myblog | Mahadev Vipin | Activity https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/members/23007320/activity/ Activity feed for Mahadev Vipin. Sun, 10 May 2026 00:51:42 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 7881aa5f1e6183783cf587967447ee1b Mahadev Vipin and Sakshi Bhutada are now friends https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/545289/ Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:25:55 +0000 0 804555f0d185cbc3d7be6ec2ffb8cd4c Mahadev Vipin wrote a new post on the site Mahadev's blog https://23007320.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=736 Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:52:09 +0000 Finding a Job and Portfolio Tips – by Gonzalo Stay connected with people. Try to make friends, not enemies. The VFX industry is unique in a way that everyone knows everyone. So try to be humble and kind to everyone and push out ego. Best place to find work is LinkedIn. Check the company’s website including their showreels, their specialization. Learn about the job specialization, read the job description carefully and apply for the suitable job. CV: Use .pdf format for creating and sharing a CV. Use ARIAL or similar font. Not necessary to have a picture in your CV. Trying to fit your CV into 1 page is preferable. Showreel: Quality over Quantity 1st year of job is tricky as you have to wait for the movie/series to release to add your work in your showreel. This is normal for every entry level workers. Try to keep all your work categorized like year, month, etc in one single folder. One of the most common and secure websites to publish and share your reel is Vimeo. You can also add password to your reel to make sure your data is secured, and people don’t misuse it. Vimeo is better than YouTube for publishing and sharing showreels. The clients of a film/series are the owners of the contents ad everything you work for. So be careful sharing your works on social platforms without consent as you may be sued or face bans from the industry. Always ask permission to your superior for sharing work on your showreel. IMDB: You can find work even on IMDB. Full Cast & Crew > Special Effects/Visual Effects > Name of the person, Their Role, Their Company, etc. Select a director/producer or someone you want to work with > UPCOMING > Check for Visual Effects crew > Find their contact details with that person or the company he/she is working for. This is great for establishing a contact with the HR of that firm. Try creating a work related to the theme of that movie. We can make our own profile in IMBD which is free. Try calling HR or Superiors of your project or company and ask them for credits in IMDB. Always make sure you call them up and ask them if your name is up for the project in IMDB. VFX Interviews: Type of interviews: Phone Interview Video Call Traditional Interview Interview Preps: Read carefully about your interview and what type it is. Reply to the email accepting the interview and b grateful for it. Always reply to the email. Gather as much information as you can abut the company. What type of company it is- small, medium or big scale. Review their website, take notes of it. Learn about their history and check if they specialise in something particular. Watch their showreels and breakdowns. Sometimes the HR mentions people available for the interviews, so try to gain as much information about them as possible, through LinkedIn or IMDB or other such platforms. Maybe even search in google for their websites. Update your showreel before an interview. Try to show them the latest and greatest of your work. Try to carry work other than your showreel like for instance something you have worked for in a game or something. Update your CV with latest information Current residency Your studies and degrees Professional History and awards Published works like papers Technical skills Your Permit to work (Be honest) Do a breakdown pdf of your showreel, where you mention what you did in the shot. Be really specific. Print at least 2 or more copies of it. Go to interview with your laptop at full charge with all your work in one folder or backup in a USB Stick. Do not have your portfolio just online. Always carry a backup. Find the location, how you’re going to get there, how much time it will take, etc. Be there on time, at least 10 minutes before the allotted time. Dress smart but not to formal. DON”T WEAR A SUIT! During the Interview: Be kind and listening Try to use short sentences if your English is not good. Try to know interviewer better Tell them what you like about the company and talk about your showreels and projects. Don’t panic if you don’t know the answer to a question. It’s completely normal. Tell them you don’t know the answer, I apologise. Be honest and fair with your answers. Tell them your hobbies, what else you do apart from Vfx, like sports, photography,etc. Always say you have questions to ask because if you don’t, it shows your lack of interest. Ask your questions at the end of the interview: Could you tell me what type of project this is? Could you tell me about the VFX Supe? How big is the team? The bigger the project, the more specific your work is going to be. How long will this project be? Ask politely about the timeframe for feedback of interview or when the company will get back to you. Say Thanks to the Interviewers. After the Interview: You can send an email again the following day to say many thanks for the interview and ask them if they want further details. This is a great way to establish connections. If it’s more than a week, send a follow up mail. Read your contract carefully after you land a job. Feel free to ask questions about doubts you may have. Compositing Showreel Guidelines: Between 1 and 2 minutes, even 1 minute 30 seconds s fine Quality and Clarity over Quantity. 4-5 completed shots including breakdowns to demonstrate key skills used in each shot. What it should include: 1x ROTO: Color Overlay, Comped over neutral BG, 120-150 frames 2x RIG REMOVAL: 2D Paint Clean Up, 3D Clean up, Projections, Face Marker/Beauty 1x KEYING: Chroma key, Luma Key 1x CG CCOMPOSITING Shooting and working on own footage is fresh and unique. Likely to start as Prep Artist and then go onto Junior Compositor. Export full HD, not in 4K. Music can be added but not really important. Make sure you add name, email, number both at beginning […] “Finding a Job and Portfolio Tips – by Gonzalo”

