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-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-MasonFeb 14, 20222 min readPiranha Plant VFX scene in Maya - Sculpt and UV mapsIn 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-MasonJan 7, 20223 min readSculpting in ZBrush: Piranha PlantFollowing 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-MasonDec 16, 20211 min readPiranha Plant: Creating the ConceptIn this blog I will be sharing concept art, moodboards, image references, character and developed sketches and a character sheet from at...
Cade-MasonDec 8, 20213 min readGreenhouse of Terror - Setting up composition, camera plates and screen castsI opened Nuke, created a new compostion called GOT comp (aka Greenhouse of Terror). From there I read in the camera plates and screen...
Cade-MasonOct 9, 20211 min readAdvanced 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-MasonOct 4, 20213 min readColour correction and green screeningIn this workshop, Leigh got us to do color correction and green screening. From google classroom, I grabbed the "Lady_Camera_GS" file,...
Cade-MasonSep 26, 20212 min readUnit 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...