Uncategorized – Michael Berryman VFX

Production Diary

This is the production diary that i kept throughout the creation of my final project “Butterfly Effect”.

Process

Here is a snapshot into the process that took place when creating the shots in this final project.

Revised Storyboards

These are the final storyboards after revising the originals.

Original Storyboards

These are the original storyboards for the final project.

Character design

This is a snapshot of the process of learning to draw wolves and the development of the characters.

This is the original synopsis for my final project. Synopsis – Butterfly Effect While out with his mother and the rest of his pack, a young Wolf Cub becomes fascinated with a brightly coloured butterfly. He begins to chase after the butterfly, enthusiastically. However, while encapsulated by the beauty of the butterfly, the Wolf CubContinue reading “Synopsis”

Mandalorian One effect that I really wanted to mention can be seen in the Disney + series The Mandalorian. This effect sees the directors forgetting blue/green screen for backgrounds and instead favouring a circular screen behind the actors. This screen (shown above) may sound insane as it would seem like it would only provide aContinue reading

Doughnut One thing that I have always been interested in is the creation of 3D objects. So, when I found out about Blender, I was immediately began looking up tutorials. The specific tutorial that I found, was by Blender Guru on Youtube. Here he showed how to create a computer generated doughnut with the software.Continue reading

Sh! The Octopus 1937. No visual effects technology. So how did they pull off this shot? This classic visual effects shot from Sh! The Octopus shows the character Nanny (Elspeth Dudgeon) transforming right in front of the audience’s eyes. However, the baffling thing is that there are no clear cuts, no masks used (due toContinue reading

Creating Middle Earth In researching visual effects, one thing that has caught my interest is the use of miniatures. In particular, the way Peter Jackson utilised them in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Even though miniatures have been used in franchises such as Star Wars and Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings used themContinue reading