thing that I’m not sure is the bottom piece of the window sill. But, thinking about this and comparing to the real original plate, this would just be the sky reflecting instead of the city. The lightwraps help the effect too.

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Here’s the new painting, the lightwrap is only really effecting the top of the window so I’m going to add more at the bottom.

I’m also going to push the painting back a little more

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Lightwrap

To sink the photo into the comp better I tried to first change where the window was chopped off, this chopped out the grey outline but made it look very fake so instead I’ve used a lightwrap to soften the edges, this is the result and looks so much better!

Before:

After: