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Month: March 2023
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WEEK8 MAYA
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WEEK6-9 Collaborative Unit
The main focus of these weeks has been handing over resources and making footage, as well as sequences.
There have been a few problems with handing over resource content.
The centre of the model was not right
The model had multiple faces
This added to the workload during the handover.
I also made the material of the radish house with parallax to make it look furry (I like this part). At the same time I realised that I should have created a generic material first and written the interface before creating each material. That would have saved a lot of time and given better results.
At the same time I watched some tutorials on rendering to learn how to handle the render better.
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Collaborative Unit
Basic information about the group
Group members:Kaiyue Wang(me) ,Zeng deng ,Jixuan Chen ,Jiahao Yang ,Jiawe Chen
Topic:
Causality
(Cause and Effect)
Story:
I envisaged many complex stories, but I finally chose the simplest one. It comes from a familiar proverb: no pain, no gain.
The main story is about the main character who plants a star. The star also refers to the dream, and all the efforts the hero makes to achieve it are the sweat and toil that every dreamer puts in to achieve his or her dream.
I hope that this story will bring encouragement and resonance to everyone who is still pursuing their dreams, and that the audience will be able to relate to themselves.
Some vetoed stories：
The Disappearing Companion
Old Li’s old companion has been lost for two hundred years.
Old Li found her from the age of 60 to the age of 80, until she found herself dead
No one is seen alive, no body is seen dead
The day after his grandson’s full moon drink, his partner went to the usual place to buy and wash the vegetables, ring the stove and put out the dishes.
The day after his grandson’s first month of marriage, his partner bought and washed vegetables as usual, rang the stove, and served them on a plate. When his partner called out to Lao Li, the sweet and sour chops were shiny and oily, the scaly and greedy white rice was steaming hot, and the rice was overflowing with fragrance. Old Li smashed his mouth and said, “Where to go?
Go on, come and eat!
The door opened and the breeze blew in. Old Li looked up and squinted, his back was slightly bowed in yellow and black trousers, with short curly hair. The company’s newest product is a new product, a new product that has been developed by the company. The son said dad, you first go to the neighborhood neighborhood around, maybe in the dance, if it is dark still no one, we will call the police, the police computer probe a chase, people will find. The sons and daughters-in-law are all here, all gathered behind the police, staring at the screen. The old companion came out of the neighborhood, calm and collected, turned into a small road, an unnamed alley, connected to another small road, the camera only shines to see the entrance and exit, the old companion walked into, slow, no out. The people are amazed, but the old Li wondered, his own and his partner childhood sweetheart, the door is right, although not so much to each other, but at least with food and sleep for more than 30 years, how to say leave it? It took a lot of effort to post the poles, looking for the east and west, all kinds of media, microblogging WeChat, the beginning is still looking for people, and then is a paranormal event, horror stories, live long see, the world’s top ten unsolved mysteries. After a few months, the crowd dispersed and was made into a documentary as a suspicious case. Only old Li was left, three meals a day, tasteless and empty-headed, day in and day out, reflecting on the bland days of the past when he couldn’t dig a red face. The only thing I remember is that one time, I was so anxious to drink borscht that I put an astrophysics book that my partner loved to read under the hot pot, picked up a spoon to fish for red sausage and dripped a few drops of eggplant-flavored red soup on the book.
I’ve been cooking without salt for three days.
At the end of the twenty-first century, after twenty years of distraction, Old Li is still in his prime.
He had no more breath left. Before he died, he gathered his children and grandchildren and issued a final
“No matter what parallel universes or quantum worlds, you must
help me find this old woman, Feng Xiuzhen.
If you cannot find her, let your children and grandchildren continue to search for her.
Find her and burn a letter to tell me.
Old Li was lucky enough to have a writer, Li Moyan, who wrote about it in a book and the book was widely circulated, finally replacing the will of generations. But the old woman, who had left, remained silent. Feng Xiuzhen a kind face, standard and old the impact of the disappearance of events stretched over a century, has become the world’s most famous face. Surveillance videos from two hundred years ago are still reproduced online, the first person to go missing under the eyes of all the people in the ancient world!
There is evidence for this.
Strangely enough, there are people who keep threatening to say they have seen the missing person, releasing some accompanying photos of a group of people from far away, in which a face that seems to be the boss Feng when morning across the street from a distance but no face-to-face encounter, a check of the surveillance, and can not find traces, people are on edge, the worldThe Disappearing Companion
Old Li’s old companion has been lost for two hundred years.
Old Li found her from the age of 60 to the age of 80, until she found herself dead
No one is seen alive, no body is seen dead
The day after his grandson’s full moon drink, his partner went to the usual place to buy and wash the vegetables, ring the stove and put out the dishes.
