Zack Scanlon
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...
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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...
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Zack Scanlon
May 10, 20212 min read
Stop motion
For the stop motion project my team got the word hide so we started to brainstorm ideas for the word and we settled on an animation of a...
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Zack Scanlon
May 10, 20212 min read
OOP and classes
Abstraction Abstraction is a process where you show only “relevant” data and “hide” unnecessary details of an object from the user. For...
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Zack Scanlon
May 10, 20211 min read
Comparison / Logic Operators
> Greater than (E.g An cars mass is greater than a mouse) < Less than (E.g A persons height is less than a building) >= Greater or...
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Zack Scanlon
May 10, 20212 min read
Data Structures
Data structures are ways of storing and organizing data within a computer so that you can perform actions with the stored data. Methods...
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Zack Scanlon
May 10, 20211 min read
Sequences
sequences are a set of numbers that follow a set of rules or a pattern, the rule can be used to add or subtract from a set. The curly...
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Zack Scanlon
May 10, 20211 min read
Number sets
N = Natural numbers are whole numbers from 1 and upwards e.g. 1,2,3,4,5. Z = Integers are the whole numbers and they can be positive or...
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Zack Scanlon
May 7, 20211 min read
Chris McFall motion tracking
Tracking Keeo ISO as low as possible without under exposing to get less noise in your image Have a higher shutter speed to minimize...
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Zack Scanlon
May 7, 20211 min read
Walk Cycle animation
This is a PlayBlast of my first attempt to do a walk cycle. I made this attempt back in January during Lock down, i wasn't super happy...
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Zack Scanlon
May 4, 20211 min read
Components of a 3D (Polygonal) Model
3D models are built up of three core things a vertex, edges and face A vertex is a singular point on a mesh that actually builds up the...
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Zack Scanlon
May 4, 20212 min read
Function of types of textures
The job of textures is to tell a story of your object and what it has been through so if you add scratch's to a floor underneath a door...
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Zack Scanlon
May 4, 20211 min read
Smoothing and Subdivision
Smoothing is an operation that you can perform on your mesh if the edges are too rough and make your object look too low poly. In this...
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Zack Scanlon
Apr 26, 20211 min read
Roto & Prep MaterClass with Connor Tong.
Roto allows you to bring back or hide certain parts of a shot. What is a Roto artist good at? Drawing skills to be able to follow the...
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Zack Scanlon
Apr 19, 20211 min read
Working from a brief from Bradley Crooks
Taking a brief check your under standing clarify where needed understand the right circumstances you can adjust the parameters of the...
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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...
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Zack Scanlon
Mar 24, 20211 min read
Field trip to Mars
The goal of this project was to take students on a virtual trip to Mars so that they would be inspired to pursue careers in engineering...
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Zack Scanlon
Mar 4, 20211 min read
Animation excises
This excise was my introduction to animating in photoshop but i do have an understanding of animation in general but just not doing it in...
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Zack Scanlon
Mar 4, 20211 min read
Cell animation
Cell (Cel)- Short for Celluloid a combination of cellulose nitrate and camphor but was replaced by acetate in the second half of the 20th...
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Zack Scanlon
Mar 4, 20211 min read
5 Principles in animation.
This scene in, Spider-man into the spider-verse you can see uses of all five principles that we have been asked to identify. First is...
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