SCAD X Harbor Picture Company: Week 01

This week SCAD X Harbor Picture collaboration class officially kicks off. I'm very happy since it is the first time I worked in a group project and grateful for having the chance to learn among other artists.

Team Roles:

• Ben Jones - Virtual Production

• Yejin Eom - Lighting/Look Development

• Jingxing Liu - FX

• Tianze Xu (me) - FX

• Katherine Faye Nitti - FX/Virtual Production

• Julian Schenker - Lighting/Composition

During the brainstorm phase, we explored several commercial concepts. Team name is decided to be Rouge, which is red in French. It is also related to the product we chose. Christian Louboutin high heels with red bottoms are decided to be what our commercial on about. As Professor Bridget Gaynor suggested, in the high heels we are going to work on changed from red bottom to golden bottom.

Storyboard:

Storyboard created by Katherine and Yejin

Pre-Visualization:

After shots are settled down, me and Jingxing worked on making pre-visualization of shots.

• Yejin: Shot 01, 02, 05, and 07

• Jingxing: Shot 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, and 06

• Tianze: Shot 03, 04, 05, and 07

• Katherine: Shot 01, 02, 03, and 04

• Julian: Shot 03, 04, and 06

Tianze(Me)'s Version:

Tianze's Version 01, Unreal 5.5

Tianze's Version 02 - Shoe Focused, Unreal 5.5

Jingxing's Version:

Jingxing's Version 01, Maya 2022

The final version we made is a combination of mine and Jingxing's pre-vis.

Final Version:

Final Version

Conceptual Art:

Since we are changing from red bottom heels to golden bottom ones. The previous red bottom reference picture won't be appropriate anymore for presentation and expected effects in this projects should be shown. So we created a new conceptual art based on what we have by now.

Conceptual Art:

Created by Jingxing and Yejin

References:

For the effects we decided to deco style geometric shapes spreading effects in Houdini for first 2 shots in full CG style. For shots 3, 4, we will do dissolving effects for LED Volume Stage. Shots 5 and 6 will be done by paparazzi flashlight effects in dark spaces but shot 5 will create as full CG and shot 6 is for LED Stage. Shot 7 will involve particle effects.

Spreading Effect References:

Spreading Effect References

Dissolving Effect Reference:

Dissolving Effect References

Paparazzi Flashlight Effect Reference:

Paparazzi Flashlight Effect References

The environment is set to be a Parisian street and lighting should match daylight at dusk.

Environment and Lighting References:

Parisian Street Mood Board

Street Layout by Julian

Extra Thoughts:

Jingxing mentioned we can do a shot of model blowing golden particles away as the transition to high heels scene in shot 7.

References:

Reference 01

Reference 02

Shot 7 Particle Effect Renference

Looking forward to share more progress in next few weeks!