The day after his grandson’s first month of marriage, his partner bought and washed vegetables as usual, rang the stove, and served them on a plate. When his partner called out to Lao Li, the sweet and sour chops were shiny and oily, the scaly and greedy white rice was steaming hot, and the rice was overflowing with fragrance. Old Li smashed his mouth and said, “Where to go?
Go on, come and eat!
The door opened and the breeze blew in. Old Li looked up and squinted, his back was slightly bowed in yellow and black trousers, with short curly hair. The company’s newest product is a new product, a new product that has been developed by the company. The son said dad, you first go to the neighborhood neighborhood around, maybe in the dance, if it is dark still no one, we will call the police, the police computer probe a chase, people will find. The sons and daughters-in-law are all here, all gathered behind the police, staring at the screen. The old companion came out of the neighborhood, calm and collected, turned into a small road, an unnamed alley, connected to another small road, the camera only shines to see the entrance and exit, the old companion walked into, slow, no out. The people are amazed, but the old Li wondered, his own and his partner childhood sweetheart, the door is right, although not so much to each other, but at least with food and sleep for more than 30 years, how to say leave it? It took a lot of effort to post the poles, looking for the east and west, all kinds of media, microblogging WeChat, the beginning is still looking for people, and then is a paranormal event, horror stories, live long see, the world’s top ten unsolved mysteries. After a few months, the crowd dispersed and was made into a documentary as a suspicious case. Only old Li was left, three meals a day, tasteless and empty-headed, day in and day out, reflecting on the bland days of the past when he couldn’t dig a red face. The only thing I remember is that one time, I was so anxious to drink borscht that I put an astrophysics book that my partner loved to read under the hot pot, picked up a spoon to fish for red sausage and dripped a few drops of eggplant-flavored red soup on the book.
I’ve been cooking without salt for three days.
At the end of the twenty-first century, after twenty years of distraction, Old Li is still in his prime.
He had no more breath left. Before he died, he gathered his children and grandchildren and issued a final
“No matter what parallel universes or quantum worlds, you must
help me find this old woman, Feng Xiuzhen.
If you cannot find her, let your children and grandchildren continue to search for her.
Find her and burn a letter to tell me.
Old Li was lucky enough to have a writer, Li Moyan, who wrote about it in a book and the book was widely circulated, finally replacing the will of generations. But the old woman, who had left, remained silent. Feng Xiuzhen a kind face, standard and old the impact of the disappearance of events stretched over a century, has become the world’s most famous face. Surveillance videos from two hundred years ago are still reproduced online, the first person to go missing under the eyes of all the people in the ancient world!
There is evidence for this.
Strangely enough, there are people who keep threatening to say they have seen the missing person, releasing some accompanying photos of a group of people from far away, in which a face that seems to be the boss Feng when morning across the street from a distance but no face-to-face encounter, a check of the surveillance, and can not find traces, people are on edge, the world
The world was in a state of panic.
In 2125, public space surveillance systems were perfected and the Global Privacy Act was amended several times, leaving no dead space in key sectors, public and private properties, toilets and bathrooms, indoors and outdoors. In the year 2200, with the advancement of science and technology, the colonies on Mars and the Moon were populated and the age of the solar system was ushered in. 2248, the world was united, energy was shared and there was no distinction between races. Mankind has never been more powerful.
In 2453, a singularity bomb, the weight of a star at the fraction of a millimetre, destroys the Sun in an instant and brings the end of humanity. 8 minutes and 18 seconds later, mankind spends its last moments of joy, the sun and moon are lost, the carriers roll, and the Earth is stripped of its shell. For billions of years afterwards, the Earth wandered needlessly around the galaxy
In the year of the Earth, 52,500,198 A.D., the sub-civilisation, having annihilated the rest of the civilisations in the universe, begins to formulate plans for a cosmic reboot. The universe, after ten billion years of growth, war and change, is finally about to be reborn
A and B, members of the sub-civilisation’s cosmic reboot command, are busy recovering matter from the universe.
A: Please confirm that all mass in this universe has been recovered
B: 99.99% has been recovered.
A: No.
A: No, we must ensure 100% recovery before we can reboot. B: Searching for remnant material.
Position not confirmed.
A: How much energy do we have left for the search?
B: 37% left, which should be enough for another traversal
A: OK, keep looking, and make sure you succeed.
The world was in a state of panic.
In 2125, public space surveillance systems were perfected and the Global Privacy Act was amended several times, leaving no dead space in key sectors, public and private properties, toilets and bathrooms, indoors and outdoors. In the year 2200, with the advancement of science and technology, the colonies on Mars and the Moon were populated and the age of the solar system was ushered in. 2248, the world was united, energy was shared and there was no distinction between races. Mankind has never been more powerful.
