FX Reel 2021 - Remy Vu +

A wild Charizard appears! ⁓

I was having fun playing with fire on this one! It was the perfect opportunity for me to practice with the pyro solver and all the microsolvers that it offers. The real challenge was to combine all the FX to make them look believable and suitable to the animation. Adding these extra details (RBD, debris, shockwave smoke, ...) brought a lot to the final sequence. I was hoping to refine them more, but the time frame was too short to go further. However, it was such a pleasant journey.

Also, worth mentioning that doing the compositing helped me to know more about optimizing my render and which AOVs are the most useful for my FX.

Animation with sound

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Awaken - Visual Concept ⁓

This mysterious place was born from a base concept that I did for school. A strong usage of pop solver, random velocity, scattering techniques was involved. The portal uses particles as a base and then, once converted to volume: magic! The compositing part played a lot in the process. It is also one of my first project done in ACES.

I tend to do simple and efficient setup (as possible) 

Animation with sound

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Qianlima 천리마 - The Mythical Horse ⁓

I have never tried my FX on something moving "fast" so this project was perfect. A lot of struggle about stepping, optimizing, and so.. but I still managed to make it work somehow (tried to match references). Even if there is a long way to go, the result is pretty fun and I am happy with the outcome.

Animation with sound

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Free Fanany ⁓

This one is a special project, I was in charge of the FX and the compositing. The hardest part was to do the cloud interaction. It is subtle on this shot, but it will help me later. Also, creating smoke on the creature was not an easy task either. However, it taught me a lot and I will continue to improve in this field.

Concept / Color-key from my friend J.-B. Ollivier

Various compositing techniques used (3D projection, AOV usage, relight, ...)

Vision of the Bad Omen ⁓

The prediction seems not very reassuring..
A sweet project where my main focus was the lighting/mood. Also, it was pleasant to work every aspect of it (modeling, sculpting, FX, and so...)

Animation with sound

Main references

Premonition ⁓

I love compositing but as a busy FX artist/generalist, it's one of my weak skill where I am trying to improve whenever I can. This project especially helped me in the keying process and how to manage color correction.

Animation with sound