Introduction

Our idea is to create two CG dreamful scenes with amusement park elements on an alien planet. In this project, we will do modeling in Maya and compositing in Nuke, we will also discover and try different renderers such as Arnold in Maya, V-Ray or Octane in Cinema 4D, and see which renderer has the best result. 

We are not familiar with Cinema 4D at all, but as more and more people are using this powerful software, we realized that it’s necessary for us to grasp more skills in different software. We will do some experiments with particles in Cinema 4D as well. Lighting is challenging too, we hope that we can improve our lighting skills through this project.

We aim to create the scenes with some key words including, fantasy, dream, amusement Park, outer space, alien, pink.

Reference Images

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We are inspired by the artist Valeria Mata on Instagram. We will use her works as references to create a dreamland-like place, a paradise, which will relax the audience. Amusement park is always a place that people can release themselves from their high-pressure works. So our scenes will be creating around the elements of amusement parks and it will be looking enjoyable and relaxed.

Main Elements

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There will be one scene for Ferris wheel, and the other scene for carrousel. Large statues or statues floating in the air will be put into the scene. And we will design each elements.

Team Members & Responsibilities

• Yue Liu (MA Visual Effects):3D Modeling, texturing, lighting, Compositing

• Shuang Lyu (MA Visual Effects): 3D Modeling, texturing, lighting, Compositing

• Yuhang Han (MA 3D Animation): 3D Modeling, texturing, lighting, Animation(particles)

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After talking to our tutor, he suggested us to render in Arnold and use particles in Maya. Since we do not have enough time to learn a new software, and there is no license for Octane in school, we decided to do it in Maya.