Stanley Sims

11/22/04

Homework 2 – Sequence Compositing

Title

When Computer Viruses Attack…

Description

I wanted to create something funny for this little sequence as well.  I spend more than a few hours in the lab working with computers so why not have a REAL virus attack someone.  I spent some time coming up with a story and a look for the virus.  The virus ended up looking similar to the X parasite in Metroid Fusion for the Gameboy Advance.   Once that was done I drew up some rough storyboards and started filming.

Sample Shots

Matte Images (don’t know why it came out bluish???)

Final Images

Final Thoughts

The animation for the virus was created using a sculpt deformer.  The most difficult part of the assignment was creating the shadow.  I attempted following the tutorial in the book that used the Brightness node to create the shadow.  I finally broke down and used the Drop Shadow node.  I key framed the shadow at certain intervals to fix some of the location/orientation problems it was having.  I added some Film Grain and a little blur to make the virus look like it’s actually in the scene with me.   

Link to Movie

http://www.vr.clemson.edu/~stanles/815/virus_web.mov