]]> 0 52060db11cbe9bfcb49a0541b5023446 Mahadev Vipin wrote a new post on the site Mahadev's blog https://23007320.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=696 Tue, 28 May 2024 16:59:33 +0000 NUKE ASSIGNMENT – LONDON CITY This is my final version for the London City Destruction Assignment for Nuke. My focus was to use everything Gonzalo taught us from Term 1, everything from rotoscoping, masking, match moving, adding 3d assets to a scene and even adding fire and smoke and color grading. I’m pretty happy with the way this turned out. Gonzalo liked the work too but had some suggestions on how to make it next level. One suggestion was to add depth to the fire and smoke on the building in the left background as well as to add a bit more elements on the foreground. Overall, he was impressed with the idea of adding spaceships and the intro sequence with voice overs. So this was a fun project to work on and I gained tons of knowledge and experience from […] “NUKE ASSIGNMENT – LONDON CITY”

]]> 0 5be29f28cb11cc22e6fb94e19c4b97d2 Mahadev Vipin wrote a new post on the site Mahadev's blog https://23007320.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=665 Wed, 13 Mar 2024 13:31:52 +0000 Seafloor Marvels

Title of the Project:

Selecting the title of the project was not a big task for us because our primary motive was to show the beautiful and intriguing creatures that exists at […]

]]> 0 d8aaeec19502dec0e7594ccdca868022 Mahadev Vipin and Minghan Lyu are now friends https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/531326/ Mon, 29 Jan 2024 23:35:09 +0000 0 31e74acc11bb9c82e197731d805cd35f Mahadev Vipin wrote a new post on the site Mahadev's blog https://23007320.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=395 Wed, 10 Jan 2024 18:06:45 +0000 Shiva’s Legacy : The Lost Shivling is a short fantasy animation. The idea revolves around depicting a Shivling, an abstract symbol representing the Hindu deity SHIVA, concealed within an Indian cave. This cave, […]

]]> 0 cbf52bd9c89301e741676c74d0488510 Mahadev Vipin and Qichun Huang are now friends https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/527632/ Mon, 11 Dec 2023 05:40:58 +0000 0 c3c685adcf79e8b6d075311022a6f795 Mahadev Vipin wrote a new post on the site Mahadev's blog https://23007320.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=292 Tue, 05 Dec 2023 17:24:28 +0000 This was our final day to submit the balloon festival. And this is my version of it!!

]]> 0 b6f9347f303cab11802001c17439ea88 Mahadev Vipin and Bao Ngan Luc are now friends https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/526635/ Sun, 03 Dec 2023 19:04:26 +0000 0 1694ee3fffcc79e790ec30d1dd4021be Mahadev Vipin wrote a new post on the site Mahadev's blog https://23007320.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=255 Tue, 28 Nov 2023 17:12:38 +0000 This was the assignment for week 9 of Gonzalos’ class. We had to add elements to the school room using every tool we learned over the past couple of weeks. So, I used Planar tracker node, RotoPaint node, Roto […]

]]> 0 94d8cbc0721eb5a9004a32171821894d Mahadev Vipin and Veronika Kasumian are now friends https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/525327/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 16:44:26 +0000 0 2ad39366bf0b4125ebb93dde7a789259 Mahadev Vipin wrote a new post on the site Mahadev's blog https://23007320.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=206 Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:40:19 +0000 This was the assignment for Week 8 in Gonzalo’s class. We had to remove the posters from section 1 and 2 and then Planar Track it and then place the pole above the layer. We also had to remove the plain w […]

