"Simple" Set Extension

I thought this would be a simple shot to do…

I taped it with a handy cam on the end of a tripod that I held in my hand and it extended out from my hip. I was really surprised at how “smooth” it was, but when I got in to Shake… yuck, I tryed to track this thing at least a dozen times over the last week, some times with tracker nodes, other times by hand with not good results.

I should not I was not “match moving” the church to the camera, but rather stabilizing the footage, to get it, I used 2 different stabilized and smooth cam trackers. It is stabilized, smoothed, stabilized, and then smoothed again. And even then the results are not fantastic.

After I put the church and sky in, and color graded, I placed the camera movement back in to the shot.

Although the shot is not the way I would like it, I am fairly happy with the results.

The Big Fall

More on this latter.

VFX Reel

I have come in need of a VFX Reel, not the best put together really quick, hope you like it!

If you want to download it click here.

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Amazing Math: Moving up, up, and away!

Well, I am been moving along at a pretty good speed,  except the last 2 days, were I spent all the time on ONE shot. It was a lot of render time with a simple animation out of Blender.  But it worked out well, and looks really nice I think.

Here is some of my progress:

Update

Wedding DVD Cover Art

Well, I have finally finished the wedding. As of last week, I sent them a copy of the DVD to approve. With that out of the way I can get back to working on Amazing Math.

TT And Bebo explore a ruin made in blender, composited and keyed in shake.

Things are moving along quite well, I have almost finished the first few shots VFX (Ruin, Treasure Room 1 and Arctic) and editing the hole video on to the time line for the first time. The running time looks to be over 20 min.

Summer Update.

Well, I suppose I should post eh? Well I have been working on getting one of my summer weddings edited and finished, looks like I will get it done next week to, so not to much new to post.

Something not really Movie Related, I made a mockup Narnia Poster the other day, here they are side by side:

I made it in about 1-2 total hours, maybe less. Intoresting thing though, I didn't use Photo Shop or even the Gimp. I am so much more comfortable in Shake. So I used Shake for it all! Cool eh?

Gosh I Love Spaghetti! Here is what my node tree looked like for this one.

Board Wars

Board Wars was shot over 2 days, with me my brother and a friend. When my friends originally found out I was getting in to video and ok at it, they were constantly thinking up videos for me to make. I usually didn't make them for various reasons, most notable was that they were no good (sorry guys!). However the ideas kept coming when they learned I could do some VFX, like green screen. Well, Board was is the product of actually making one of those videos. MY friend directed, or rather, made up the story as we went and told us what to do, I told him if it would actually work or not, my brother acted, I shot it, and then edited it. It shouldn't have worked, and it didn't work very well. But, for a short film as long as it is, shot the way it was, it worked really well.

This was one of the projects I were I cut my teeth on learning 'keying' and other special and visual FX. Watch after the credits for a before and after bit on the film. I was also just learning the art of folly, and voice over. It was a good learning experience for me.




Of interest: We didn't get it all done on the first day, and that night we had a good 'ol dump of snow , thus the "ah man it snowed" line.

Amazing Math, Houses

I have spent the last few days learning to build a house in blender. It has been highly educational. I am getting close, and will soon begin turning my one house in to a whole neighborhood! And then cities! This scene will look very cool when it is done! Exciting! The video is a test with the model as I have it today (composited in Shake).

I am using this tutorial: http://www.vimeo.com/785249?pg=embed&sec=785249

Amazing Math Report

Well things are going slowly here, but some things have been done. Here are some images of things I have been working on:

Amazing Math Green Screening

Just thought I would post a image comparing Our first days filming and The most resent one...

 

As you can see the second TT (taken first) has a green screen behind him that is kinda dark, so I upped up the exposure 2 stops, and now it is to bright, it actually blew out in some places, and is bit yellower than I would like, so next time I will try 1 stop up!