Tag Archives: making stories

Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Games and such things

Metaverse: Open for business? XR What Is XR, and How Is It Radically Transforming Industries? Autodesk to Acquire The Wild, Extended Reality (XR) Solutions Provider for Immersive and Collaborative Workspaces for Design and Construction VR VR VIRTUAL REALITY CINEMA MELBOURNE -Sessions are generally 25-30 mins and you will see 4 shorts. -Screens Local & International […]

HDR Images

High Dynamic Range Images – HDRI  HDRI (High Dynamic Range Imaging)  is a technology that expands the dynamic range of an image and shows details in both shadows and highlights. Dynamic Range is a range of brightness values that can be recorded on media (film, photographic plate, photographic paper) or on the matrix of a digital […]

Business

Trust your intuition. Engage in the right sort of deliberate practice.  Invest time, genuine feedback, highly motivated, expert coach to recognise mistakes and dvise strategy for improvement.  Concentrate on developing the weak points.  Self regulation and set clear goals. When making a mistake attempt to fix from memory.  do not always start at the beginning, […]

Audio

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Drawing, Design and Creativity

DESIGN Composition refers to the layout of the different elements for the overall scene, using suitable sizes and positions of different images and assets. White space is not necessarily a white colour – it is any blank space and can be used effectively to emphasise key parts of the graphic.  Creating a frame and sequence that […]

Compositing

Compositing is the process of putting back together elements of a shot or scene that have been rendered separately.  These layers give the compositor the ability to alter elements when finishing before integrating and bringing them together in the final image.  In the Post-Production Visual Effects Industry, compositing is a vital step to achieving final, […]

Animation Process Diary

What is Animation? Animation is not necessarily the re-creation of living things; it can be the exaggeration of living things to create more vivid forms. Animation shows us change over time, which could be the position, size, colour or shape. It uses the principle of persistence of vision, such as the Zoetrope to create the illusion […]

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 […]

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 […]