I was using Mantra renderer for this lighting and material practise, and I really want to compare its performance with Arnold renderer.
HDRI environmental light, area light, 3 types of materials (main body, hammer and grid)
Final version with mock iPhone:
Final Version:
This assignment was completed by both Nuke and Aftereffect. 3 shots of footage were selected to use in final version.
For this assignment, I was thinking about doing an Instagram Story advertisement with 10s only, which is fast in pace, bold in text, and high in saturation. Hopefully, pretended to be a eye-catching ads for young generation audience with short attention span.
However, time is limited for me to do extra retouch or cleanup in this assignment. If I could gain more time on this, I will cleanup in Nuke for the fingerprints and dirt at the 360 full shot of the product. And add extra lighting for enhance its shininess.
With some resources on Google, combined with simple graphics and motion, everything is done by Nuke.
For a weather forecast similar to this, chroma key commonly used in filming because the color is not present in skin tones and is not commonly worn by people. Therefore, as the main character, Louis, was not wearing green outfits, it is easier for me to use Keylight to remove the green screen.
Combined with other elements I found online, to show info at the lower third graphic and a list to show next week weather, the result is satisfying to show as a weather forecast I saw on other typical TV program.
By the way, I found this blog quite useful to gather the most common Nuke shortcuts that I need.
Turning Red (2022)
Meilin (voice of Rosalie Chiang) is a confident, dorky 13-year-old torn between staying her mother’s dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming (voice of Sandra Oh), is never far from her daughter – an unfortunate reality for the teenager. And as if changes to her interests, relationships and body weren’t enough, whenever she gets too excited (which is practically ALWAYS), she “poofs” into a giant red panda.
By IMDB
Articles related to this topic:
https://www.cbr.com/ways-turning-red-like-encanto-ways-different/
https://www.mic.com/p/why-do-animators-keep-turning-people-of-color-into-animals-65481570
https://www.wired.com/story/turning-red-is-pixars-most-personal-movie-yet/
Comparing to the earlier one of Disney animated film with Asian character, Mulan(1998).
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41819264
https://www.castlescapesandclones.com/post/a-look-at-people-of-color-in-disney-animated-films
Why are there some similarities in visual element and story setting ?
Why Disney presents Asian in these ways?
Is there a Disney “formula” to tell a Asian story?
Is it a stereotype or is it a generally acceptable by Asian?
Why is there only “one-single type” of Chinese, Disney is trying to depict?