Mary Poutakidis | Compositing Reel

Inspired by Pablo Escobar's sunken plane in the Bahamas. I was keen to test my skills in tracking a plan underwater. Firstly, breaking apart the plane, making it look damaged and partly sunken into the sand and water. The real task was adding the reflections back over the wreckage, which was taken from the original footage. Added a bonus boat for good measure.

The task was to firstly remove the green screen from the selected footage. Then source, add a background and lastly grade the scene. Grading is a key part as it gels the elements together, making the scene look as though this is the way it was originally shot.

Assigned project from CG Spectrum course. Green screen footage of bomb was supplied. The task was to key out the green screen, add motion and fire to the background to give the effect that the bomb was dropping straight into an attack.

The task here was to key out the selected footage and to create a scene. The trickiest part of this was selecting the right background to then start building all the elements onto.

Gave myself the challenge of creating a UI style scene. After carefully keying out the shot, I then added UI elements, which were then graded and made to glow. Adding in glow reflections was a tricky task.

Creating a moving scene from still images. The only footage used in this scene was the fog, all other elements were animated. Including the shooting star, which was created from scratch.

I set myself the challenge of creating a scene based on a 3D plane I sourced. Building the mountain backdrop using multiple layers with drifting clouds in-between. The grade was key in this project and took a lot of time to finesse. I wanted to create the right mood, which would seal in all the elements into the one scene.