Week 1
Introduction to Unity
Real-time environment
1st Assignment
3D photo scanning a real object in Agisoft software and making scanned object into a 3d model in Maya. I choose an old vase from my home.
Next step to creating game environment is to create 3d models to put into my island. I choose to create a low security prison island.
I created a prison tower,prison, table and benches, a dock for boats, outdoor lamps and fence. For prison entertainment I decided to create a basketball area.
Some of the objects are UV mapped in Maya and some are done in Substance painter.
Final Outcome of my Low Security Prison
James Bond title sequence
Week 8
Introduction to After Effects
Green screen in AfterEffects
Independent study
Saul Bass
“I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client understands that that’s worth anything, or that the client thinks it’s worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It’s worth it to me. It’s the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.”
― Saul Bass
Saul Bass was a graphic designer and filmmaker, perhaps best known for his design of film posters and title sequences. During his 40-year career he has worked for some of Hollywood's most prominent filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese.
Bass designed some of the most iconic corporate logos in North America, including the Bell System logo in 1969, as well as AT&T's globe logo in 1983 after the breakup of the Bell System. He also designed Continental Airlines' 1968 jet stream logo and United Airlines' 1974 tulip logo which became some of the most recognized airline industry logos of the era.
Among his most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, the credits racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of a skyscraper in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that races together and apart in Psycho.
Movie title sequences
Title sequence designed by Saul Bass, from the film "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1955), directed by Otto Preminger, starring Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker and Kim Novak.
Title sequence designed by Saul Bass, from the film "It's a Mad Mad Mad World" (1963), directed by Stanley Kramer.
Title sequence designed by Saul Bass, from the film "North by Northwest" (1959), directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason
Bass became widely known in the film industry after creating the title sequence for Otto Preminger's "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1955).
The subject of the film was a jazz musician's struggle to overcome his heroin addiction, a taboo subject in the mid-1950s. Bass decided to create an innovative title sequence to match the film's controversial subject. He chose the arm as the central image, as it is a strong image relating to heroin addiction. The titles featured an animated, white on black paper cut-out arm of a heroin addict. As he hoped, it caused quite a sensation.
Movie posters
After The Man with the Golden Arm, Bass went on to produce title sequences and posters for many of the last century’s most iconic films - Psycho, The Shining, North by North West and Schindler’s List to name just a few.
James Bond Title Sequence making
I choose to follow the theme of James Bond "Diamonds are forever" tiltle sequence. I loved it and decided to make my shorter version.
The creative process in After effects
Keying
To create silhouettes from green screen footages I did some keying with Keylight in this scene to achieve this black & white view. Used Keylight settings to make it seamless and clean, a bit smoothen out to avoid any harsh silhouette lines.
Added a circle shape which expanded in time and shows full view.
The silhouettes background is smoke which I colour corrected to make it light grey.
Here I made a shape and added on top on the cats eye a jewellery video, made the on top video Alpha of the cat video (cat video was on Multiply while jewellery was Add) and made the shape expand to reveal.
More keying shown and color correction, adding text to the scene
PNG circle
This is the intro part that I made only from one PNG circle, I changed its color and added a few of them to the scene, then played around with position and keyframes and thats how they moved around the scene
Expanding the view from previous scene selection, the diamonds were green screen, done keying with color range
More green screen and text, however, I struggled a bit to make the hands over the diamonds, so that the diamonds wouldn't fell on the hands
This scene was a bit tricky to do since Keylight wasn't doing anything so used Color range keying and then I was able to put the bokeh behind the diamond.
More text fading in and fading out.
Later I zoomed in the diamond and added a blur effect to it
References from the original title sequence of "Diamonds are forever"
The original
My interpretation
Final render
Diamonds are Forever
This is my final render.
The video seems good enough for me, I put a lot of time in making it. However, I wish we learnt more techniques in class. By that I mean, I wish we learnt After Effects more in depth, I believe I could have done far more interesting and complex tittle sequence.