The Eagle Has Flown

Home, finally.

It's been the longest and best 3 months of my life.

I'm kinda starting to miss L.A. now actually.

Well what I've accomplished during this trip has shown me that anything is possible.

Going to L.A. has made me realize that there's so much more to life outside of Asia.

It's just so... Awesome.

I really don't know how to explain it but the moment I cruised around my neighbourhood with my skateboard earlier, it felt dull unlike America.

Heheh, maybe I just need to get used to the conservative asian surroundings.

So here it is, part my life as a VFX Artist and my lifelong dream to be a movie director.

An attachment to Side Effects Software in L.A.

Success.

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WAIT!

Who said this is the end of my adventures?

In fact, this is just the beginning of my adventures as a VFX Artist!

I'm just taking a short break, chill!

Day 57

Countdown To Departure: 0 day(s)

Tonight is the night we leave L.A. as Champions.

Day 56

Countdown to Departure: 1 day


HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAEL JACKSON!


I grew up with your songs and I'll never stop listening.


R.I.P


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We had one last meal at Denny's for lunch today.

I bought a new Tokidoki cap for myself since it kinda fits my Tokidoki skateboard deck.

Time feels really really slow while we wait for our flight back home to Singapore.

Weekend 12


Countdown To Departure: 2 days

12 weeks have officially passed as predicted in our IAP schedule.

We went out with Steven and Shih Peng to Cheesecake factory for lunch today.

The food was AWESOME.

The cheesecake however was AWESOMER!!!

I know there's no such word as awesomer.

However I typed it out so it counts as a word right?

Day 55

Just for the sake of post consistency I shall post something for today.


Nothing happened.


Just kidding, we went back to SESI again to give our colleagues chocolates since every single one of them have been VERY nice to us.

Other than that if you've just visited this blog, please help yourself to viewing my final output of this project in the previous post before this.

Cheers!

The Presentation

Day 54

The presentation was a success!

I spoke with confidence and I had fun presenting to everyone at the office.

Within time limit of 10 minutes, short, sweet and awesome.

Here are the final outputs:

Project Hellfire: Side Effects Software Attachment Project
Artist: Bryan Isaac Emmanuel
Location: Side Effects Software L.A.
Softwares: Houdini, Nuke, Photoshop
Production Duration: 2.5 months
Deadline: 25th August 2011

Project Completion: 87.5%

Improvements will be made when I feel like working again.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYs_BuitEoc

Shot Breakdown
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok7Gyy_o4yI

Apache Turntable
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEmulFFKmdc

Convoy Turntable
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuZZsI9XhSo

Thanks to the people who made this from impossible to possible:

Mentor
Steven Ong

Side Effects Supervisors
Aliza Sorotzkin
Ari Danesh
Ziggy Ostertag

Special Thanks
Charles Trippe
Dan Bodenstein
Eric Araujo
Evan Boucher
Jia Bao
Lu Sheng
Mohamed Ziyaad
Rap Cheng
Tanner Chow
Zack Zhao

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Since last year December we've been working non-stop since our year 3 modules started along with Studio Project, Final Year Project and Side Effects Software Attachment Project SESI with no breaks at all.

Nine and a half months of non-stop CG action creating visual effects and animation.

Not even a single holiday.

Well guess what,

Our flight back to Singapore is next Tuesday.

Our holiday period finally starts next Wednesday!

Day 53

Countdown to Final Presentation: 1 day

1) Prepare presentation slides. [in progress]

2) Sound FX [done]

3) Set up and render turn tables. [done]

4) Composite passes breakdown demo. [done]

5) Final MasterBeauty Composition Render. [in progress]

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I'm re-rendering the terrain pass because I just realized it had swimming textures.

Yes I may sound calm right now but actually I'm freaking out.

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I'll show whatever I have tomorrow.

I'll improve on project Hellfire when I return to Singapore?