Year 1 VFX

Zack Scanlon

May 24, 20211 min read

Scheduling for VFX

Scheduling is a paramount part of making sure large teams are able to meet the deadline whilst also delivering high quality shots. The...

Zack Scanlon

May 24, 20211 min read

Risk Assessment

The risk assessment part of a production is critical in filming as it help identify and helps people understand any potential hazards...

Zack Scanlon

May 24, 20212 min read

Portal Shot

For this shot i started with tracking it to get the cameras motion this part involved doing some clean up of the tracks so that i am able...

Zack Scanlon

May 22, 20212 min read

ATV match move shot

To start the shot i convert the plate into a image sequence and brought into my script where i used the distortion grid to undistort my...

Zack Scanlon

May 22, 20212 min read

Visual effects pipeline.

The visual effects pipeline is a very complex and arduous workflow that needs hundreds if not thousands of people to make sure each part...

Zack Scanlon

Mar 26, 20211 min read

Boxer Rotoscope shot.

For this task we were assigned a frame range to rotoscope and after we would combine all of our frames in Nuke. I was assigned frames 61...

Zack Scanlon

Nov 10, 20202 min read

Digital makeup

To start this shot i set up my folder structure and got a video of an actress as my plate i put everything in the corresponding folders...

Zack Scanlon

Oct 21, 20202 min read

Planar Tracking Graffiti.

After i downloaded my assets i took my footage into premiere pro and changed the footage frame rate from 59.94 to 25 to make the footage...

Zack Scanlon

Oct 13, 20202 min read

Nuke plane shot

Starting with importing my assets for the shot into my nuke folder structure. Once i was in Nuke i started with refamiliarizing myself...