Here is our final submission for Team Spectre! This is my team, click on their names to check out their blogs and great work. And here is...

For this class, I just worked on making some final touches. The changes I made for today were adjusting the material on the wheel well,...

Class 17 Full Video: Smoke Color Iteration: In this iteration, I keyframed the color of the smoke in Maya so that it would start dark and...

Goals for next class... Refine lighting and shadows for Shot 3 Refine comp for Shot 3 (making smoke less dense, black levels, grain ect.)...

Goals for this week... Refine shot 3 comp (blending FX, grain match, ect) Refine atmosphere shot 2 & 3 Continue to refine color grade...

Goals for next class... headlights coming through smoke pass in Shot 3 increasing intensity of headlights in scene and comp render Shot 2...

Goals for this week... Match grain in shot 3 Continue to refine shot 3 comp (car disintegration) Continue to refine lighting for shot 3...

Goals for next class... Refine lighting for Shot 3 (make shadows more vertical / sculpt lighting) Refine atmosphere for Shot 3 (lower to...

Goals for this week: Adjust Shot 3 animation (bring down bounce) Create mask (P pass) to adjust smoke color for Shot 3 Refine atmosphere...

Got lots of feedback from the mentors on our project, the most feedback coming from the lighting for my two shots. We also got a comment...

My final renders for Shots 2 and 3. For this class, the first thing I did was refine the animation for Shot 2 so that it was less jittery...

Since our floating car animation wasn't coming across as planned, I updated the animation for Shots 2 and 3 to have the car going over...

For this class... I did the lighting, animation, and composite for Shots 2 and 3! Here is the gray ball reference on the left and my...

For this class, I finished adjusting the camera for our final shot and finalized the animation so that it would be ready for Sanat and...

We went out to film this weekend so for Class 5, I was responsible for tracking the footage, animating the new car (that now included...

For today's class, I was responsible for updating our previs to have the car floating instead of driving. It was a suggestion we had...

For the very first week, we were assigned our teams and these are the people I have the pleasure of working with over the next 10 weeks....