Plans for this year

For the graduation work this year, I'm going to help out other teams who need special effects and dynamics. Also I'm making a personal showreel specialised in VFX alongside of helping out other teams. 

Firstly, there is one team who wants me to help their project, Synestheia. I have their script and animatic video but hasn't been made into solid storyboard yet. Below video is the animatic footage of the story.

Briefly, they need mainly 5 scenes of vfx so far.

1. Fireworks and spray paint burst from a door hinge sounds

2. Sparkle and mirage from a kettle

3. Aura around a dog / people 

4. Colours come out from each piano keys

5. Different colours in red when the main character sees the colour.

I planned out which elements of special effect would be needed for each scenes. 

1. Fireworks and emitting different colours of particle
2. Fog and particle. Also developing the idea of making bubbles.
3. Fog which needs different type of texture and colour from normal fog.
4. In this scene, I suggested to make particles surrounding her after they come out from piano keys. This will need curve flow and particle instancing if particles have certain shape.
5. I was thinking it would be nice to make the colour looks like hologram so it can be seen changing from looking in different direction. I think it need some random function for colour of particles.


I will figure out what the most effective way to create these effects will be by research and experiments.

Besides, there are other teams who want effects in their film but they haven't fully decided yet. So I will just practice first and help them later whenever they decide to use effects.

Secondly, for the personal showreel, I'm thinking of making 30sec - 1min sequence of a star in the space from the birth to the death. It will contain all kinds of effects and dynamics, mainly fog, collision, fire, lightning. I still need more research for these and will keep upload the experiments on them.