Term 4 Presentation

Here is my end of Term 4 presentation. There's still lots to do, but, as you can see, I'm making progress. I'm scheduled to shoot my final plates this week so I'll have big updates coming soon!

Spider Assignment!

Here is my version of VFS's legendary Spider Assignment. It is an assignment that everyone gets in Term 4 and has been done forever! It's hard to come up with something original, but I think I did ok. This was also one of those sink-or-swim assignments. We were just kind of expected to do it without really knowing how. I think I did pretty well. What do you think?

Rigid Body Systems

Last week, in Advanced VFX, we learned about Rigid Body Systems. It was definitely fun for a while, that is until we had to make our own creative chain reaction. That's when things got tricky. Rigid Bodies are a way of making objects collide and move with gravity, turbulence, air fields, etc. just like they would in real life. It's a very finicky process.

Our first assignment was to make a bowl dump some mints onto a table:



The second assignment was to make a ball swing from a chain:



Our third assignment was to make that ball crash through a wall of bricks, like a wrecking ball:



Our fourth, and most difficult, assignment was to make our own creative chain reaction. I used the board game Mouse Trap as inspiration. Let me just tell you, this was NOT easy:

So, this week in Advanced Visual Effects, we're working on particles.

We started off with making these random particles that act as if they're in car wind:

The next one we did was supposed to simulate a flame stream and look good at a distance:

The last one we did, we used instancing with bee models to make it look like they were flying in a random path:

So yesterday, we had a little time to get into the green screen room to shoot some test footege for our rough compisitions (slap comps). We all worked together and ended up learning a lot and having quite a bit of fun...

Bob is wearing a SWAT costume for someone else's reel. He had way too much fun running around school and scaring everyone, haha:

He had fun posing with my Toy (Moishe):

A little justaposition:

He Just saved Moishe from the apocolipse:

I'll be posting my slap comped animatic soon so stay tuned!

One step closer to taking over Canada!

I now have universal Health Care...Woot!

...aren't you jealous? ;-)

My spot in the Antfarm!

So here is where I'm scentenced to spend the next 6 months. I got lucky and got a corner seat, so nobody can come by and stare at my screen or bug me without making some serious effort. I also got a window seat, although that doesn't matter that much due to the fact that we have blackout curtains which must remain closed at ALL TIMES!. The room is normally pitch black with nothing but the glow of the monitors anc a few scattered desk lamps to keep us from tripping over our own feet, but I was lucky enough to get these puics while they were cleaning so, for once, I could actually see well enough to give you guys an idea of where I am all day.

Here is my station:

A closeup of a few of my decorations:

My very own high powered PC: *my MacBook Pro is just off screen ;-)

And the toy im making for my final reel:

So that's it! Hopefully I'll be able to post a video soon of life in the Antfarm. It's pretty cool in here. I hope this was at least mildly interesting.