Cade-MasonMay 25, 202212 min readRoles and Responsibilities in the VFX Industries – Runners & other job roles In the visual effects industries, all members are working to a production pipeline. In this case, they are working towards a VFX pipeline...
Cade-MasonMay 23, 20224 min readU43 - Advanced VFX - VFX and Shot EvaluationAfter working on my VFX piece of a piranha plant, I created a good piece of VFX that I'm proud of. We began working on the VFX piece for...
Cade-MasonMay 16, 20222 min readUnit 44 Advanced Game Development Studies introductionOn the first day, I arrived back at Nescot college, I got assigned to "Unit 44 Advanced Game Development Studies" Originally, the game is...
Cade-MasonMay 16, 20222 min readPiranha Plant VFX Scene - Color Correction, Implementing the render in NukeAfter I exported my rendered frames from Maya into Nuke, I worked on my Nuke script file. From there I had to resolve color and create a...
Cade-MasonMay 16, 20226 min readCyber Synth Runner - A Game Development JourneyDuring my game development assignment, I created a 3D Endless Runner Game in Unreal Engine. I will talk about this step by step and how I...
Cade-MasonMay 15, 20221 min readMarketing methods and monetization in video gamesFor a video game - marketing and monetization are vital in game development. If you need to earn money for your game, monetization and...
Cade-MasonMay 15, 20222 min readUnit 44 - Market Research Report - Provide statistics, charts, graphs of markets - Show essential techniques that work well for the market - Identify my audience - Mark...
Cade-MasonMay 12, 20223 min readMy Future Self and Aspirations - Careers, intentions, and goals inside Creative Media industriesDuring my HND years at Nescot College, I have been coming up with multiple plans for myself in the future after college. What is that I...
Cade-MasonMay 11, 20225 min readU60: Advanced Animation - Introduction and EvaluationIn this unit we are doing animation, as a team we are to work on one character by creating different animations and poses and rigging out...
Cade-MasonMay 10, 20221 min readSimple face rig animation in After Effects exerciseIn after-effects and part of the brief for research and development, I created a simple face rig animation. I followed this YouTube...
Cade-MasonApr 27, 20221 min readAdvanced Animation - My R&D show reel After doing all the research and development (aka R&D) needed for this unit, I was taked with creating an animation showreel based on the...
Cade-MasonApr 26, 20222 min readUnreal Engine 4 - Trying out the game engine I began to learn Unreal Engine 4. My teacher, Leigh provided a tutorial on how things work, how they operate, the U.I of UE4,...
Cade-MasonApr 22, 20222 min readPiranha Plant VFX Scene - Render setups and rendering the frames in MayaAfter importing my textures in Maya, my next step is to render out sequences in Maya. First of all, I had to set up the textures,...
Cade-MasonApr 20, 20222 min readPiranha Plant VFX Scene - Texturing the asset and hypershade in Substance PainterAfter getting UV maps were unwrapped and sorted. I exported all the UV maps and did "FBX export". Once exported I opened up Substance...
Cade-MasonApr 15, 20221 min readFace Rig Animation in 3D - Using a preset rigged character with facial expressionsAs part of our research and development for Unit 60 - Advanced Animation, I created several facial expressions. As humans we have over...
Cade-MasonApr 7, 20222 min readHomer Render with AnimationsAs part of our research and development exercise workshops, we looked into rendering frames. Rendering is the last process of the...
Cade-MasonMar 22, 20221 min readAnimated character with pre animations and pre rigsIn Autodesk Maya we used characters with pre animations and rigs with inverse kinematics and forward kinematics. Inverse kinematics is...
Cade-MasonMar 14, 20221 min readWall-E rotoscope trackingIn After Effects I had to do an exercise where I would find a piece of animation and do rotoscope and tracking over the character. This...
Cade-MasonMar 9, 20222 min readFacial Rig Animation - South Park character with mouth movements, lip syncing and quoting. For our task, I had to create a South Park original character which uses mouth movement and lip syncing. The first step was to create my...
Cade-MasonFeb 28, 20221 min readBouncing Ball AnimationAs part of our research and development workshops for animation I went into after effects to create a bouncing ball. When I created a...
