I experienced working in a medium sized production company over the holidays. It was great. ZSpace are a medium sized production house near the Power House in the city that specialise in things like ads and promos on tv. In one week I managed to learn so much it’s ridiculous.
They were really helpful and friendly. I worked on an ad that i’m unfortunately not allowed to mention until it comes out in a couple of months.
It was similar to this shot taken from one of their promos for the ABC (C) Zspace. You’ll notice the helicopters moving around the actor.
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I learned all about green screening and integrating plates to be composited into a 3D environment from within maya. I was asked to animate some objects that were flying around actors and because they were filmed infront of a green screen, the ‘plate’ could be brought into Maya and moved around. The green was keyed out so the objects could be positioned more precisely.. The layers were then given to the compositor so it looked nice