My VFX blogs

As i am a look Dev Artist for this group project i am only tracking the footage in order to show that i am capable of tracking within 3DE.

I will track the footage

bring it into Nuke Compositer

Add some tracked Objects

Export file and place here

Opening up 3DE equalizer R7

Importing footage into the project

Beginning Tracking of file

Add contrast tio help track

Begining tracking everything.

I know have 27 points tracking forward

i will now track the rest of the points backwards

i now have just under 100 trakcing amrkers

Currently my number is too high, i want to get it down to 0.5000 range, to ensure it is accurate enough to track within Nuke.

I will do this by removing and improving certain trackers within the project.

this should smooth out the graph and ensure there are not gaps in the calculation graph as well as seen above.

My points are now under 0.6000 meaning it is accurate enough to begin the process of adding the lens distrotion info provided by christos.

Now i am adding the lens distortion measurements to ensure that the tracking is accurate to the camera it was filmed on.

I will now add some geometry to help with the import to Maya.

File ready to be exported and imported into Maya.

these are my tacekrs

Just had a discord meeting with dom

his main points to me were

• track the edges fo the room
• ensure that equalizer is able to understand the corners and walls of the room
• end points that go out of frame and then restart them if they come back in
• aim to have points all long the floor against the wall and each corner of the room

After this short call i was able to get a fresh perspective eon how to track this properly and i am now feeling more confident in getting it done.

This is a better reference as it highlights all the locations that need to be tracked better.

im planning to use the contrast in image controls to help point these markers.

Import .FBX file

Ensure there are no duplicate objects

Rename Objects properly

make sure hyper shade is tidy

UV’S Laid out

ready for textruing

Applied UV to all objects within

Export and bring into substance

• design of coffee table needed to be changed
• the vertices of the hole in the middle of the table became quite difficult to manage fro our scene
• today i will be removing the hole in order to make it easier to place within the scene.

• Removing hole in the middle with Ctrl + Backspace
• straighten out edges
• and bridge all gaps

• add edges back in
• tidy up edges and ensure all bridge is done accurately
• all new multi cuts are too the edge properly

• new table top without hole in the middle
• clear history
• freeze transforms
• redo UV’s

• Creating new UV to ensure that texture displays properly
• Export and Open the file in Adobe Substance 3D Painter

Added a Fill Layer and using a smart texture add “iron Pure” texture

add a second fill layer wiht a black mask to add alpha rusty texture

Adding “Grunge Dirt Scratchy” on a second fill layer, snapping to object and putting it in “Horizontal Tiling” tiling mode to cover the object.

Rename Layers

Result of Texturing In Adobe Substance Painter

Added back Into Maya and Exported

Maya file and .FBX file uploaded to group google drive

This is the redsign of the table legs.

I decided to go back and retry a simpler design.

I have decide to model the table first. the reason for this is one of my group members needs it as a reference for her work.

i also really like the desing and want to start here

I am using this model to reference the scale of the table.

• the table will be like a coffee table size rather than a desk.

• This is the glass layer on top
• it has multi-cut and then segmented edges
• AI standard surface – glass – color blue
• 50% replacement to ensure glass is see through

• Create a shape that will compliment the glass on top
• snap object to glass
• add multicut sections and segments to follow original design concept and theme

• create a negative section
• add beveled edge – 1 section
• texture

Texture using UV Editor in order to get a more interesting look that is more on theme.

This was the texture i chose (referenced below)

• connect nodes within hypershade.

texture applied to shells

Currently building the leg of the table, which will follow the sharp edged theme.

the leg must be

• metallic
• sharp edged
• angled and similar to the cutout of the table
• low to the floor like coffee table
• duplicated

Leg made originating from a cube,

• 10 subdivisions added
• shape to rectangle
• move vertexes to add angles
• using multi cut add shapes negatively to fit theme
• extend legs from balance
• bridge all gaps
• AI standard surface – metallic

• i was happy with the result although Daniel pointed out that the inside of the legs were bridged from top to bottom therefore the faces were not aligned properly and could cause problems later on
• i went back and fixed this
• this was not a visual issue but may cause issues later on if adjustments were required to be made.

Final Result

• Checked with my group that they were happy with the look and scale.
• Viewed through Arnold Render View

• show transparent wireframe
• group object
• snap to grid
• ensure that the legs are consistent with the ground

• Group
• Rename – Lowfi_DOM_coffeetable _1

• export the project to a specific folder
• choose FBX export (this image shows the wrong one, but it was exported as FBX)

Drop the FBX Version 1 file into the group google drive.

References