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Wed, 23 Apr 2025 10:41:34 +0000

Moonju Youn wrote a new post on the site Moonju's Blog

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 06:55:00 +0000

FMP – Final VideoFinally, I managed to composite the full video for my FMP. Since it doesn’t require any sound effects, I didn’t add audio or background mus […]

Moonju Youn wrote a new post on the site Moonju's Blog

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 18:47:18 +0000

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Yifang Liu wrote a new post on the site LIUYIFANG

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 15:15:38 +0000

WEEK 9 FINAL WORK Works Profile:In the earliest days of humanity, an alien species made contact with Earth and appointed a number of elites as […]

Moonju Youn wrote a new post on the site Moonju's Blog

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 16:01:00 +0000

FMP – Simulation Edited motion clip using Mixamo animation For the final scene’s animation, I initially used Mixamo animations, but I felt they weren’t s […]

Yi Bo Chen wrote a new post on the site MA_VFX 23/24 Beacher

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 21:07:30 +0000

FMP Element 2 ThesisThesis_WIP_v12_submission_BCDownload

Yifang Liu wrote a new post on the site LIUYIFANG

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 14:36:01 +0000

WEEK 8 Adjust particles with nuke compositingweek08Download

Yifang Liu wrote a new post on the site LIUYIFANG

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 14:34:47 +0000

WEEK 7 Swirling clouds and magic particle productionweek07Download

Moonju Youn wrote a new post on the site Moonju's Blog

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:04:00 +0000

FMP – Troubleshooting I’m still facing the render problem I encountered last week and haven’t been able to fully resolve it. When I created a test scene and ren […]

Moonju Youn wrote a new post on the site Moonju's Blog

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 19:04:50 +0000

FMP – Particle Test & Motion Graphics Rendered through IPR Checked on Redshift render viewer This week, I worked on creating the disappearing effect in C4D and encountered […]

Yi Bo Chen wrote a new post on the site MA_VFX 23/24 Beacher

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 11:56:53 +0000

FMP Element 1 – Chapter 4 Post-Production (SFX)For sound effects, all of […] “”

Yi Bo Chen wrote a new post on the site MA_VFX 23/24 Beacher

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 11:48:49 +0000

FMP Element 1 – Chapter 5 Final ThoughtsAll Together Now 🙂 After months of work, here is the final result. Although it is only one minute and there are still many mistakes, I am still happy with the outcome, and I hope the next project will be better. Reflections In conclusion, I have learned much and recapped many lessons from this project. I think there are three main takeaways for this FMP. Firstly, I think planning could be better. I was a little too ambitious at the start of the project, as I wanted to do many things within a short period of time. I think I was too comfortable with just doing FX, and I forgot that other departments, such as storyboarding, animation, and compositing, also require time to complete. Consequently, I had to change the story halfway through the project to lighten my workload. If this was a group project, I think that the initial idea of the project would be feasible. Secondly, I could have done the animations and compositing better. However, that being said, I think I am a little better at it now. Furthermore, doing the whole workflow by myself made me appreciate animators’ and compositors’ work. This would help me plan the work schedule better as well. Lastly, I am really glad I got to try Davinci Resolve for compositing because I am really attached to how smoothly the workflow complements Blender 3D and other DDCs. Although I didn’t manage to explore crowds in Houdini, I still got to recap pyro simulations, which is still nice. […] “FMP Element 1 – Chapter 5 Final Thoughts”

Yi Bo Chen wrote a new post on the site MA_VFX 23/24 Beacher

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 11:44:37 +0000

FMP Element 1 – Chapter 3.6 Production (Compositing) […] “”

Yi Bo Chen wrote a new post on the site MA_VFX 23/24 Beacher

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 11:43:50 +0000

FMP Element 1 – Chapter 3.5 Production (Lighting & Rendering) Lighting Setup The […] “”

Yi Bo Chen wrote a new post on the site MA_VFX 23/24 Beacher

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 11:42:59 +0000

FMP Element 1 – Chapter 3.4 Production (FX) Jet Trails For […] “”