In 2453, a singularity bomb, the weight of a star at the fraction of a millimetre, destroys the Sun in an instant and brings the end of humanity. 8 minutes and 18 seconds later, mankind spends its last moments of joy, the sun and moon are lost, the carriers roll, and the Earth is stripped of its shell. For billions of years afterwards, the Earth wandered needlessly around the galaxy
In the year of the Earth, 52,500,198 A.D., the sub-civilisation, having annihilated the rest of the civilisations in the universe, begins to formulate plans for a cosmic reboot. The universe, after ten billion years of growth, war and change, is finally about to be reborn
A and B, members of the sub-civilisation’s cosmic reboot command, are busy recovering matter from the universe.
A: Please confirm that all mass in this universe has been recovered
B: 99.99% has been recovered.
A: No.
A: No, we must ensure 100% recovery before we can reboot. B: Searching for remnant material.
Position not confirmed.
A: How much energy do we have left for the search?
B: 37% left, which should be enough for another traversal
A: OK, keep looking, and make sure you succeed.
reason：Difficult to produce
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WEEK8 Collaborative Unit
Collaborative Unit Presentation.pptx (sharepoint.com)
The PowerPoint produced for use in the report
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Project Reflection
This collaborative project revealed many problems, not only in the group work but also in myself.
We had three main problems with this group work.
- we did not have a clear timeline and ddl, which also led to an unbalanced workload
- we did not make the formatting requirements clear enough when matching resources
- we did not have enough communication and adjustment sessions
The first issue was particularly important in the group work, as we were all organising the resources ourselves and producing them ourselves. So sometimes we didn’t know exactly what other people were doing, and we didn’t know when to transfer resources. This time we were lucky that we all had a prototype in our heads and no one was behind on their resources, otherwise there would have been major time management problems and we would not have been able to finish the project. Also, because we didn’t know exactly what each other was producing, some people were doing a relatively small amount of work, while others were working overtime. This is not really conducive to teamwork.
So in the next group collaboration I will take the initiative to ask for this and get everyone to work out and organise the workload together.
The second problem was that neither of our groups knew much about what the other was producing. I didn’t fully understand the nature of 3d animation and they weren’t sure exactly what I wanted in terms of model quality and requirements. So at the beginning I just told them that I needed the model mapped and in fbx format, which led to problems with single-sided models going through the mould and multiple points in the animation that prevented the animation from being imported successfully. If I had told them this at the beginning it would have saved everyone time and been more efficient.
So I decided to put together a document with possible problems and to record the problems I hadn’t anticipated this time and send it to them in advance for the next collaboration.
The last problem was more my own. We were all communicating one-to-one in this group, rather than discussing and coming to a conclusion together as a group. Although I was aware of this problem, I did not raise it and chose to accept this method of communication. I also did not take the initiative to increase the frequency of communication, which led to us ending up with some misunderstandings of each other’s resources and projects.
I need to get over my submissive nature and take responsibility for communicating when I think I need to organise, rather than ignoring the problem by thinking that the project can continue even if it does.
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WEEK8 NUKE
This week we talk about MotionVector,I think it’s a bit like a normal clean up, but the difference is that in this clean up we’re not dealing with a steady shot and a steady object that doesn’t move, but more of a marker point on the body that changes in light and shape。
Before we started working on the clean up we learned about a node called regrain, because when we made the clean up we may have thought we had done a good job on the final output, but in fact we could see in the other exaggerated colour gamut that we had overlooked some of the pixels. This node helps us to make our keyed clean up more realistic to the original shot.
We then started to use different ways of doing complex clean up. we could have tracked our roto manually, but this method is obviously not very clever and would only be considered if all other methods failed.
We then introduced the multiplication and division of merge and blur together to create the effect. Because the blur acts as an averaging of the surrounding colours, it makes the effect more realistic and natural.
But all of this works on the premise that we need to manually adjust the roto, or use a single track. so one logically simpler way to understand this is to use tracking points and panning, which ensures that the roto comes out in the same position as the face. I think this method achieves good results with constant lighting and the structure is very easy to understand.
Similarly we can give each point a trace and then rotopaint it separately.
There is also the reverse thinking, using blur and edge blur to reverse fill the mask after making the trace can also work well.
Next we talked about a very important part called the uv map, which I think is closer to the dynamic stmap, which gives information about movement. So we can use this node to clean up the face and add textures. It is also possible to get motion blur. However, it is important to note that it has certain requirements for the shot and does not fit all shots perfectly.
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WEEK7 NUKEHOMEWORK
This week’s assignment is to work on Pretty Sister’s green screen, with a focus on hair placement
I started by looking at the whole shot as per the previous process. there was nothing green in the foreground and the only thing that needed attention was the treatment of the hair. So I relaxed the range in the edge key to get more detail.
Observe the hair detail and alpha
Colour readjustment: because I thought it was strange to have warm highlights on a green background, I added colorcorrect and saturation to correct the colour deviation in the hair part after matching the colour with grade
After the process I compared the results given by the teacher and found that although the hair was natural, some of the detail was missing compared to the teacher’s video. So I repeated the comparison, at first comparing the difference between the key and the final effect and adjusting some of the values. Then I found that the alpha mask shape matched the final effect.
