VFX Major Project

Planning For Major Process

On my Major project i had 4 different ideas.

1. Having a spaceship flying around central London.

2. Tracking a real car and adding extra body to it.

3. Have a news report about a Spaceship.

4. A shot of 2 characters them talking then all of sudden they see a space ship flying over them.

I have picked to complete the 4th idea.

After thinking about my concept. I wanted to create space ship so i though few ideas and drawn them then finally came with this plan for my space ship.

Wire frame

Poly Shade

Texture and lighting

Final Image

This is the Small Ship which will be compisted to the film clips.

Final stage of Spaceship

Text Shoot

This is a small preview of my project. This is a test shoot of the film as well.

Plan for the final result

Filming Step

Select the location – Empty car park or a park.
Plan a shot – mid / wide shot
Camera step up – Canon 5d mkiii, Audio mic and actors.
Setting up the camera – Set the WB, ISO and the shutter speed to get a clear view of sky.
Explain the scene and the script to the actors.
Try couple of takes
Then do final shot.

Tracking

Select the final clips.
Render them to tiff image sequence
Track with 3d equalizer min 25 tracks
Then export trackers, lens distrotion and obj.

Compositing

Use Nuke to composite
Lens Distortion
Composite the 3d and 2d insert the track info to 3d
Colour correct
Make scenes
Test render
View and examin the test render
Final out-put

MotherShip Design

This wasn't in the oringal plan but when i faced few problems i choose to change my script. This is a large mother ship which will be flying beside the earth and scene 3 you will see the small ship exiting this.

Scene 1

This is my work flow for the 1st scene, I have used card to show the background . In this work flow if you look close on left side top i have created sphere and few nodes of noise and a shuffle node those nodes are the basic for the earth 3d object. then i have used RGB lighting to illuminate the highlight of the earth and the transpaent layer over earth then the darker area of the earth. After completing those flow down the nodes. I have used shuffle node to show the lgithing and the colours such as ground and the cloud then water. Then finaly i added the 3d scene. i used ABC file to render 3d object from maya then exported the texture and i n nuke i used readGeo to get the 3d object and then i projected the texture over the 3d.

The final Scene

This earth was fully created in nuke using 3D space.

Scene 2

On the scene 2 the small craft is deployed from the main ship to the earth. I wanted to show the amosphere entry but didnt had much time to crate that.

Scene 3

This is the 1st scene which starts with film composed.

On this scene i have used same method as other scenes but i think the space ship didnt fit perfectly to the clip i tried bluring the ship to equal as background but it look different to BG. but other then that the ship was colour graded and colour corrected to match the background.