In this assignment, I followed the steps required by the instructor step by step, which helped me to understand how a complete synthesis process works.

For example,

1. I need to stabilize the lens and add “lens distortion” which is a very important step to reduce the distortion of the lens and make the composite image more professional.

2.clean the markers in the original video clip, by using “rotopaint” and “frame hold” together.

3.Modeling the mechanical model in Maya. At the beginning, gonzalo suggested us to find some reference images, which really helped us to understand the model. In particular, when I was modeling I would look at the reference drawings, which gave me more detail.

4.I used Houdini to create the lightning effect, this was a very challenging step. Houdini is a very difficult software in my opinion, I needed to combine it with some tutorials on the internet to realize my idea, especially the “line” node was very useful.

5.Last but not least I made some ice crunching effects in ue5 and imported them into nuke, but I rendered them without shadows, which made my effects look very fake. So I added another layer in nuke and changed the value of “grade” and added “blur”.