This left two possibilities.
- the edges of my colours were too dark and blended into the background
- the keylight in the toning section took away too much detail
I then adjusted the keylight processing and grade in the agreeing frame in comparison to the toning, and found that the alpha shape was exactly right, it was the content that was not filling the masked section completely. So I reworked the blackpoint and whitepoint values of the keyligh to achieve a result that was not too different from the original video except for the colours.
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Career Planning（not finished yet）
RotoArtist
Roto Artist is a position that tests a background in graphic design, painting, animation and related art, and requires proficiency in Nuke, Silhouette and other related software. In layman’s terms, the workflow of a Roto Artist is to solve tricky processes for pre-production to avoid the need for rework by the film crew or 3D production staff, which can greatly reduce production costs in the film and television industry and allow for more scope for pre-production. Working as a roto artist is a great way to develop my communication skills, as well as my ability to grasp detail, colour, light and movement. Working as an integral part of the film, effects and post-visual process will be a great way to develop my work ethic and teamwork, and my undergraduate experience in digital media will allow me to become more proficient in the use of relevant tools.
At the same time, I think the work is very basic, but there are many details to consider and it requires a serious attitude and a lot of patience. The attitude and patience that I have gained from this training will also help me to learn and develop in other positions in the future.
In the workflow, the main focus is on drawing Roto masks and cleaning up the material. In the film industry, there is a high level of precision and detail required, and I have learnt the skills and expertise to do this core job very well. Rotoartist is also a similar workflow to CG effects, so I can develop my skills in character effects and scene effects.
3D layout artist
A 3D layout artist is a key role in the workflow of 3D film, animation and even game CG. Whether it is a game or an animation, you need to be well versed in the language and details of the post-production process, and it is a profession that places a premium on experience. The duties of a 3D sub-screener are usually based on the director’s intentions, and according to the director’s intentions, he or she can independently design and draw a sub-screen storyboard that meets the needs of animation/cg as a basis for guiding the next mid-production step, which will test the basic skills of perspective and lens sense, and can exercise my team’s ability to organise the lens language, and express the plot through the accurate grasp of the lens, which can give full play to and express my excellent creativity and A good recipe for a good sense of image. A good 3D animation sub-screener will also be involved in scriptwriting meetings, providing suggestions and sketches for story development, adjusting the script in response to the director’s comments, sub-screening and some pre-voice work, which will test my art skills and expertise and will quickly hone my sense of camera work.
At the same time, I find this career very appealing because it is so closely related to the presentation of the story. Presenting a two-dimensional story in three dimensions is also another level of creation. And this sense of world creation is what makes me so passionate about it.
Compositor (VFX)
A VFX Compositor is a broad job category and some would be called a Visual Effects Artist. Depending on the industry and the size of the company, the responsibilities of a VFX artist can range from entire shots to various small elements in a large set. As part of a broad visual team, a visual effects artist may work with a team of two or three people (or even single-handedly) or hundreds of people to create hard-to-film, expensive or impossible-to-film digital images, and visual effects are almost ubiquitous in film and television, even in real-world based shows. The position is highly collaborative, with most of the work day spent creating, and the rest of the day generally spent in meetings, communicating with the team and creative, and receiving feedback. The work day may start with meetings which will test my ability to work as a team and collaborate. It is my responsibility to maintain clear, concise and organised project documentation and workflow to improve efficiency between phases.
Every day is a new challenge in the role of Visual Effects Artist, the scope of work varies and the next assignment may come from an area where I have no experience, so I will grow as a Visual Effects Artist to become a wide ranging person, which is part of the fun of the job, never getting bored and always having something new to explore. It’s a great way to learn problem solving and attention to detail, to hone my strong artistic skills and to enrich my technical expertise in software including but not limited to Nuke, Zbrush, Maya etc.
I am also very proficient in using game engines such as unity and ue and can create certain effects. I think this will be an advantage for me in my future work. This will allow me to learn and produce not only film and television effects, but also game effects.
Reference
https://www.screenskills.com/jobs/one-of-us-prep-roto-artist/
https://www.screenskills.com/job-profiles/browse/visual-effects-vfx/compositing/roto-artist/
https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Career/roto-artist-career_KO0,11.htm
https://www.cgspectrum.com/career-pathways/roto-artist
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WEEK7 NUKE
This lesson focuses on how to better handle edges in green screen compositing to retain more detail, and we talk about a few different ways to do this. We also talked about how to preserve the green in the foreground when using keylight (using roto).
We also talked about some of the content of keymix and the content of groups.
There was a lot of content in this class so I didn’t take many pictures, I had to pay attention to the content