(Alex) Compositing Academy

A quick VFX Breakdown from a shot out of our newest project: THE RIDER

maybe we're starting the mini greenscreen revolution. Before / After breakdowns. THE RIDER.

@badmonk_uk here it is: youtu.be/KLNmQtwj5Pc?si…

@CompAcademyVFX Put a link to the YouTube video please 🙏

A quick VFX Breakdown from a shot out of our newest project: THE RIDER

Full project: youtu.be/KLNmQtwj5Pc?si…

Difference key VS generated result (generated on bottom). Generated works better here. Yes there's a slight change in motion, but it's actually a usable element as opposed to something unusable.

Creating stock FX easily, using A.I to separate practical FX to clean backgrounds

@elrobles "remove the background but keep the smokey geyser. the result is the smoke geysir over pure black background."

@CompAcademyVFX Very interesting. What prompt did you use for this output?

@DavidGCottam @jadel4w same with film & vfx, people need to start opening their own studios. So much talent unutilized

@jadel4w I wonder why most of this talent just doesn’t try to build their own games.. 🤷🏻‍♂️ there’s clearly a market for non micro transactional games and stuff that’s not market tested to death.. but that’s the hardest part of game dev I guess is wrangling all thes devs in one room 🤣

The brain drain happening in games right now is deeply concerning. Most of my peers in their late 30s and 40s aren’t interested in returning to games once laid off. Their knowledge won’t be passed on. People ask why we don’t just make games like the 2000s through early 2010s? Because most of us are gone or one more layoff from going.

yes, we scanned an entire volcano.

Teaser #2 of what we've been working on for the last months, Full project releasing soon

@bhd1 All of them are stream only through the portal. Spiderverse stuff is definitely very different style of compositing. I worked mainly on the India sequence which was like a hyper saturated coloring book, it was definitely a crazy learning experience!

@CompAcademyVFX Hey Alex! Just curious are your course vids available for download offline? Or are they just available for stream? Also would luv your thoughts on Spider-Noir and the effects on the bad guys as well as maybe nuisances on b/w comping vs color? Thx!

@Roybattyforever so good

No tiene ningún sentido que estos efectos visuales tengan ya 19 años.

@travinhdev flies are the secret trick

ATMOSPHERE! We do that here 🔊📢 800+ sound effects and counting store.steampowered.com/app/3640820/Th…

@ryt_comp Congrats dude!

今日からシニアコンポジターとしてWetaFXで働き始めました。 英語に苦戦中ですががんばります🙂‍↕️

A small teaser, for a much bigger project months in the making. THE RIDER - coming soon.

mini gobos ftw

@TylerJMahoney this one is larger mainly because it involves matte painting + cg environment + dozens of layers of effects + greenscreen integration + moving vehicles, etc. less nodes is always better if you can, but once you're dealing with that many things it will get bigger

@CompAcademyVFX Mine so far have just been pretty basic do you ever have nukes scripts that are relatively small? And thanks so much for the advice dude 🫡❤️

cant imagine doing complex composites in after effects lol

@fedafter12am don't insult my lens dirt

We really gotta take away all the softening filters from modern cinematographers. No more glimmerglass, no more black pro mist, especially no Prism FX dream filters, and certainly no damn Vaseline !

@TylerJMahoney also why it's good to learn good habits early on - if you build spiderwebs it becomes a nightmare.

I've been there haha. Mainly it's just about breaking it into chunks logically. Background, midground, foreground, and cluster related things together. When you look at it that way it's just a bunch of small tasks, instead of one scary tree, and it becomes easy to zoom into any section and understand what's going on and how it relates.