Post-School VFX

Monday, December 20th, 2010 @ 7:18 pm

blood, compositing, dolph lundgren, graveyard, icarus, movie

post-schooling projects, personal and for-profit

This was more of a motion-graphics or compositing project than anything, my roommate (classmate from school) and I took photos of a gravestone prop in a local field and replicated them in, adding another hill in the background, some 3D gravestones, a fence and a tomb in the background. I matte-painted a city and sky with distant mountains, and using Shake made the city lights flicker a bit. I moved the camera in slowly throughout the course of the shot with different-distance objects moving at different speeds to emulate parallax. The movement is super subtle and basically unnoticeable unless it’s pointed out, but it was a cool exercise.

Watch Final Graveyard on YouTube.

After school and the above project, and with tons of help from an old teacher/adviser, a few of us got work on a small film that came into town. Icarus was a Dolph Lundgren action movie that needed some enhancement. We added blood spray, sparks and bullet hits, debris and smoke and other elements to a collection of shots. It was a good experience.

Watch VFX Reel Winter 2009 on YouTube.