Pre-Production Documentation

Pre-Production

For this upcoming production I decided to partner up with Andrew. I wanted to be able to focus on the role of the cinematographer and VFX artist. As the cinematographer I worked with Andrew on the storyboard. One of the investigations that I did was on lighting which also further educated me in the art of cinematography. I also helped come up with the concept for the film although Andrew did almost all of the writing. With the cinematographer role I was mostly focused on the use of lighting for my blender digital set. This is because I had complete free reign over the lighting for the set since it was done on a computer. The other thing is when working with science fiction color in lighting is key. For my blender project every light that I used was a color. There was not a single white light used to light the scene. As the VFX artist I had to perform every job. Since I was starting from scratch I looked at concept art online for the sci-fi look I was trying to achieve. The look that I was going for was that of a blade runner esc world. Below are a few of the reference images I used.

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