2024 Student Demo Reel
Welcome to my VFX Demo Reel! As a passionate student in the world visual effects, I've poured my creativity and skills into crafting captivating visuals This reel showcases my journey and some of the projects I've worked on, highlighting my ability to bring ideas to life through stunning effects. I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed creating it!
Making the Rig
This Project began by creating a rig for an F22 fighter jet asset. I had to prep the mesh, create the skeletal structure, and create custom controllers so that I had ease of animating in the future. I used Maya to do this part of the process and prepped it for rendering in Redshift.
Pyro Effects
After getting the assets playing along with each other, I developed my effects starting with the explosions. These were going to be the major eye candy of the shot so I knew that development would need to be started earlier in the project.
Comp
This is where all the elements started coming together and where I began to make small changes to color and light to make the scene whole.
Animation
I had created the animation of the jets and camera which went through many iterations to create the high intensity emotion I desired. Getting the jets in the right position was relatively quick where as getting the camera to feel like it was in the same universe proved to be a challenge.
Extra Effects
After watching iteration after iteration of my project I knew that more elements would be needed to sell the realism of the shot. So I added elements like wing tip vortices, afterburners, and clouds.