Final Undergraduate Project

       I had a very interesting time with my final year project, for as much as I was not only writing a thesis on “Study and evaluation into visual graphics effects in multimedia related Industries” but I was working on 4-5 minute short movie clip filled with superimposed visual effects. And that’s not all; I also developed a 3D particle system emitter in OpenGL.

Abstract: 

       This project is analysing computer based visual effects within all current multimedia platforms. Many people take into consideration just an envelope of these visualizations but never think what is underneath the scope and how those were prepared. Moreover, the project provides evaluation of particular effects, study into them and looks for various and simple solutions for recreating big production scenes, analysing its visual outcome, development and functionality.

Final animation (with soundtrack):  This short experimental abstract animation clip is a part of undergraduate project for Computer Graphics at University Of Bedfordshire. It is my first try with superimposing 3D effects and animation into pre-recorded video image and use of matchmoving software.  The story is around young man surrounded by chaos, who feels lost and is in middle of process to finding his ideals and values, which could fulfil his lost soul. After experiencing joys of existence in a form of nature/life he moves through fragments of friendship or potential affection by meeting a girl. Those acts are not filling his lost interests till the point he spots a guitar as a symbol of music and melody, which completes his journey of finding himself.  Fluid storytelling through motion and superimposed effects trying to express the chaotic world we are living and uplift the importance of ideals. Addition: At 0:25 second on yard could be seen a basic 3d object, namely Utah Teapot (made in 1975 by Martin Newell one of the main pioneer in computer graphics research). Objects is placed there as a reference for Newell teapot as a honour to computer graphics community  Addition: I'm aware of the unwanted artefacts / errors, most of them are caused by the poor video quality of the original recordings due to bad camera settings for as much as at that stage I was not familiar with particular device, had limited functionality and no time to figuring out the proper settings as I was able to use it just for one day. First shots were made at the beginning of the project. The workflow progressed with the knowledge of particular software the quality of visuals raised.  Software used: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effect, Autodesk 3D Studio Max 2009, LLC SynthEyes  Music: Lamb - gorecki (C) Copyright WMG 1997 Content owner: Koch Entertainment

Above is an example composition chart of how different passes are joined together to produce those superimposed effects.

Inside the mind: Example from development process.

I will discuss 3D OpenGL particle emitter in next post.