VFX for Miniatures Part 3: Storm FX, Simulation, Color Finishing & Final Comp
Setareh Samandari & Habib Zargarpour
Complete your practical-to-digital VFX shot in the final installment of this 3-part series with VFX artists Setareh Samandari (Vertical, Dark Asset) and Habib Zargarpour (Twister, The Perfect Storm). In Part 3, they'll show you how to bring every element together through compositing, lighting, adding effects, and color finishing — from refining keys and rotos, to integrating storm, rain, fog, and splash FX, to generating fluid sims and rendering final passes in Maya, Unity, and After Effects — all leading to the fully realized cinematic composite.
Curriculum
1. Title & Introduction - 3min
2. Reviewing Key and Rotos in After Effects - 9min
3. Importing the Ocean and Working on the Alpha Matte - 24min
4. Lighting and Color Correcting with Maxon - 19min
5. Checking the Adobe Media Encoder Rendering for Further Work - 5min
6. Gathering Storm Elements from ActionVFX - 15min
7. Applying and Editing Pre-Made Splash Elements in After Effects - 14min
8. Applying and Editing Pre-Made Rain & Fog Elements in After Effects - 11min
9. Adjusting 3D Tracking of the Octopus in Autodesk Maya - 23min
10. Refining and Rendering Lighting Elements in Unity: Matte Pass - 19min
11. Refining and Rendering Splash Pass in Unity - 24min
12. Matching Lens Distortion Using Mesh Warp - 10min
13. Adjusting Matte for the Final Comp - 13min
14. Editing Colors in Supercomp - 27min
15. Fluid Simulation Set Up in Maya - 12min
16. Generating the Fluid Simulation in Maya and Arnold - 15min
17. Reviewing the Final Comp - 3min
18. Wrap Up - 2min
Materials
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