Sticky Note

Type

Short Film

Role

CG Lead, VFX Artist
Environment Designer

Date

July 2023 - August 2023

Description

When confronted by a Private during the final moments of doomsday - the Director banks it all on a mysterious phone number scribbled on a sticky note.

Short Film
Environment Tools

Blueprint to randomize the arrangement of the objects on a table. The desired configuration could be saved by clicking a button to spawn the meshes into the world. This assisted the artist to make minor adjustments to the group manually and make minor adjustments.

ICVFX Tools

An interactive visualizer was created to show camera information including the following:

  • Shot Name
  • Focal Length
  • Aperture
  • Distance to subject
  • Distance from floor

This was used to match the physical camera to the virtual camera as much as possible to get the shot that was visualized from the storyboards and shot listing.

Visual FX

Controlling the speed of flickering lights and the monitors using a single value.

Chaos Destruction using building meshes and the playback based on keyframes.

Created a blueprint to spawn rock meshes with randomized properties to interact with the environment using physics. Take Recorder was used to record the location data allowing us to play back the animation.

Performance Capture

We used an Xsens Link suit along with the MetaHuman Animator pipeline to capture the performance of the actor. The animations were retargeted for the MetaHuman skeletons and baked into a Control Rig.

Actor to MetaHuman Animator
Actor to MetaHuman Animator

Additional Media
Actor to MetaHuman Animator
Actor to MetaHuman Animator
Actor to MetaHuman Animator
Actor to MetaHuman Animator
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