Final Week! Full video with FX breakdown of my shots We got minor tweaks earlier this week to fix some glowing highlights and logo blending in with background, but our great Comp artist, Zachary Malich, fixed it right away. Here is complete breakdown of all shots from FX to look dev, to lighting, to compositing

Weaving Effect - Technical Breakdown The weaving pattern was created using two grid systems: vertical threads (blue) and horizontal threads (red), following a traditional over-under weave structure. Visibility & Pattern Control: An attribute wrangle controlled weave visibility based on color values. When Cd.r < 0.9, the geometry displayed the first weave pattern (off-camera layer). When Cd.r > 0.9, it switched to the second pattern (on-camera layer). This binary threshold cr

TUKUY - A short film following a jaded mother tree grappling with her sense of purpose As CFX Lead on this project I was responsible for creating the hair groom based on concept art, setting up tools for simulating the hair, and maintaining a USD pipeline during the on the CFX portion of the film. Animation by Madison Jennings. Character Model by Sania Khullar Animation by Delphine Peck. Simulation by Kendrick Lam and Mia Laplanche overview Created main character, Sacha's, ha

CRITIQUE FROM MENTORS: Add throw blanket on top of comforter sim for shot 6 Material of mattress with sheet needs update in Shot 6, light wrinkles in texturing etc. Less soap boar, less stick of butter. Brighten up backgrounds of Shot 3 and 5A to match lightness of the room John Montefusco from Framestore visited our class during the week. He suggested shot 2 have more evident hair fuzz as it looks too procedural without it. Lighting and comp critique Shot 1 too dark Shot 3 a

Weaving Week We chose Shot 1, our weaving/threading shot as our sub hero shot so need to put some extra attention on it. Last week I added the thin to thick fix by request of the lighting artists who said it would be easier if the weaving started thin lines and the when it actually arrived at the pattern it would be the thicker cross section. In figuring that out, I didn't notice the hair no longer followed the weave pattern perfectly and was instead jittering with all the mo

Mentor Critique: FX refinement Vellum for pillows smoother Comforter FX match look of final comforter in shot 7 (edges etc) Delta Mush and Vellum post process spatial blur TO DO: Lock frame ranges and send to sound design Troubleshooting render farm for shot 1 FX refinement shot 5A,B and Shot 6 Latest Video Our compositor, Zachary Malich , and Lighter, Ella Lawlor , did a great job executing the final look for shot 1 with the materials, color grading, vignette etc. Unfortuna

CRITIQUE FROM MENTORS: Vellum refinement less evident ghost constraints Beck suggested doing pre roll run up off camera and the release constraints once it comes in overall softer constraints, playing with bend and stretch stiffness more time for settling before moving to next shot kill ease in ease out between shots for better transitions TO DO LIST TEAM: Lighting refinement, overall softer lighting to showcase soft FX Material refinement FX refinement Live action shoot and

Critique from Mentors: Vellum sim Try attach to scattered points and the play with bend and stretch of  attach to geometry constraint Attach to points Attach/pin to itself and have it sim to itself Faster bed laying, quicker layer, not one after the other, multiple cloths on screen at once Cloth coming over the camera, and having animation happening behind it aswell, quicker scene Comfy bed, needs to be less messy Make comforter less big lowkey, not splayed out on floor Need

To do list TEAM: Lighting Transitions between shots Camera FX refining Friday Feb 6th preliminary shoot date Need to find actor ASAP Final decision on switching from arnold to karma Sound design 2nd Pass To do list PERSONAL: Develop shot 1 final weaving pattern camera movement slowing overall motion down hair gen optimizing and caching Develop shot 4: Cozy comforter simulation Overall cloth simulation Deciding between not doing simulation and just doing pan out to sculpt of b

We presented our pitch at the beginning of the week and now we are going to implement the following feedback: Less saturated lighting Overall mood and color choices Better references for lighting Overall in class they were encouraging macro camera shots So the team started gather reference for better lighting, exploring switching up shot composition and using more AI assistance for ideation and shot exploration. For FX we used a bed sheet and played around with different move

SCAD x Habor x ETC This week we got into our teams of 5 and decided on a pitch to present next week The theme was high tech/high end and needs to incorporate some use of AI in the process. We chose to do a luxury bedding commercial to incorporate cloth fx using Houdini vellum and light hair generation for close up shots of the sheets. Here is our pitch animatic: Team: I will be taking care of Vellum cloth FX, threading FX shot, and hair generation Zachary Malich Compositing