In this third and last part, we’ll finally present the product of our work: two spots for the “International Dance Day”, event supported by the Unesco that occurs the 29th of April every year.
We are going to explain something about the animation of the various elements in the videos.
First commercial:
Second commercial:
Have you feel the desire of getting closer to the visual effects world? This video has been created thinking about those who have no idea of doing what film makers and VFX create day after day. We want to start sharing the interest in this kind of themes.
This tutorial, made by two students whom “Computer Generated Effects” is not their strongest academic quality are trying to communicate to others (as them) the way in which with practice is possible to have a great result (little by little) and a brief introduction to the the software that will help amateurs to get involved in this world.
So, now we can start our short but useful trip to bringing a Star Wars light saber to a Samurai’s fight scene (from a movie: Sucker Punch). Enjoy it and remember that being dummy is not bad at all, is doing nothing to be better what kill people’s ideas, potential and creativity.
Our best regards for you who wants to learn about visual effects.
BY:
Juliana Oñate Berrocal
Maria Camila Botía Bocanegra
Budweiser beer fan-made commercial
INTRODUCTION
A long time ago film titles, the graphic image or sequence at the opening of a movie, were simply hand-illustrated cards photographed and inserted into a film.
Today, they are much like a mini-movie showcases the art of graphic design with filmmaking. Although short and not-always sweet, film titles serve a number of purposes. Besides introducing the title of the film and the main players that brought it to screen, they raise audiences’ expectations, evoke the film’s overall mood and set up the story. Film titles are, indeed, the primary impression an audience will have a film. As they have become more integral to film and a genre of design all their own, a growing number of spectators have started to enjoy the opening of the films.
In this mini documentary we’re going to explore the use of mirrors in cinema visual effects.
In fact from the beginning of the century mirrors have been employed like a practical instrument for all sorts of useful ends:
In general, mirrors have been a well used and economic resource in cinematography, especially when matte painting and digital post production didn’t exist; today is almost disappeared, unless someone want to try the romanticism of it!
Enjoy
Michele
For our master graduation project we produced a Game Of Thrones Intro inspired video as a tribute to Italy and to all GoT fans.
With the use of computer graphics and 3D modeling softwares, we recreated 6 of the most famous and loved italian cities.
The aim of our thesis is to analyze the impact of new technologies and social media on the diffusion of tv series-related contents produced by fans.
CHIARA SAPIO, MANOJ ROLLO
Have you ever wanted to control the time? Accelerate it, stop it or even cut it? After seeing this tutorial you will be able to do it!
Techniques such as time-lapse and hyper-lapse, both based on the stop motion animation, permit to manipulate the flow of time in our videos, representing long events in a short time, doing complex camera movements, and other interesting effects.
This video wants to give you some tips and suggestions for planning and shooting your time-lapses, even if you’re new to the technique or have just little experience.
In this second part we are dedicated to the study of the characters and the production of the animatic. So, we focused on the study of the movements and expressions to associate to each character, on the music composition, even if temporary, because it will be later replaced by the real one, and on the scenes composition.
This is a two-part video including a short film and a brief tutorial concerning one special effect: inserting actors into previous shooting of any kind.
The web format, like the one chosen for the previous assignments, aim to entertain the viewers while introducing them to one technique of the movie world.
In this tutorial we’re going to see some simple effects with Trapcode Particular, of Red Giant and Plexus of RowByte.
Trapcode Particular
Trapcode Particular is a plugin that allows to create organic 3D particle effects; In the first example I used it for disintegrating my own hand.
Basically the plugin works on a dynamic mask that gradually moves from the left side of the frame to the right one.
There are two ways for doing it, in the first one you’ll need a green screen in order to take off the background and disintegrate only the hand; in alternative, you can try to illuminate the background in order to keep it flat, without shadows; in this way you will see the particular effect only on the hand.
Plexus
Plexus is a simple plugin for rendering the particle and create all sorts of interesting relationships between them based on various parameters.
This plugin works with different tracked points of light, creating relationship like lines and shapes between them;
In the first case, I created two groups of point of light, one on the left hand and one on the right, so I linked them in order to simulate a spider’s web.
In the second case, I created and multiplicated one hexagon for creating a dynamic 3D shape, between the character’s hands.
Mind to use a shirt (or a background) in contrast with the color of the lines.
Michele Cattani
Front Effects - VFX curiosities and Making of 