A1 Skills & Production

Introduction George Melies George Melies was a magician and film director. He is known for creating and pioneering some of the first vfx. One of his tricks was the substitution splice or ‘stop trick’. He also re-exposed film to compisite multiple scenes together. what is chroma keying? Chroma Keying is the process of removing blue […]

Intoduction The bridge tool. The bridge tool is a tool in maya that is used to easily repair geometry by filling in the space between 2 edges with a face. To demonstrate this, i constructed a simple geometry and deleted some of the faces on the underside. Then, i selected the two edges that were […]

introduction in today’s lesson, i will be editing a basic sequence in premier pro. video editing video is essentially a lot of photographs that are played in sequence very fast. editing video is the act of compiling, secquencing and putting together different clips of video into a linear format. impact of video editing creates narrative […]

Intro. In this lesson, symmetry. Symmetry is the concept that something is made up of exactly the same parts facing each other on an axis. These can be distinguished by a line of symmetry, showing the axis that the parts of the object are facing each other on. Here, you can see that the right […]

Intro in this lesson, we were split into groups each member of the group was tasked with taking at least 1 video and 1 photo using the manual settings on a dslr camera. This was so that we could get used to changing aperture, shutter speed and ISO – as well as allowing the groups  […]

Introduction In this lesson we were introduced to the Duplicate Special tool, as well as the combine and merge (target weld) tool. combining when combining two or more objects together, they become the same mesh, but the geometry of the objects is not changed at all. you can see that the combined geometry is seperate […]

introduction. in this lesson, we created a composition using the skills that we have learnt so far in after effects. In my composition i demonstrated: keying, colour grading, and animating (opacity, rotation, scale and position.) i mainly used the shape, text, pen and transform tool. here are some skills we have learned so far! importing […]

introduction. in this lesson, we created a picture in adobe illustrator which we could then use to animate in after effects. we mainly used the pencil, shape, selection and direct selection tool. using illustrator to create assets. we took an image to create from, and placed it into after effects as a template. from there, […]

Introduction In this session in Maya, we learnt how to extrude a primitive shape along a path. this helps you to make extrusions that are curved – to create pipes, wires and other such objects. We did this using the CV curve tool. Using the CV curve tool.  To do this, you go to the […]