SCAD X Harbor Picture - Week 6

Mentor Molly

Mentor Hailey

Mentor Vi

strange beat in FX
hitch in camera - smooth it
shot 2-1 a bit of movement start tighter and move subtle at start
shot 2-2 smooth out the camera
shot 3-1 reflection on the ring looks good, but make sure to light the diamonds and check the
black spots on the ring

shot 1-1 skip the rack focus
cards for mountains in shot 2-1 and 2-2

colors got better but last shot is green-gold - maybe warm up the balance
shot 3-1 sky is flat - art direct this shot

Feedback/Notes

Tasks

• FX iteration for shot 1-2 & 2-1

• Set up all the AOVs

• Render shot 1 (without BG)

Work in progress

Dragon Disintegration FX (shot 1)

In the first three frames, the condition of the blast node scatters the point in the whole mesh. I found that is caused because the Cd.x value for whole mesh is less than 0.2 in those frames, so I set different condition and switch the blast node based on the frame to scatter the points.

Ring Transformation FX (shot 2-1)

I hadn't worked a lot on shot 1 FX this week, but I was able to fix the issue I had last week. There was a particle line between hand and head and I figured out it was because I set the Interpolation Method to Match Topology. Once I changed it to Use Point Velocity, line didn't show up.

I also changed the curve line more dynamically so that the particles can be seen in the camera better. Along with that, I adjusted timing and speed of the particle trail for smoother transition from the shot 1.

Shot 1 Render

Shot 2 Render (by Yilin)

Updates

• More solid work flow pipeline within the team

• Assigned renders for specific part

• No extra shot - optimized

To make sure for next week's render, I will cache the simulation to reduce the size of the file. Render time was ridiculous and I even got a 2 hour kill for one frame. As I will add more feature to the simulation, I definitely need to cache to reduce the render time.

I see some issues regarding the trail movements along with camera motion and some particle bunch that are eliminated from the trail. To solve the issue, I am planning to tweak the values of each parameters in the POP Source to make the particles to keep floating inside of the curve line. I will attempt to use the custom velocity that I created in week 4 to see if that will add more dynamic movement to the trail yet not too crazy.