San Jose Short Film Festival Extra Credit

--San Jose Short Film Festival Receipt Photocopy--

Definitely, worth going. A lot of great shorts which were both inspirational and powerful! Something to see for sure. One day left! I highly recommend it. Entry fee will be 8 dollars. A reasonable price to pay for what you get in return!

Creating Stereoscopic 3D Images

A lot of experimenting with this one. Took many shots. A lot were failures. But eventually had a few successes after eventually getting a hold of a tripod and learning to use layers in Adobe Photoshop. Found a number of different strategies to working with lighting, composition, and the various perspectives within my images.

Most of the images are in red/cyan but one can be viewed in green/magenta. Often times you may have to flip the glasses around as well since I experimented a lot with rotation and shifting of the anaglyph stereoscopic images.

-Only a handful of the images I have taken which I found decent enough to post-

EXPERIMENTS THAT WORKED (Best viewed if enlarged by clicking on image):

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For image above use either the green/magenta or red/cyan glasses

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ONES THAT STOOD OUT TO ME (Top Choices):

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Thanks to Jeanette for helping out! Shot on campus near event center.

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I like the way the dresser is in perspective as well as the different uses of stuffed animal/subjects (interacting with one another within the composition which creates a story while giving off a eye-popping-depth like appeal)

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The lighting effect and the way the chandelier pops out at you in relation to the kitchen in the background gave a very tangible/engaging experience.

Lighting a Scene in Maya

I actually did it! And remodeled my original initials from the previous assignment (rounded edges and added texture/color so it is much more aesthetically pleasing and geometrically accurate.

The design of my initials didn't take as much time as the lighting though. Spent a whole day/night trying to perfect the single point/two point/three point while maintaining similar camera angles as well as accurate lighting techniques and transition into each new setup.

I am a film major and have had prior experience in Grip & Electric so I understand the concept of lighting pretty well (though I know I will always have room to learn more). I did not have previous experience in Maya but learned through tutorials and the tips of others. So I managed to complete my project and am quite satisfied overall.

Thank you again for another opportunity for new experiences.

ONE-POINT LIGHTING:



TWO-POINT LIGHTING:



THREE-POINT LIGHTING: