Saturday, April 2, 2011

vfx war - "pirATes aTTack"




Hi Guyz,
This is a CG Tantra Entry for Vfx war Challenge.

One day I come to know about a vfx challenge on the very day I checked that on the website and after reading all the terms I decided to take part in it I shared this to my friends and right there we formed a team name "Team Fx" There were four people in it. we started working without caring about time limitation Because we were taking double classes of different software's.

We did lot of mistakes during this challenge, some rectified and some not because lack of time. But the beauty part of this challenge is that I came to know my flaws. and got comments from the senior people of the industry which matters me a lot. Certainly I will rectify my errors and improve myself in future.

During this project I enjoyed a lot. I will certainly keep on participating in such kind of challenging project because I love to do it.



Judges and Mentor Comments:

Dev Mannemela:
Very nice. I liked the look of the sails on the hero ship. Because of the constant haziness on the rest of the fleet, it's hard to get a sense of depth. I guess you didn't go with the medieval Mumbai idea.. The skyline in the background looks like scyscrapers.. As noted in other shots, the ships seems static. Why is that ?

Sameer:
nice effort..composite issues,ship integration cud be better.some splashes cud have also helped integrate the scene better.



 About Judges and Mentor

Dev Mannemela is interested in the technology and the aesthetics of computer graphics. He has been pursuing his interests in the VFX arena for almost 15 years. After starting as a R&D programmer at Sony Imageworks and continuing on Microsoft | Softimage, Dev joined ESC in 2002 to work on the Matrix sequels. He joined ILM R&D in 2004 and is currently working as Lighting and FX TD at ILM. Some of his recent credits include "Iron Man 2", "The Last Airbender", "Transformer 2" and "Terminator 4".

Dev has a B.Tech (CS) from National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India and M.S (CS) from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

Mentor - Saurabh Sameer [CGT ID - samzen ]
He has been in this industry for more than 5 years when he started his journey in Maya Entertainment Ltd. working for CG and Visual effects projects for both television and films including those of Mangal Pandey Rising, Krishna Cottage, Jack Frost and several television series.

He later joined Veteran Vfx Supervisor Biju D ,and worked for project like the screen award wining Bhoothnath, 3 Idiots, Jhonny Gaddar, Parle Lemon TVC among others. Here as a lead he was involved in supervising the Vfx & Compositing sequences, pre shoot boards and on shoot vfx supervision.

Presently he's a part of a new setup - Earthlink Pictures.