Spider Assignment
Computer Animation, Digital Art, Visual Effects
2011
Spider Assignment, 3D integration in live action
  • This is the Spider Assginment that I did for term 4 at VFS, This is also my first project of integration using Nuke. They gave me the model and rig of the Spider, I did everything else; shading, shooting of plate, tracking, rendering and composition. My biggest challenge with this project was the moment when the spider is coming outside of the mirror, I had to deal with a lot of passes, for example; The shadows of the spider inside the mirror, outside of the mirror and the reflection.  For the mirror effect I used a STMap node with the UV map, then I modified the UV's with radials flares and noise.

    Time             : 3 Weeks
    Camera        : Sony PMW-EX1
    Tracking       : PF Track
    Shading        : Maya
    animation     : Maya
    Rendering    : Mental Ray 32 bits Workflow
    Compositing : Nuke
  • This is an image of my Nuke project:
    • I put all the passes in channels (Not shown in this image)
    • I bring all the channels to the same tree
  • In the next section I show the general breakdown of the passes. I did the same process for the 3 spiders.
  • AO Pass
  • Shadow and AO on table Pass
  • AO & Shadow Pass merged into a channel
  • Diffuse Pass
  • Reflection Pass
  • Specular Pass
  • ID Pass
  • Light Pass