VFX Senior Thesis: Azalea's Crown

Concept:

An episode opening sequence for a television series based off of an unpublished novel series by Scarlette Masons, "The Elemental Kingdom Chronicles"

***Updated as worked on***

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UPDATE 1

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11/6:

• Base model for bottom ring of crown

Moving Forward:

• Finishing base model

• Modeling gems

• Texturing

Original Concept from Storyboard/Animatic:

Bottom Ring of Model:

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UPDATE 2

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11/7:

• First pass of design

• Augmented for concept changes after original concept

Moving Forward:

• Modeling gems

• Texturing

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UPDATE 3

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11/10:

• Base Model for Animatic

Moving Forward:

• Finishing base model

• Modeling gems

• Texturing

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UPDATE 4

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11/11:

• Animatic Prelim Texturing

Moving Forward:

• Modeling gems

Base Metal Texture:

Texturing in Maya for Animatic (Including Gem Placeholders):

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UPDATE 5

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01/24:

• Model cleanup

• Bringing in leaf and prong assets from tiara

Moving Forward:

• finished cleaned model

• gemstones

• texturing

• animation

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UPDATE 6

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01/28 - 01/30:

• Completion of crown model

Moving Forward:

• texturing

• animation

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UPDATE 7

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02/02:

• Texturing

• Gemstone textures

Moving Forward:

• Test Render

• Animation

Gold:

Diamonds:

Placeholder Shaders:

Final Gem Shaders:

Details:

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UPDATE 8

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02/03:

• Test render

Moving Forward:

• Animation

https://video.wixstatic.com/video/bed8ee_b8252d3752164fb7ae35a99072b59fd4/1080p/mp4/file.mp4

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IMPLEMENTATION TO SHOTS

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Click here for progress blog

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