
Hi! My name is Aniela and this is my MA Visual Effects 2025/2026 blog. Welcome:))
Last Thursday, we officially started working on our long-term Nuke project. We are meant to create a Balloon Festival scene, which will give us a chance to put to use the knowledge acquired during the weekly Nuke tutorials. We were asked to kick-start the project by first rotoscoping the mountains on the provided exr sequence,…
Instead of having the regular VFX Fundamentals tutorials on the 27th of October and the 3rd of November, we spent our Mondays getting familiar with 3DEqualizer. This leading tracking software is extensively used within the VFX industry and helps to seamlessly merge live-action footage with digital visual effects or elements. Personally, I attempted tracking only…
I have always viewed Nuke as an extremely powerful software which opens the gates to numerous new ways of approaching VFX, 3D Animation and Motion Design. In the past, I found it too intimidating to try on my own because of all the tools that it provides. Now, however, I see that with the right…
INITIAL BLOCKOUT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
This is my take on the Critical Practice blog post task. We were asked to choose a film and a. break down the story arc, b. break down the characters into their archetypes, and, c. create a timeline for the character starting before the beginning of the film. I chose Challengers (2024) by Luca Guadagnino,…
This is my first-ever 3D model done in Maya.