Hasta La Motion!

Sorry, some tedious questions coming up, so please indulge me. I’ve looked at show reels and researched definitions but I’m none the wiser.

I keep saying I want to be an VFX Compositor but if I really think about it, I’m unsure where a Compositor job starts and ends.

If for example you have a close-up shot of a foot stepping off a kerb, and you want to make that foot look like it’s stepping in a puddle, and you want the puddle splash to be in slow motion. Who would create the slow motion water?

What about someone walking through glass with no glass there previously? Who creates the window and the subsequent broken glass?

What about a bullet hole needed in a wall or body?

And finally. What about adding a lamp post or a park bench?

Is the Compositors role just to combine all the elements and they’re given everything by an VFX Artist or is there some CGI creation involved for the Compositor?

I’m talking about on a high end commercial or film work where there are lots of bodies and departments working on a project.

Thank you.

So I’ll try and start a new one from where I left off and hopefully get some more advice from the original repliers or from some new people.

So, no Sydney TAFE course, too much animation and apparently a waste of time.

I could learn Shake but as Gravy suggested it’s becoming obsolete, I think I’ll get straight into Nuke and not dilly dally.

You’re right Tommy138, I envisaged myself doing high end commercials and films. I want to be part of something big. The escape studios online
course looks good. I’ll do some more research.

I’ll add the video copilot tutorials to my list of resources. I see your point yakuzowner, Nuke will probably be quite daunting at first and a steep learning curve but worth it in the end. I’ll also look into Light and Rendering courses. I’d always planned on increasing my Photoshop knowledge. I agree, along with AE these will be good backbone skills.

Before I go, looking at the escape online course http://www.escapestudios.co.uk/online-vfx-courses/ , it appears very Maya based and to be honest I’m a bit hazy on Maya’s usefulness as a compositors tool. I know it’s an end to end workflow but how much does it feature in a compositors working day? At £6500 do I need to learn Maya 3D? And what is an VFX Artist, the same as a compositor?

Thanks everyone, with your help I’m now starting to get a better understanding of what I need to do in order to reach the foot hills of this mountain I’m about to climb.

Wondering if one of these 2 (looking mainly at CPU, video cards, and RAM) would be a decent starting comp for VFX:

http://www.staples.ca/ENG/Catalog/ca…affixedcode=WW

http://www.staples.ca/ENG/Catalog/ca…affixedcode=WW

If ur wondering why staples? they lease. My computer basically cant do **** so let me know if these could at least do WELL with how they come, and if upgrading the Video card down the road would help etc.

Cheers

If I use a DisplaceGeo using a depthmap then I run into issues of the depthmap not lining up. I’m assuming this is because the differences of simply projecting versus UV.

So I switch the UVProject which lines up better but now the image seems to be changing size in the areas that are shifted from the displace.

Is there a way I can use a 3D generated depthmap to do a real 3D displace (displaceGeo) and have the image be the same size throughout but simply offset in Z so a camera slightly off axis will see that z difference?

I know I can fudge by using iDistort but I’d like to get an accurate representation with the correct image at the correct plane.

Thanks.