a digital gallery by andrew zeneski

It seems like forever since I have been able to post a new entry here, life has been extremely busy. I am working on visual effects for a horror film called Shriven and posted just a couple of the shots to the vfx section of my site. Check them out and let me know what you think!

For this project, I have had the luxury of being able to work with Nuke 5.1 from The Foundry. Having worked with Shake first, I decide to give the PLE of Nuke a try at home before making a fool of myself at the facility. I must say this application is top notch, and having a background in node based compositing made Nuke quite easy to pick up quickly. There are slight differences (mainly in keyboard controls) which annoyed me at first; however now I find it difficult to go back to Shake. I think Nuke as won my heart.

Woops, this little tube somehow snuck into the shot! No problem, let’s remove it!

This updated version of this “monster morph” is now a series of selective color corrections with the addition of a few elements from a picture of the monster to create the “morph” effect.

I was provided two full size image sequences; some light tracking and a corner pin did the trick. A little extra cleanup was added to make sure the scratches and the glare from the original phone footage remained.

The monster in this shot is supposed to deflect a dart being shot from a gun. The dart was modeled in Cinema 4D then composited using Nuke. The compressed air effect and a minor color adjustment was then added.

A simple effect I did for a horror film I am working on, here we have a dart gun; the request was to simply add the “smoke” or compressed air effect.