]]> 0 e76722fe37803941fdcf0c9a661a3b59 Mahadev Vipin and Moonju Youn are now friends https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/524624/ Sat, 18 Nov 2023 18:36:27 +0000 0 4d436a5c95f6dbab9e45d54e1ecf38fd Mahadev Vipin and Yu Chen are now friends https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/524581/ Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:56:46 +0000 0 9d7768c96de29911d9de5111e60a04c6 Mahadev Vipin wrote a new post on the site Mahadev's blog https://23007320.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=132 Mon, 13 Nov 2023 11:33:07 +0000 This was the assignment for Week 6 in Gonzalo’s class. We had to remove the green screen in the mobile phone and then place images in a way that would move along with the swipe of the lady’s hands. It was a […]

]]> 0 ee89755a2e5e104aa51df82770cbed5c Mahadev Vipin wrote a new post on the site Mahadev's blog https://23007320.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=88 Mon, 06 Nov 2023 15:41:24 +0000 This assignment was for WEEK 5. We had to rotoscope the running man as well as track the bridge and then rotoscope it as well. Then we had to check it in alpha and color masked versions of it to deduct any […]

]]> 0 ec9bcfed3c86bcb8c7561a4fc78b5530 Mahadev Vipin changed their profile picture https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/522734/ Mon, 06 Nov 2023 15:21:52 +0000 0 e693448bdc60818e9b21c79d885ff9c4 Mahadev Vipin wrote a new post on the site Mahadev's blog https://23007320.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=50 Mon, 30 Oct 2023 10:54:25 +0000 CONCEPT 2 (FINAL)

IDEA

“The idea is to create a cave environment with sun rays passing directly to a SHIVLING (an abstract representation of Hindu God SHIVA) set on a stage. There is a small water body and […]

]]> 0 1ee6f2e1c4c56a4c172444c1967bac8b Mahadev Vipin and Ranran Li are now friends https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/521348/ Fri, 27 Oct 2023 16:08:45 +0000 0 fc4e6f20dad7ad648ebe84efc17f60f5 Mahadev Vipin wrote a new post on the site Mahadev's blog https://23007320.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=41 Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:01:19 +0000 London Tube Travel – Cinematic Vlog

This video is simply an experiment I made while travelling through the underground tubes across London city.

This video is actually Project 2 of Week 2 for Gonzalo. […]

]]> 0 6617877086f3c1b7d0c96adc2efa7e0f Mahadev Vipin posted a new activity comment https://22048303.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2023/10/10/10-10-2023-intro-to-cinematography-ii/#comment-2 Tue, 10 Oct 2023 22:37:20 +0000 Nice bro!

In reply to - Yi Bo Chen wrote a new post on the site MA_VFX 23/24 Beacher Mise en scène Goal is to communicate an idea through “Mise en scène”. Visual storytelling = an emotional experience for the viewer. “Mise en s […] ]]> 27a7f7c23c0a35d230c6e5b7e1e7f992 Mahadev Vipin and Tianhang Xiang are now friends https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/518420/ Tue, 10 Oct 2023 18:52:03 +0000 0 b7d7e0ef1ae185666909f398f171de3f Mahadev Vipin changed their profile picture https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/518391/ Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:18:26 +0000 0 09b84d88833ecc81aa780d0e6e4a73a6 Mahadev Vipin wrote a new post on the site Mahadev's blog https://23007320.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=10 Tue, 10 Oct 2023 16:43:37 +0000 Convey time through a series of pictures that actually makes sense. I’ve tried to explain concept of time through some pictures of sky, clouds, sun and moon because ever since Earth was born, the sky has been […]

]]> 0 a16cc39c1ef32d020623fae6764e7933 Mahadev Vipin and Alwin Felix Abraham John Christian are now friends https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/518370/ Tue, 10 Oct 2023 16:15:17 +0000 0 4164dad069e5001ee4f9423247865086 Mahadev Vipin and Yi Bo Chen are now friends https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/518369/ Tue, 10 Oct 2023 16:13:42 +0000 0 cadb525221e1f579a8aa9a384a3883be Mahadev Vipin and Yifang Liu are now friends https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/518368/ Tue, 10 Oct 2023 16:12:35 +0000 0 7cfc6bbbdfd0c9e6054ac103e43089f4 Mahadev Vipin wrote a new post on the site Mahadev's blog https://23007320.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1 Tue, 10 Oct 2023 16:08:18 +0000 Welcome to Mahadev’s blog – Just another myblog.arts site

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