VFX Semester 2 Planning

This semester we have to create 3 more visual effects shots, at least one has to be in collaboration with students from Film or Fashion Photography courses. I will probably work on several collaborative shots for the hand in but there are a few things I would really like to learn, simply because they are important techniques in the industry.

One of these is camera projection mapping. This is something we studied in first year for half a semester but I would like to learn how to do it with multiple buildings or with multiple angles. This is used a lot in films which have large flying city shots, like avengers down below. It was also used extensively in transformers, although I have lost that video!


Another thing I would like to do is composite something I've made in Maya into a live action backplate, making use of  HDRI balls and lighting to render the CG element. 

Both of these are massively important and I feel I should at least get a grasp on how to do them  whilst I'm at Uni.

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