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Team Project

November - December 2024

IMDB

2D Compositor

For this Team project as part of our 3rd year at escape studios I was responsible for the opening shot of the film. This entailed a full CG background, so I would need to make sure to use a variety of reference to create a photorealistic result with my final grade.

My first problems however, came initially with the plate prep for keying. I had to remove many tracking markers from the greenscreen and the overlap with motion blur from our actor cause me many issues. Looking back on this problem, my solution was inefficient and next time I would look towards an edge extension technique to resolve the issue.

For this shot I was also able to explore and play with the particle system within nuke. I wanted to explore and challenge myself so I decided to try and create an atmospheric re-entry effect entirely within nuke. I was able to achieve this quite well I believe and was extremely happy with the final result.

Overall this project allowed me to explore more areas of nuke I had yet to use, while reinforcing some of my basic fundamentals and teaching me some better techniques for future projects.