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Critical Practice MA Visual Effects

Critical Report

I started my research by looking into the topic of Virutal Production, but after spendind some time researching this area I couldnt find and questions for reaserch topics that interested me. While looking for other areas I remembered a video I watched by the youtube channel Corridor Crew where they showcased a new technology called NeRFs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX5AoaWrowY).

Mindmap

After watching this video I could immediatly see the potential this could have and began creating a preliminary mindmap.

Nvidia Blogs

The first place I looked to gain information on NeRFs what the NVIDIA blog posts and NVIDIA’s breakthrough with Instant NGP NeRFs.

Books

I also looked for some books in the library that I could use to contrast this new technology with established pipelines.

Papers

And finally I looked into the technical research papers that go into more detail about how to NeRFs work and how they can be used.

Planning Document

Once I had a good foundation on the technology I set out on creating a planning document for my research question.

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Exploratory Practice MA Visual Effects

Exploratory Practice: Week 19

Individual project final storyboard animation

Group project music setup

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Exploratory Practice MA Visual Effects

Exploratory Practice: Week 18

Fliming pt2

Nuke retime

Group project planning

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Exploratory Practice MA Visual Effects

Exploratory Practice: Week 17

Filming

Group meeting roles

Nuke copycat

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Exploratory Practice MA Visual Effects

Exploratory Practice: Week 16

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Exploratory Practice MA Visual Effects

Exploratory Practice: Week 15

Unreal Engine

Retargeting

IK FK

Rendering

Path tracing Ray tracing

Nuke

Implementing smoke, fire and grading

Lower third development

Curves

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Exploratory Practice MA Visual Effects

Exploratory Practice: Week 14

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Exploratory Practice MA Visual Effects

Exploratory Practice: Week 13

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Exploratory Practice MA Visual Effects

Exploratory Practice: Week 12

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Exploratory Practice MA Visual Effects

Exploratory Practice: Week 11

This week I plan to explore London and find locations for my personal project. I want to find locations that are either abandoned or in a brutalist style with some flat concrete walls and open areas that will make it easier to add growing foliage in the future.