Week - 10 Recap, Review

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In the last class, Richard taught us optional features that we can use in nuke to further help us in our Final Project.

First he taught us about LightWrap Node - can help composite objects into a very bright background by wrapping or spilling light from the background onto the foreground object. The node creates a reflection of light around the edges of your foreground object by blending in whatever is in the background.

The next we learnt Glow Node - Causes bright areas in an image to appear brighter by adding glow using a blur filter. The next is Flare Node - This node simulates lens flares that are created by reflections between lenses inside a film or video camera when the camera is pointed towards a bright light source, such as the sun. 

This class we did nothing practical all we did was see the tutorial that Richard had shared. The afternoon session was nothing but a discussion class.

Final Project Update 
Decided what to do as my Final Project, a character model that gets up after a blackout and walks like a drunkard.
Already obtained the model as well as got the animations that will be used.

This module has shown me the amount of work a technical artist or game designer has to put in when composting/designing a film or game. I always would turn off Ambient Occlusion when playing games without knowing what it did just so I could save some frames thinking it would give me an advantage but now I have a general idea of what is and what it does.

There will be a separate blog on my Final Project.
Location: Kingston upon Thames, UK

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