COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
Visual Effects for Student Films as a Career Path as a Visual Effects Producer: A Personal Journey
Creator:
Chu, Diana
Subject:
Thesis (M.F.A.) -- Visual Effects
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Visual Effects
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract:
"There are no formal training programs for students pursuing a career as Visual Effects Producer – the business and administrative head of a Visual Effects production. Nevertheless, a solid education in the technical and artistic methodologies for hands-on creation of visual effects, combined with a pursuit of opportunities for experience with collaborative student film projects, may prepare a student to successfully achieve that path. This thesis will analyze how to achieve an understanding of live-action and visual effects integration from the viewpoint of a Producer, by analyzing the functions of the different elements that make up the visual effects pipeline, and the integration of these in elements in creating a finished film project. Based on the author’s personal experience as coordinator and VFX Supervisor of the SCAD student collaborative films, Void, What was Left Behind, Guppy, Kidnapping and Scarecrow, the thesis gives practical examples of workflow and development in relation to the perspective of Visual Effects Production, and demonstrates how such experience can successfully establish a motivated student onto a career path as a Visual Effects Producer."
Abstract:
*Includes visual effects breakdown of the short film "Void" / directed by Reed Cothron ; visual effects by the author -- a science fiction thriller where a woman trying to escape a disabled starship is confused when she is confronted by her shipmate's double -- along with work in progress on the author's film project "What Was Left Behind" / written and directed by the author, which tells the story of a severely depressed survivor of a hospital bombing who is trying to deal with his grief
Abstract:
Keywords: visual effects, visual effects producer, VFX production pipeline, production scheduling, on-set supervision, post-production, live-action integration, digital compositing, camera tracking, Siggraph, ILM
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2019-08
Format:
1 text file (thesis) : PDF, 34 pgaes, color illustrations + 1 film (5 min.) : WMV, sound, color