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Roles 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-Mason
May 25, 202212 min read


U43 - Advanced VFX - VFX and Shot Evaluation
After 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-Mason
May 23, 20224 min read


Piranha Plant VFX Scene - Render setups and rendering the frames in Maya
After 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-Mason
Apr 22, 20222 min read


Piranha Plant VFX Scene - Texturing the asset and hypershade in Substance Painter
After getting UV maps were unwrapped and sorted. I exported all the UV maps and did "FBX export". Once exported I opened up Substance...
Cade-Mason
Apr 20, 20222 min read


Piranha Plant VFX scene in Maya - Sculpt and UV maps
In this blog I go over the next process of the Piranha Plant VFX. The last phase was sculpting the piranha plant and importing the file...
Cade-Mason
Feb 14, 20222 min read


Sculpting in ZBrush: Piranha Plant
Following on from the concept arts and work. I opened up ZBrush and created a Piranha Plant sculpt. My first object is a poly sphere....
Cade-Mason
Jan 7, 20223 min read


Piranha Plant: Creating the Concept
In this blog I will be sharing concept art, moodboards, image references, character and developed sketches and a character sheet from at...
Cade-Mason
Dec 16, 20211 min read


Greenhouse of Terror - Setting up composition, camera plates and screen casts
I opened Nuke, created a new compostion called GOT comp (aka Greenhouse of Terror). From there I read in the camera plates and screen...
Cade-Mason
Dec 8, 20213 min read
Advanced VFX - Camera Plates and preparation for filming.
In this blog, I will go over the process of what we did to prepare the film shoots in anticipation to create our VFX. Following on from...
Cade-Mason
Oct 9, 20211 min read


Colour correction and green screening
In this workshop, Leigh got us to do color correction and green screening. From google classroom, I grabbed the "Lady_Camera_GS" file,...
Cade-Mason
Oct 4, 20213 min read


Unit 43 Advanced VFX Practices- Sculpting a 3D asset.
Starting on Sam's unit - Advanced VFX. Before I get into the sculpting part I will provide context: We were shown a clip of a greenhouse...
Cade-Mason
Sep 26, 20212 min read
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