Yi Bo Chen wrote a new post on the site MA_VFX 23/24 Beacher

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 11:42:10 +0000

FMP Element 1 – Chapter 3.3 Production (Motion Graphics) Shot002 – Planetside […] “”

Moonju Youn wrote a new post on the site Moonju's Blog

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:43:50 +0000

FMP – Matchmove and Particle Test S02 Tracking_v04 Last week, I received a reply from Gonzalo about the tracking issues with the problematic scene, but he mentioned it’s n […]

Yi Bo Chen wrote a new post on the site MA_VFX 23/24 Beacher

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 17:15:34 +0000

FMP Element 1 – Chapter 3.2 Production (Animation) The animation is […] “”

Yi Bo Chen wrote a new post on the site MA_VFX 23/24 Beacher

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 16:43:08 +0000

FMP Element 1 – Chapter 3.1 Production (Modelling) Fighter The […] “”

Yifang Liu wrote a new post on the site LIUYIFANG

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 18:32:36 +0000

WEEK 6 Adjustment of landing smoke and making of trailing smoke For the process of making trailing smoke, I refer to this YouTube tutorial Firstly, I need to create a circular sheet and then add a […]

Moonju Youn wrote a new post on the site Moonju's Blog

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:27:18 +0000

FMP – Screen ReplacementLast week, I focused on green screen extraction and screen replacement. There are four shots, and I managed to complete three of them […]

Yifang Liu wrote a new post on the site LIUYIFANG

Sun, 27 Oct 2024 21:32:28 +0000

WEEK 5 CAVE SCENE AND AE SCREEN This week I’m going to create the shot of the spaceship landing, and since I already finished the scene outside the cave last week inside […]

Moonju Youn wrote a new post on the site Moonju's Blog

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:20:00 +0000

FMP – ExperimentRoughCut_v01 After the previous filming, I was able to film the additional footage mentioned in my last post. I then edited a rough cut […]

Moonju Youn wrote a new post on the site Moonju's Blog

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:24:00 +0000

FMP – Filming I filmed the background footage first in the city center. Based on the test footage from my previous filming, I chose Piccadilly Circus and […]

Yifang Liu wrote a new post on the site LIUYIFANG

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 12:48:38 +0000

WEEK 5 SPACESHIP texture AND CAVE SCENE First I imported the model into sp and baked the maps at the same time. I experimented with different textures, but went for […]

Yifang Liu wrote a new post on the site LIUYIFANG

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 20:46:55 +0000

WEEK 4 spaceship shockwave and whole story and cave scene 故事发生在人类诞生的最初时期，一个神秘的外星种族曾与地球建立过秘密联系。这些外星生物具有强大的繁殖能力和适应性，能够通过控制宿主来扩展势力。随着时间的推移，这段历史被埋藏大多数人都不知道。The story takes place in the earliest days of hum […]

Moonju Youn wrote a new post on the site Moonju's Blog

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 12:35:00 +0000

FMP – Storyboard & Animatic After refining some details, I finalized the storyboard. This functions more as a reference for animatic than storyboard itself, so it might […]

Yi Bo Chen wrote a new post on the site MA_VFX 23/24 Beacher

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 20:37:56 +0000

FMP Element 1 – Chapter 2 Pre-Production Reference Mechs S […] “”

Yi Bo Chen wrote a new post on the site MA_VFX 23/24 Beacher

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:45:59 +0000

FMP Element 1 – Chapter 1 Ideation & PlanningBriefElement 1: (pdf or […] “”

Moonju Youn wrote a new post on the site Moonju's Blog

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:30:00 +0000

FMP – Concept Refinement This week, there was a presentation in class, and for this, I developed a storyboard, though it wasn’t fully enough to build out the entire s […]

Yifang Liu wrote a new post on the site LIUYIFANG

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:31:10 +0000

WEEK 3 houdini ocean simulation and camera This week I finished the main ‘spaceship floating’ and ‘spaceship driving over the ocean’ animations. Firstly, I need to dist […]

