IsaacJDaniel

I had a lot of fun working on this project, with so much variety of shots and work, it kept me excited. Overall I feel I have learnt so much, and created one of my best pieces. 

My Final Piece

The sound track for the more recent ‘The Thing’ (2011) has some great tracks a creating a really creepy mood with the mix of high and lows sounds. It also has a mix of paces. I am going to use a few tracks on my film to capture the mood which is similar in some ways as I took great inspiration from this and the other two films.

All my shots rendered out ready to be edited

For the ending I have created a title to appear. 

These shots take place in a different area to the last place and were heavily CG so it was ok to put a different grade on them, still working with the same film effect from the film plugin. I think they really work, the overall finish really sets the mood.

One sequence of my scene has an intense red light indicating an alarm going off. I really wanted to push the red colour in this shot, so using colourista I pushed the mids and highlights into the reds. I also applied the same film look to all my shots.

This shot was similar to the last shot and was easy enough to add a similar grade to

I really wanted to have a filmic look, so I used magic bullets film, which makes your footage look as if it was shot on film, and you are able to choose from a big list which film you wanted to look like it was shot on. I feel it really helped take that digital look my original footage had. Before I came out of nuke I applied a colour correct node to flatten the colours as much as I could making it easier to colour grade in after effects. When I was colour grading I was really trying to bring out what was important in the scene.

The last bit of work I did was some relighting, something Rosie showed me. By putting my scene onto a 3D card and adding a light I was able to relight my footage helping the overall lighting, making both shots match better also giving it a darker mood.

This shot required a lot of work from roto to clean up. i needed to roto everything that was over the ledge and bring back any of the character that leaned past the ledge. I again split up the arm and head into different sections to roto. To speed up the roto I tracked it by using a track node and tracking his movements on his hand and then on his head. another job I needed to do was the clean up work. I put so many track markers down, mainly because I was worried the track wasn't going to work. Using track markers and the paint node I removed the track markers. To finish up I placed the tracked and rendered back drop in, adding so atmospheric smoke. 

At first I thought I could use a luma key for this shot, but It completely failed and cut into my character way to much, so Instead I had to completely roto him out for 150 frames. This was a long process but I found nukes tools are really helpful and there are many different techniques and shortcuts to hep get a clean roto. I much prefer it to after effects. I split my roto up into the head, body and legs. I split it up further into different shapes I could see within these making it much easier to roto around. 

After adding all the snow, mist and lights this shot has really come to life and I am extremely happy with it.

I think when its all in motion It will come to life, Possibly with some mist and heavier snowfall.

This was the final composition, I managed too get it working, all it need now to bring it to life is some moving elements such as heavy snowfall and lights. 

After struggling so much with this matte painting composition I began doing some quick mock ups to see how it was working with my shots, I was getting closer, So after seeing Chris one last time I think I managed to figure out a good composition that would work with photos.

I began trying the new composition Chis had helped me with but I was again struggling to find the right images to make it work using my photos as I didn’t quite have the right photos to make it. I tried getting an image from the internet but I still felt it didn’t work, I also really wanted to stick to the images I had and keep it fully original.