Real time rendering is where the 3D scene renders whilst it is being built in real time (hence why its called real time rendering), which...

Once the Painting was finished in Photoshop, the layers were then imported int After Effects and tracked using a motion track and...

To make the footage look like it belongs in the scene, in After Effects the rendered Unreal footage was duplicated and placed over the...

To create the Shadows, duplicate the footage and add a "tint" effect to it which will make it black and white and then mask out the area...

When keying the footage, the first method that was attempted was through After Effects which was an easy, simple method especially when...

In Unreal, the first thing to do was to render out the main 3D part as an alpha channel so that the sky wouldn't render out. This...

Like everything, before starting the actual piece of work, planning and concept art has to be produced. The image on the left is a...

The first shot that was tracked, was the bridge shot. After Effects' tracking was attempted but that didn't go to well with this shot as...

Once the storyboards and previsualisation had been complete, the next step was to actually record the footage that will be tracked and...

Like most things with modelling, reference images had to be gathered to help model an accurate piano. The three images below were the...

The first storyboard is of the bridge shot. the first one is how the shot will start, but as they walk across the bridge the cameral will...

For the VFX assignment, a 3D scene of a town was provided to be used for the assignment. Using this scene, the task is to come up with a...

To start off with, I made a rough base of what the saloon would look like (in Maya) and placed it into my scene in Unreal for pre viz....

The bottes are another bunch of assets I made in Maya. Made these by simply using a cylinder. Here are the biggest inspirations for my 3...

Like with the tables, I modelled the chairs using Maya and exported them to Unreal Engine: Here are the images which I used as reference...

The tables (like a lot of assets) in my scene were modelled using Maya and then imported into Unreal Engine. The first table I made was...

For the lighting, I used a simple directional light, positioned it to the right and lowered it down to get an evening lighting then...

Below is a relatively early version of the scene, in this version only basic cubes were used to represent the buildings in the town to...

In order to capture the whole the wide view of the landscape, I used a focal length of 24 with the aspect ratio of 16:9 to try and give...

My scene was made using the landscape tool which I used to sculpt the surface to make it look uneven so it looked like a believable...