Brief

Re-Creating the Scene:

New and up-coming director ‘Steven Artois’ is in town filming his new film ‘Hitlist’, an action packed adventure which is set to be one of the all time greatest blockbusters ever. He has a full team of staff working hard apart from he doesn’t have a digital special effects artist, which is beginning to bring the final production of the film to a halt. The film is on a very tight budget so instead of going to Hollywood and hiring professional digital effects artists Mr Artois wants to try someone new to the business.

He has asked for you to re-create an action scene from a film that has special effects. The time scale of the scene should be from 15 seconds to 1 minute and no longer depending on the production quality. The choice of scene is up to you whether it be from a Hollywood blockbuster or a home made movie.

· Basic paperwork will be needed to show how you work towards completing final outcome, i.e. a basic method of how you achieved the final outcome. Storyboards and concept drawings which will show how you have seen past the camera view shown on the film and imagined what the whole scene would of looked like during filming it.

· The re-creation of the chosen scene should be created in one of the major 3D packages, i.e. Maya, Lightwave, or Max. Everything that will be seen from the camera view in the scene should be fully modelled and textured. Decent texturing is very important due to the video output quality of films. There is no polygon limit on the modelling of the scene.

· If possible keep character animation to a minimum as it’s the special effects that are important in this brief.

· Particle animation included in the 3D package should be used to create the special effects to a high standard, and also the animation of objects in the scene.

· The finished scene should be: Size 4:3 720 x 576 PAL 25 Frames per Second, and the file format must be MPG 2.

· The finished scene must be burn to disc but also including the original film chosen film scene which will allow for comparison.

Mr Artois will be looking to see how closely you have made your re-creation of the scene compared to the original. The more they look exactly the same the better.