March Showreel.

This showreel has most of the work I have done over the past year whilst freelancing, I made sure to use alot of my time to complete my contract work as I felt this was in a way, more important than my uni work, so I hope the contract work I have done can at least count a little towards my final grade.

Final words and scene

So the project is over. First things first, I regret making what I have created this year, and I wish I stuck with my initial ideas that I proposed in the first place, as I feel that they would have helped me develop more skills I require to be a compositor, although what I created did let me work on using NUKE and developing some motion graphic and painting skills.

Although not creating what I feel I should have, I have developed skills throughout the past year by doing freelance work for various short films and music videos in the industry, working remotely from home. I have learnt alot, and I only feel that if I had created something more live action based for my 3rd year work, I would be in a little bit better position.

However if it wasn’t for me doing this course, I don’t think I would have come to the decision to become a compositor, so I thank it for that. I don’t hate what I have created, but I don’t love it either, but I don’t mind, because I have gained more experience over the past year by freelancing than I would have done if I had devoted all my time to my uni work.

Anyways, thanks to my tutors, my friends, people who I have worked for in the past year, I’m going to continue to advance as a compositor and hopefully land my first inhouse compositing job within the near future, I am determined and I will keep working as hard as I can to get what I want.

Here’s the spawn of me and my 3rd year studying animation:

 

Final touches in After Effects

I exported everything from NUKE into a TIF sequence, then brought it into AE so I can add the final stuff like a letterbox, lens flares, titles, and sound.

I names my little film/clip, ‘FutureStuff’, quite simply because its just a clip of stuff in the future, how I would expect it to be

I will post a link to the final shot in coming posts, and also a run down on everything I’ve done, including my overall thoughts on this project, and how I have progressed this year.

Another update

I’ve added some motion graphics etc to various tv screens, still a few more to go, I’m going to add some movement to the far BG buildings to bring some life to it and add depth.

Also added a letterbox.

Update on script

Getting there…

Just need to add animated billboards etc now, and some other little things.

A comp im working on.

This is just something I came up with yesterday when bored, the animation is terrible I know but it was just rough so i had something to comp in. I still need to fix the wall patch on the left as it shakes a little.

Character Rig: http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/dewi

I’m considering making a little film with this guy, probably after uni, which could be fun.

Cleaned up script.

I thought my nuke script looked a bit messy before so after taking some advice on twitter, i think it looks lovely now :3 haha.

Theres a quick still from my movie there too.

NUKE – Started projecting

Just a quick look at the size of my script, and the 3D view to show my 3d projections of my city.

Quick render from NUKE

I’m going to brighten the shot a tad more soon, but this is just the first stage before any work has gone into it.