As a 3D modeller, my role is to make 3D objects that look exactly like the style and design of what my team desires out of my models as a 3D modeller I also have to ensure that my model is useful on a technical level so that it’s easy to rig and animate as… Continue reading Self-evaluation

For our studio 3 unit me and my team banded together to make a VFX short film about a man forcefully ejected from his perfect but virtual world. Initially, we wanted the man not to be aware that he was in a simulation. We wanted him to be in a hyperreality. Hyperreality is defined as… Continue reading The virtual

3D modelling is the process of creating a virtual 3D object using specialised software (“3D Modeling: Creating 3D Objects”, n.d.). There are multiple ways one can go about 3D modelling. There’s Box modelling, edge modelling, spline modelling, digital sculpting, procedural modelling etc but in this blog, I’ll be talking about one of the relative newer 3D… Continue reading Emerging techniques for 3Dmodeling

This week I was still working on the CD textures as time was quickly running out and the CD still needed to have the disintegration effect applied, animated and rendered so we can hand it off to the VFX student. I was still attempting to learn from existing CD materials and while I still haven’t… Continue reading Studio 3 blog 9

During this week I was tasked with making another prop a CD. While the CD in itself was rather simple to model I easily found myself stumped when making tasked with making the texture for it as the reflective portion of the CD had to be a procedural texture rather than a slapped on image… Continue reading Studio 3 blog 8

During the progress report presentation we did after filming I showed the updated version of my props and we showed the footage to our lecturers for approvals and as we had feared we were told that the footage wasn’t good enough due to lighting problems and the environment of the scene looking too bland so… Continue reading studio 3 blog 7

This week was finally the fabled day of shooting so on Sunday we met up with the actors and the film student on the shooting site which was the apartment of one of my peers. Some of my teammates showed up before the actors or the equipment could arrive so we spent the time fixing… Continue reading studio 3 blog 6

This week I finished up the models and presented them as well as the models of my teammates to the teacher for approval. Mine was approved but I had to fix the pinching problem on two of my props and it was decided that the VR headset was to be a physical prop in real… Continue reading Studio 3 blog 5

We held our casting call this week on the day of the call we had the greenscreen room booked for about 3 hours so we had to make sure we got everything done fast. we set up the area a bit put op a whiteboard outside the room to advertise the audition to anyone passing… Continue reading studio 3 blog 4

After a few more edits to the animatic, we ended up with an animatic that consisted of a mix of our live action and 3D footage but after our many iterations we finally got to the point were the lecturer approved of our work and we were finally permitted to begin filming whenever we wished… Continue reading studio 3 blog 3