#milestone1a

on september the third I encountered my first problem. I had just learnt how to import videos into unreal through the media player, but the overall goal was to key out the green to make a green screen. When ever I tried to use Chroma key in unreal engine it would crash. Here are screen shots of everything that was going wrong :  https://n9691910cgtoolkits.tumblr.com/post/165062665014/1-i-have-my-film-in-the-correct-project-folder-i 

I asked my tutro about how to fix this issue, I had to use media textures and in the nodes create my own green screen. as seen here: 

Milestone 1A - AUGUST 9TH

This week was based on render passes and using them to add an effect based on distance with After Effects.

Time Spent:

30 minutes spent on setting up the grey box

1 hour spent animating the camera and cylinder, working with the sequencer

1 hour spent in After Effects, adding the blue tinge to distant items and the video in the sky

30 minutes spent on the reflection

Basic Geometry, Camera Animation, and Lighting

After following a tutorial (previously posted in references) about basic geometry brushes in UE4, I tried it out for myself and learned some additional things while making the box.

Time Spent:

1 hour spent in Unreal editing geometry, lighting, and camera animation

1 hour spent in After Effects working with render passes

Basic Animation Experiment

While exploring UE4 I needed to take the time to become familiar with the new interface and navigation controls. For this I played around with a bouncy cube, using knowledge I had from previous 3D editing software to find the graph editor.

This was a catch up task to get myself better acquainted with UE4.

Time Spent:

1 hour spent researching videos and following starter tutorials

30 minutes spent animating the cube

10 minutes spent exporting the video and uploading it

A short animated sequence exported from UE4, Models created in blender.

In the process of creating the scene it was decided that a more dynamic camera action would show off more of the scene and as such a camera crane object was used.

From initial investigation, using the depth pass in after effects has a great dea of versatility. Aside from simply compositing basic shapes as was done in the milestone render, the depth pass can also be used to create realistic lens focus, to simulate exceptionally dark shadows as shown, which could be useful for either creating a darkened foreground such as a cave or creating exaggerated shadows for other purposes, or to composite 2d effects over 3d effects for a more realistic output.

Most of the time spent on this milestone was in after effects, as that was the program with which I have the least experience, which in comparison to the modelling and UE4 work which I found quite easy was initially difficult to figure out.