Post by Vince De Quattro on Oct 6, 2004 8:35:44 GMT -8
MODULE 6: Match Lighting, Part II
Goals:
• using a cucoloris, cuc, cookies – slides in spotlights
• fake volumetric lighting and smoky lights
• haze passes from depth renders
• depth of field focus blur driven by depth renders
Assignments:
• Assignment 6.1: Dailies. Please post current progress on all shots that you have not yet received a final, including the green screen project and simple match lighting project. Post progress for specific shots to the dailies discussion folder for that particular shot. If you are not posting for a specific shot currently in production, explain why.
• Assignment 6.2: UFO Project. Starts production at mid-term week. Think about your background footage now. This project should simulate a tourist visiting San Francisco, and while shooting some video with his digital camera, the videographer happens across a UFO. Must be rolling footage format. Everything else is up to you.
Discussion:
• Discussion 6.1: Examine the frame presented. Can you spot at least five visual cues that would help you light an object to be placed somewhere on the wharf? Consider the nature of the light: is it direct or diffuse? How can you tell? Are there any objects in the frame that bespeak lighting direction? What is the color of the diffuse light? How about the color of the specular light? Does shadow direction tell us anything about the light? Shadow color? Haze?
• Discussion 6.2: VFX Sequence of the Week. This week’s VFX pick is from the film Magnolia (1999), starring Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore and William H. Macy, with post-production effects by Industrial Light and Magic (VFX Supervisor: Joe Letteri). Please watch this clip with instructor commentary and discuss the strengths and weaknesses (if any) of the shot(s) presented.
Dailies
Reference footage for UFO project.
Introduce www.Cinefex.com, it's affiliated magazine and other important vfx websites.
Present an airing of Cinema Secrets, visual effects tele-magazine that features the making of A.I., Spielberg's take on the late director, Stanley Kubrick's, science fiction project.
Goals:
• using a cucoloris, cuc, cookies – slides in spotlights
• fake volumetric lighting and smoky lights
• haze passes from depth renders
• depth of field focus blur driven by depth renders
Assignments:
• Assignment 6.1: Dailies. Please post current progress on all shots that you have not yet received a final, including the green screen project and simple match lighting project. Post progress for specific shots to the dailies discussion folder for that particular shot. If you are not posting for a specific shot currently in production, explain why.
• Assignment 6.2: UFO Project. Starts production at mid-term week. Think about your background footage now. This project should simulate a tourist visiting San Francisco, and while shooting some video with his digital camera, the videographer happens across a UFO. Must be rolling footage format. Everything else is up to you.
Discussion:
• Discussion 6.1: Examine the frame presented. Can you spot at least five visual cues that would help you light an object to be placed somewhere on the wharf? Consider the nature of the light: is it direct or diffuse? How can you tell? Are there any objects in the frame that bespeak lighting direction? What is the color of the diffuse light? How about the color of the specular light? Does shadow direction tell us anything about the light? Shadow color? Haze?
• Discussion 6.2: VFX Sequence of the Week. This week’s VFX pick is from the film Magnolia (1999), starring Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore and William H. Macy, with post-production effects by Industrial Light and Magic (VFX Supervisor: Joe Letteri). Please watch this clip with instructor commentary and discuss the strengths and weaknesses (if any) of the shot(s) presented.
Dailies
Reference footage for UFO project.
Introduce www.Cinefex.com, it's affiliated magazine and other important vfx websites.
Present an airing of Cinema Secrets, visual effects tele-magazine that features the making of A.I., Spielberg's take on the late director, Stanley Kubrick's, science fiction project.