Moonju Youn wrote a new post on the site Moonju's Blog

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 21:53:38 +0000

FMP – Concept In the first and second sessions, I had conversations with Manos about my FMP. As I mentioned in my thesis proposal, the main concept of my FMP […]

Yifang Liu wrote a new post on the site LIUYIFANG

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:35:48 +0000

WEEK 2 storyboard and ocean simulation This is the storyboard I drew I’ve never […]

Sakshi Bhutada wrote a new post on the site Sakshi Bhutada portfolio

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:29:59 +0000

Final Major Project Week 32 Initial Idea: Hyper realityTracking, rotoscoping, Composition(FX, Composition, CGI) ReferencesExperience […]

Mahadev Vipin and Sakshi Bhutada are now friends

Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:25:55 +0000

Yifang Liu wrote a new post on the site LIUYIFANG

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:33:02 +0000

WEEK 1 Graduation Project Proposal 开头：海洋大场景（远景） Opening: Ocean Grand Scene (distant view) The sky was shrouded in thick clouds, with a vague hint of light coming through […]

Yi Bo Chen wrote a new post on the site MA_VFX 23/24 Beacher

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 01:42:18 +0000

EP Group Project (GAIA) Comments So I asked my friend for his critique of our group project and this is what he had to say: In general, the scene can have more contrast in the desert scene, but I’m not sure if it’s your intended art direction, just my personal pref to have darker s […] “EP Group Project (GAIA) Comments”

Alwin Felix Abraham John Christian wrote a new post on the site ALWIN FELIX's BLOG

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 16:45:50 +0000

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Sakshi Bhutada wrote a new post on the site Sakshi Bhutada portfolio

Sat, 06 Jul 2024 07:31:22 +0000

FMP Thesis ProposalIn the first few weeks, our focus was on researching our possible dissertation topics and analysing how to structure our dissertation proposal. […]

Yi Bo Chen wrote a new post on the site MA_VFX 23/24 Beacher

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 01:40:24 +0000

Exploratory Practice Personal Project (Porsche 911 GT3 RS) Final Video Final Video Responsible for everything except the car model and the real-life footage. The production of the final video was very rushed, about 80% of the video was done in the last week. As I only did the easy shots of the front early on, most of the difficult and complex camera animations were done very last minute. Thankfully, a lot of the planning work was done early on and it helped make the journey a little bit more grounded as I just had to follow the storyboard and direction of the mood reel. If I have more time, I hope to improve my composition shot and experiment more with the lighting and rendering aspects. Also, I would like to go back to my comfort zone and hopefully add more VFX simulations to my video.Furthermore, after reviewing the video I realise there is some mistakes with some of the shots which I will be fixing and updating in the future. Also thanks to Gonzalo’s reminder, I think the exr workflow is becoming more and more familiar to me. I usually render PNG as I try to make my renders as good as possible to avoid doing much compositing. But rendering exr really gives me the flexibility to make changes in post-production (even though I think I am still bad at it). However those exr files are really huge and since I had a lot of shots, my SSD exploded. Sadly, I discovered the DWAA compression too late as it really saved a lot of space. BTS Video BTS Video Please turn off the sound for this. So for the BTS video, I want to show my journey of making this but due to the short amount of time, I only can put the important parts. I want to share that actually there is a lot more planned for this video at first. But due to the limited time I have to work on this (because there are two papers to write and one more group project that is very VFX heavy), I cut the whole plan in half. Originally, there was supposed to be an abstract making of the video which is part 1 of this video. The final video shown is the second part. So for the BTS video, I want to show the different stages of the production. Firstly, it is the pre-production stage where I look for a lot of references on cars. Also, I look at a lot of reference video of how other people do their production on cars. I studied a lot of real live shooting of cars where I broke down which camera angles and motion work make sense and which are not realistic. I also looked at abstract car videos where the producers used a lot of abstract CGI elements as symbols related to their cars. Also, I showed some of the animation VFX and compositing process screen recording. Nothing new here, just normal and the usual workflow. VFX Some of the VFX playblasts showing the very little VFX elements in my video. Animatics Although it is only a car, animation is really hard for me to get so this stage is really a new challenge for me. Had to spend a lot of time animating the car and camera. I think I might just not be finished if it’s a character in my video and not a car. The car rigging process is made easier with a plugin called launch control, it is really easy to use and delivers great results. I hope to try more of it in the future. Mood Reel Dig through the whole internet and finally filter the useful footage that is fitting for my storyboard. Reference Originally planned my video to have a Mustang or a vintage car, but I realise it is quite unrealistic for those cars to perform such “racy” animations. Perhaps next time my beautiful Mustang will be used in some more classy video I guess. Storyboard Can’t draw at all so I shall just take screenshots as storyboard directions. Music Found a piece of suitable music on epidemic sound. But it is too long so I had to remix it to fit it to my animatic. The screenshot shows the old animatic which is why the final music is longer than the video. It is a back-and-forth process where I match the […] “Exploratory Practice Personal Project (Porsche 911 GT3 RS)”

