Project 02 - Photographing Sensation - Places

This project started with 3 days in Wanaka where we were able to get some great footage, I didn't really know where my project was heading at this point but I still got some great footage. At this point it seemed to me like everybody was looking at landscape, and with some of the great footage I got , I figured why not use it.

One of the videos I took in Wanaka was a great slow panning shot that simply took in the amazing landscape. I then decided to go out and get some more footage so I took a trip to Middlemarch to take some shot of the amazing rock formations and open seemingly lifeless barren landscape.
At another point I made a trip to Tunnel Beach and managed to get a few good shots.

Using all footage I had, I singled out the best and with the help of Adobe Premiere, and after deciding for music or no music, I went with no music, and managed to make myself  a finished video.  I'm definitely glad I went with no music as it took away from the sense of peace and calm I was trying to embody.

Project 01 - Resolved

For my final works I looked at the Idea of Creating a lifeless, seemingly emotionless character. with closed eyes and no hair, I tried to create realistic but obviously not real face. I then used Autodesk Maya to play with lighting and Photoshop to add simple backgrounds to try and convey emotion through feel of the image rather than the look on the face.

Project 01 - Research

For this project I begun looking into to digital 3D modelling artists and I found so many amazing works, here are just a couple of the many I found.

The Artist Himself - CG Artist: Piotr Wysocki

Portrait of Nicolas Cage - The Moment - CG Artist: Qian Xie

The works of these artists, among countless others from around the world, just goes to show the amount of realism that CG portraiture can achieve, at this point I lack the knowledge of how to technically achieve this realism, especially in things such as eyes and hair, so i'll have to make do with my current knowledge and do what I can.