Steven Stufflebeam - Fate

Labeling Your Work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UW9NC88OpA&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZv7VBPph5c

Jay Roberts - Fall 2011 Demo Reel

Ethan Dayton's mini portfolio

Heather's Demo Reel

Adam Schreyer_Demo Reel

James Nielsen: Final Demo Reel

Jessica Wilkinson - Cowboy Demo Reel

Examples of reflections, dirt, and other plussing, as well as my progress so far at working on the gunshot.

Chris Loomis: Demo Reel

Nathan White Final Reel

SFX Reel

Brent Seavers - VFX Demo Reel

Jason Bertoch - FatePropsDemoReel

Professional Examples of Compositing

Here's the video I was talking about during cowboy filming today.

Filming Thursday Dec 8th 1-4pm - CS605

We have the green screen studio reserved this Thursday Dec 8th 1-4pm. No matter what, we're filming. Be prepared to be an extra if you can. We'll be up in the studio, so just head up there.

The studio is just one floor up in room CS 605. Please be there ready to walk back 'n' forth across the green screen. Thanks.

Latest Rough Comp

Here's the latest composition, I worked on the last scene. Could I ask everybody to render out a copy of what they have so I can put a comp together that is as up to date as possible?

Gunshot--Shot 14

Here's the latest version of shot 14. Please let me know what I can do to make it look more realistic.  I moved all of the animation to the end, since the next shot follows the bullet.  Please let me know what you think. EDIT--After watching a few times, and getting some feedback, I'm going to redo it again and try to add a few things. --Namely having the gun move upward.

Also--I've started working on analyzing Nuit Blanche's camera movements so that I can match them to ours. I assume I'm still supposed to be working on that...If someone else has already started please let me know so I don't step on anyone's toes.

Things we need to film

Here's the shots we need to film

Anthony- getting hit by horse, full body
Anthony - Stepping in real poop - Will lay down green poster board to put "poop" on.

Wagon Rider - (Shot from front and side) - Looking straight ahead holding ROPE. Looks to left, sees pretty girl. Hears gun shot, and reacts by cowering, then bailing to his left off of wagon.

Main Woman - hand re-dropping glass. Needs to stay in focus.

-------------------------All Other Extras------------------------

RESTAURANT SIDE EXTRAS

* Woman walks down street with her 3-4 year old son trailing behind. She's holding a burlap sack of flour. He's playing with a stick. They walk from camera left to camera

right.

* Man riding horse from camera right to camera left

* Couple walking down street together

* 2 people walking left to right & 2 people right to left.

SALOON SIDE EXTRAS

* Burly man on 2nd floor of saloon inside, tries to wrestle a kiss from a Saloon Can-Can Dancer. She slaps him, is taken aback, then with new anger comes at her while she backs away.

* Man outside on 2nd floor leans on railing. Rolls a cigarette. Puts in mouth, lights up, then walks off to his left (camera right) puffing.

*2 people sitting in stage coach talking. Lighting will be indirect. * Man driving stage coach. (should probably travel from camera left to right, so we can have them off camera quickly. But for variance, could have travel from right to left?)

* upper half of man walking from camera right to left putting on his hat. looking slighting down in front of him.

* upper half of man walking from camera left to right smoking a pipe/cigar/cigarette. looking slightly down in front of him.

* People sitting in saloon. Person walking in saloon.

* 2 people walking left to right & 2 people right to left.

TOWARDS EAGLE GATE EXTRAS (Looking down Road)

* Same woman with flour and son with stick are crossing the street diagonally from lower camera left, to upper camera right.

* Man walking down street towards camera

* Man walking up street away from camera

* Person walking down sidewalk towards camera.

Rough Composite_3 & Shot extensions

Here's the latest animatic, and I've also listed which shots are too short and how much they need to be extended by. (I'll add these notes to the google doc). I rounded up the amount of time so we have extra footage rather than to the frame.

Shot 1: 9 seconds (onto the front)
Shot 2: 1 second (really 3-5 frames)
Shot 3: 1 second (5-10 frames)
Shot 6: 2 seconds
Shot 9: 2 seconds
Shot 16: 4 seconds
Shot 17: 3 seconds
Shot 20: 3 seconds
Shot 26: Made realtime, reduced to 5 seconds (to match nuit blanche)

Death Effect

Shot 1 -- Plussing, and New Lazy Lizard Sign

Rough composite for shot 9

Thomas Giles - Updated Shot List

Thomas Giles - Shot 15 animatic

Fork and Lady Cowboy's plate

Ok here is my fork and plate. Let me know if I should add a third prong to the fork.

Table top is awful and the perspective is off

Shots 1-7 - What needs to be done (+ing)

Shot 1 - 2ND MOST IMPORTANT SHOT

-------------------roof top------------------

Watertower needs either roof or open top, metal bindings, and better UV. - Ethan

Train needs smoke. - Ethan

Horizon needs to be raised to match accurate Vanishing Point. - Jessica

Small mine and barn need to be added to background. - Jessica

Need better sky with clouds. - Jessica

Add Vulture to water tower. - Brent

Create new Lazy Lizard sign. - Jessica

-------mid level ----------

Add extras in house (woman slapping man) - Stelios & Adam

Add extra on rail (smoking? Leaning? Rolling a cig?) Stelios & Adam

------floor level ----------

Add stagecoach and horse - Heather

Add extras walking by (Lady holding burlap sack/flour? With kid following, old man) - Stelios & Adam

Saloon too dark. Need to see stuff inside. Perhaps extras in saloon? - OPEN

Place too far right, should be closer to center, or at least on Golden Mean line. - OPEN


Shot 2

Extras walking by. 4 people if possible - Stelios & Adam

Girl needs to be moved closer to center, or at least on Golden Mean line. - OPEN


Shot 3/4/5

Extras walking by in background - walking left to right. - Stelios & Adam
Person riding horse. - Stelios & Adam and Heather


Shot 6 –

Anthony’s live footage needs to be re-timed, so his final “step down” isn’t in shot. - OPEN

Camera needs to be moved back, to get more background and Anthony like original, to show extras. - OPEN

Add Fly to Scene and animate - OPEN (fly model on server)

Add Extras walking by to get slowed down. Two men, walking from off shot towards middle. One should be putting on his cowboy hat. - Stelios & Adam



Shot 7.

