DAILY BLOG
Being an artist depends on the ability to adapt to an ever changing world.
To do this I continuously blog on Instagram with drawings and research - studying my surroundings to polish my craft while also having fun.
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We Before jumping to Maya we need to take some essential photos to make it easier to translate information from reality to CG. If we don't, then we have to merely guess, and fumble around eye balling a photo.
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Prepping the photos
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-Clean Plate
The fresh background to use when integrating CG objects
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- Cube
An indicator to help line up perspective in CG later
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-Sphere neutral
To help distinguish the direction and strength of light
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- Shadow
This shows how surfaces will look in shadow
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HDR - High Dynamic Range images
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In order to capture accurate lighting environment and reflection to be used in CG, we have to take a photo of a chrome ball or through a fisheyelens with multiple exposures.
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Capturing a chrome ball (I used a small garden sphere from Amazon for about $12) and used 7 images with different exposure steps to get a large range of light information.
Merging in Photoshop
Spherize Transform in Nuke
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The fresh background to use when integrating CG objects
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Matching scene environment to match real life
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Calculating Camera data to fit CG Maya environment
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​Properties
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Digified.net/focallength
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Within Maya render settings , matching render side to image,
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Create new camers go to camera shape to the correct focal length
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