Moonju Youn wrote a new post on the site Moonju's Blog

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 01:04:49 +0000

EP – Final VideoIn the last feedback session with Manos, he suggested adjusting my video’s color to be more contrasting. I agreed, so I gathered all the […]

Moonju Youn wrote a new post on the site Moonju's Blog

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 21:54:00 +0000

EP Group Project – Final VideoFinally, our project is complete. Since our slogan is “No Green No Dream,” it can also serve as the title of our project. No Green No […]

Moonju Youn wrote a new post on the site Moonju's Blog

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 19:33:00 +0000

Thesis ProposalThesis-Proposal_Moonju-Youn Based on the development document, I completed my thesis proposal. As there wasn’t much time to conduct […]

Moonju Youn wrote a new post on the site Moonju's Blog

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 17:53:00 +0000

EP Group Project – Addressing Project Challenges and Solutions There was some trouble with one of the group members. Because of this, I wanted to create a different version of the final video to enhance the […]

Yifang Liu wrote a new post on the site LIUYIFANG

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 17:21:20 +0000

week 19 final video

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Wed, 03 Jul 2024 01:21:00 +0000

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Yi Bo Chen wrote a new post on the site MA_VFX 23/24 Beacher

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 08:46:14 +0000

Exploratory Practice Group Project (GAIA) Main Project Video Role: Director, Producer, VFX, Look Dev, Animation (except robot), Lighting & RenderingSpecial Thanks to my Colleague, Chen Xuan for the camera animation guidance For the idea of this project, we did it together as a group as we thought of what all of us wanted to do. TianHang wants to do modelling for robots. Yanghao (Chris) wanted abstraction with the involvement of animals/creatures. I was eager to explore the complex setup of simulating abstract plants and interesting VFX CGI. Choplat (Chay) wants to do post-production and sound design. So knowing what we all wanted, we looked for references and came up with this story (script below). Hence, it contains what everyone wants to do. For this project, I think the bulk of the work is on VFX as almost every shot contains some elements of CGI. I spent a lot of time figuring out how to create the setup so that the geometry that is exported from Houdini would look more natural and at the same time with a hint of abstraction. Also did the animatics (see earlier post). Lighting and Rendering are also quite straightforward, as it was a desert scene and we did not have too many objects to obstruct the illumination of our main subjects, we just used an HDRI to light the scene. Making of Video BTS Video References References Story & Storyboard RnD Link to our board, welcome to explore. Logo […] “Exploratory Practice Group Project (GAIA)”

Yi Bo Chen wrote a new post on the site MA_VFX 23/24 Beacher

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 23:59:33 +0000

RnD (GAIA)RnD

Moonju Youn wrote a new post on the site Moonju's Blog

Sun, 30 Jun 2024 20:43:00 +0000

EP Group Project – Week 11 Since my part is compositing, I had to wait while my group members worked on the 3D parts. Therefore, there are no records for weeks 8 to 10. […]

Moonju Youn wrote a new post on the site Moonju's Blog

Sun, 30 Jun 2024 15:32:18 +0000

Thesis Proposal – DevelopmentFor my thesis proposal, I considered the keywords that I am interested in. Photorealism caught my eyes during the process of writing my […]