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Digital Matte Painting - Final Project: Thematic Matte Painting (VFX)

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16/06/2023 - 06/07/2023 (Week 11 - 14) WONG JUN ZHE / 0353613 Digital Matte Painting / B' Creative Media / Taylor's University Final Project: Thematic Matte Painting (VFX) INSTRUCTIONS MIB " Thematic and realistic. Students will demonstrate technical capability to analyse, composite and communicate set uniqueness by blending 3D geometry and 2D painting to a raw video footage together with special effects. Students need to come up with 3 different location based on the theme and genre selected. Students must also showcase the breakdowns of how this project is undertaken. * Note that your matte should seamlessly blend and showcase a believable set. You are to use Unreal or Unity to make the world build and compose it via After Effects. Submission: Compiled technical doc .pdf (*moodboard, styleguide, storyboard, technical processes as posted in their e-portfolio). Final output will include a 15 – 30 sec video (*.mp4, h2.64, 16:9 - 1440 X 1080, 25 fps, ACC, 48kHz, uploaded to

Digital Matte Painting - Project 2: Invisible Set Extension

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15/05/2023 - 16/06/2023 (Week 7 - 11) WONG JUN ZHE / 0353613 Digital Matte Painting / B' Creative Media / Taylor's University Project 2: Invisible Set Extension INSTRUCTIONS MIB " You will synthesize the knowledge gained in task 1 and 2 for application in task 3. Students are to demonstrate technical capability to analyse, composite and communicate set extension over raw footage or recreate it by scratch and add motion. You will dissect and deconstruct raw footage to understand the nature and concept of the footage environment requirements for extension. With the understanding gained, you are to synthesize the knowledge to produce believable and compelling footage that syncs naturally as required. You will start with sketching and move on to digitization and then generation using the appropriate software. Upon completion of the set extension you will construct a poster of equivalent to promote your creation. You will conclude by selecting and presenting your creation in th

Anatomy and Digital Sculpture - Final Project: Polishing and Dynamic Posture with Props

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02/06/2023 - 06/07/2023 (Week 6 - 14) WONG JUN ZHE / 0353613 Anatomy and Digital Sculpture / B' Creative Media / Taylor's University Final Project: Polishing and Dynamic Posture with Props INSTRUCTIONS MIB " You are to finally polish your character, Cleanup and retouch your sculpt accordingly with an appealing posture that represents character personality clearly. Character to have props that will further support characters persona and adds visual narrative of its nature. Sculpture should stand on a platform and retopoed. Lighting to be further enhanced and final renders to then be retouched in photoshop or ad digital painting tool. Below are the required breakdowns list: Collective shots rendered to show components in details Final render to be polished and presented on a potrait sized image. Printable high res.  Final poster with appealing layout. Baked texture sheet  Projection to low-poly model  Character turntable " Prop / Weapon Prop Character Turnable Character

Anatomy and Digital Sculpture - Project 2: Character Detailing and Texturing

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02/06/2023 - 06/07/2023 (Week 6 - 14) WONG JUN ZHE / 0353613 Anatomy and Digital Sculpture / B' Creative Media / Taylor's University Project 2: Character Detailing and Texturing INSTRUCTIONS MIB " You are to continue with the previous sculpt from Project 1 to further enhancement. You may add sufficient details and textures to the character sculpt by utiliziing thorough studies of anatomy principles in your sculpt. Details should uplift the character persona which will add visual narrative to the output produced. Below are the list of components to be achieved in this project: Character Persona Skin Details Scars and bumps Creases  Color implementation Light setup Final Render " First Attempt:  Below is my first attempt that did not go so well. The design looks too simple with very little accessories. Furthermore, certain parts of the anatomy is slightly off. The skin is also not smoothened properly.  Second Attempt: So, for the second attempt, I decided to look for ex

Digital Matte Painting - Exercises: Fundamentals of Matte Painting

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03/04/2023 - 07/07/2023 (Week 1 - 14) WONG JUN ZHE / 0353613 Digital Matte Painting / B' Creative Media / Taylor's University Exercises - Fundamentals of Matte Painting INSTRUCTIONS MIB " You will undergo a series of exercises that will enhance your understanding of matte as listed below: Perspective Studies (Landscapes and Interiors) Compositions Value Studies Sky replacements 2.5D mattes Invisible Set Extensions " 1. Perspective Studies (Week 1) We are tasked to search for images that showcase 1, 2, and 3 point perspective views, study and analyse them by drawing perspective lines on the images. Then, using basic shapes, build the image to show a good understanding on perspective.  1 point perspective: 2 point perspective: 3