Monthly Archives: September 2013

3D and VFX

VFX in 2021: What Works, Who Works & What’s Changing Forever Tutorial – Creating a Stylized CG Scene n this tutorial, I walk through the process of creating a stylized CG scene from scratch. I cover: The order of steps I took to create the image The most important phases in each step The techniques and […]

Post Production

‘It is so important that we see things that are about us, that talk to us, that make us think about our lives’ Gillian Armstrong, The Age, 18 September 2017 The Biggest Bloopers and Editing Errors That Have Been Caught in Major Films Throughout the Years When it comes to film production, the technology used […]

Camera, Lighting and Motion Capture

ALSO   PHOTOGRAPHY LIGHTING and RENDERING The story is told through the camera, being used to manipulate the elements while letting the viewer know what they need to focus on and how they might feel. Get out there and have a go. The camera is used to manipulate the elements of the scene, focusing viewers on what […]

Storyboards and Animatics

STORYBOARDS A storyboard is a graphic organizer that consists of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence. The storyboarding process, in the form it is known today, was developed at Walt Disney Productions during the early 1930s, after several years of similar processes being in use at Walt Disney and other animation studios. Storyboards are used for […]