3D, CGI, VFX & Editing Services

3D, CGI, VFX and EDITING

To breathe life into a 3D Mesh is nothing less of digital magic. At some point in my life, I decided to join the ranks of 3D wizards myself and so far... it has worked out pretty well!

When you do video editing for 17 years, at some point cutting film material together starts to "just not enough" and using stock green screen material starts to feel stale and unoriginal. 5 years ago I downloaded Blender for the very first time, and you can see the results up above. The pictures represent a mechanical spider S.A.M. which I created for my graduation short film. I modeled, textured, rigged and animated the character entirely myself, as well as put the little guy into my graduation film through means of compositing, accounting for shadows, reflections and light matching.

From Editor to 3D, VFX and CGI Artist

CGI and Compositing

Beyond 3D Characters my graduation short film "Once A Spy" also included several scenes with CGI elements that had to done in post-production. To mention a few:

A Laser Scene, a part of which was filmed as a wide one-shot for amplified comedic effect. For this shot the actors had to be rotoscoped, and integrated between the CGI elements, which include: Lasers created in 3D, Laser emitters that close and open created in 3D, a Key Card Reader also created in 3D. Bloom and Shadows had to be also added in 3D. The shadows of the character in the front were added in Fusion Studio during compositing (3rd image of a node tree). You can see the final composite in the second image.
A "hiding from bad guy scene", which was pretty stale, in terms of decorations, but that was fixed in post-production by adding cables and reconstructing the entire scene in 3D with image projection (5th image).
A scene where a character is being littered with dust and debris from the ceiling. Smoke effects, falling particles and collision models had to be constructed in 3D and then integrated via compositing.
A hologram shot with cables following from the previous shot, which also modeled and composited in 3D.

3D Replacement and 3D Doubles

Due to heavy time constraints during production some scenes had to be done entirely in 3D. The laser scene was missing a "Laser activation" shot and a POV shot.

For the the laser activation shot the actors had to be approximately but very closely modeled in 3D with exact clothing, matching posture and behavior. While it was possible to omit a complete reconstruction for the girl, the man in the background had to be entirely remodeled to preserve immersion. The room had to be also entirely reconstructed, textured matching the interior of the scene and lit in the same fashion as the scene in the film. Finally the scene was animated and denoised with temporal denoising. Turned out pretty great!
The POV shot used the already existing 3D Character Doubles and the lasers already intended for the wide shot "Laser Scene". The UI elements were added in compositing.

The Final Edit

And lastly I present you: "The final Timeline". One might ask "why bother so much?". Honestly, after I heard the audience saying "Wooooow!" during the POV Shot of my graduation film premier... I can only say it's a payoff, that cannot be understood, unless it is experienced. The entire production of a film and heavy post-production with 3D, CGI, VFX and Editing is an incredibly heavy load and I learned to carry it until the very end. A big project might just resemble a dragon, but hey, as long as you are a wizard, it's not as scary anymore. And if you have a team of wizards with you, nothing is impossible.

Animation

Before you move on, meet Mr. Kraken und Theodor. Mr. Kraken being from a side university project, acting as a mascot (fully modelled, rigged and animated by me), and Theodor being a character from a fully animated short film by me and a few friends. The animation and modelling part was done entirely by me as well. There will be links in the project section down below, so stay tuned.