Film someone stepping in some “real poop." Both runny, and chunky, we'll mix 'em - Stelios & Adam

Shot 8
Add correct table, wine bottle, plate and fork. - Jay, Brent, Ethan, Nathan
Have blurry extra riding horse? or walking by? Or stage coach? - Stelios & Adam & Heather

Shot 9
One extra walking by. - Stelios & Adam

Shot 10
Table, Glass breaking, Refilm Hand so it's in focus all the time and angled better. - Stelios & Adam, Nathan, Jay
Add wine bottle, plate & Fork. Animate the fork bouncing.
Camera should be rotating. - OPEN

Shot 11
Model Opossum leaving anthony's hand. (Does that mean it should be in his hand in every shot leading up to this? Or does it somehow just appear with no explaination?)
Person crossing street?
Slow mo- tumble weed?
Slow mo- bird in sky?
Refilm wagon rider.

Shot 12
Add person in store? Film extra? Beyond that, looks fine to me.

Shot 13
Slow mo extra walking in left of shot.
Camera should be panning out.

Shot 14
Need entire background made.

Shot 15
Need slow motion effects coming out of gun (slo mo spark? Slo mo smoke?)


Gold Tooth Shot
Need extra reacting to gun shot & explosion. Running away with hands over head

Applied Dirt to Shots

VFS & VFX

If you're looking for inspiration and some healthy competition, type in "VFS" and "VFX" into youtube. The Vancouver Film School does it the right way. Check out the breakdown, and you'll see the level of plussing we need for cowboy.

Crow shoot

I will be filming the crow tomorrow (Mon 11/7) at 10am in SLC at Tracy Aviary, just in case anyone wanted to be involved.

UPDATE - So it turns out birds are afraid of green screens. So I had to move the screen way far back, and ditch my lights. I got some shots, but we had to go through 1 crow and 2 vultures before we got anything that looked remotely usable. So I might have a vulture shot we can use. I'll go through the footage and see if any of it is usable.

Thomas Giles - Animatic for Shots 22,23,24

Compiled animatic of Shots 22, 23, 24



Individual Shots

Shot 22



Shot 23



Shot 24

Barrel Splode

Felt the Barrel needed more lateral movement as it explodes. It's not as impressive vertically as the one I showed in class today but I think this might be better overall?

Side View


Top View

Cowboy fly

Rough Composite_2

Here's a side by side of what we have so far. Feel free to leave any notes in the comments. I'll move the nuit blanche vid to upper or lower left for the next rough composite.

Upload yer scenes and assets to the server!

Cowboys and Cowgirls,

Please upload your scenes and assets to the server. Your work is only valuable to the project if it's been uploaded and shared with the group. Even the best modeled poop in the world is worthless crap if it stays on yo' mamma's computer at home. Yes, I said "yo mamma." So please please PLEASE cover your assets and upload 'em!

Thank you.

-Davy Hasselhoff

Dirtying Up

Shots 2, 7, 11

Dirty Windows

Finished adding dirt to the rest of the shots with windows.

Shot 24

The first video matches the timing of nuit blanche, but I think the second one works better. Since it's the last scene does it matter if ours goes a little longer?

Shot 14 - Final Horse Animation?

Cowboy rough composite

Dirty Windows

Shot 2 Table and Shadows

Thomas Giles - More boards and a timed shot list

Shot 14 - fixed horse?

Reflections

What can I do to make these look better?

Sketching Ideas

Nothing Special. Just Ideas I have for scenes to composite and add special effects to.

The Runner rolls out

Sketches

I won't be in class--out of state visiting family.

Shot 14 with horse

Shot 19 - Brent Seavers

Added sky, dirt, reflection, depth in Saloon, Shadow, re-masked driver, and super duper sparkly niceness. Still need to animate shadow, and add more shadow layers. And need to fix Wheels, both motion and cropping.

Getting closer?

I think i'am getting closer to good break. Let me what you think?


Window with frame glass break

1st attempt at a barrel exploding

Compiling Shots

Hey everybody, I'm working on getting all the shots into one After Effects file. When you get the chance, could you save a copy of what your working on to the server where you got the original shot files? Just save it as "Shot_x_new" or something so I know which are the newer versions. Thanks.

-Chris

Shot 2 - Newest Table

Do the shadows of the table/chair and the roof match up? Is the sun shining from the top-right of the screen or more from the direction of the street?

Wine Glass Shatter ver .3

Wine glass shatter version 2a - I applied the glass texture just to see what it would look like, I didn't have time to render the whole thing?


Wine Glass version 3.

Shot 2 - New table, new positioning of objects

3rd Gunshot Attempt, More Reflections

Thomas Giles - Comparison Movie, Storyboards/Animatics, and More Spit

I made this 'picture in a picture' movie for my own benefit to see how the shots compare and to get an idea of the timing.  Thought it might be useful to others.



An idea for the scene where the bullet hits the wagon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And last but not least, More Spit!

I think it still needs more. And it needs to disperse more.