One of the project that I love doing with my students in the first digital lighting class is this Match to Live Action project. They learn a great deal about the fundamentals of light in the real world such as key to fill ratio, shadow quality, bounce light, and so much more. They embrace it!

In Fall of 23, our students had yet another opportunity to be mentored by teams from The Mill NY. “Team Mountain” included Zach Jantz, Yeona Choi, Dee Divikaran, and Mateo Solarzano. Whimsical project captured the attention of our mentors while they worked to also keep it “based in reality”. The team worked well together while managing their other coursework, jobs, and life in general.

Many thanks to all of our mentors on this project!

The Mill NY

• Emily Meger – CG Lead, SCAD MFA CMPA
• Dave Barosin – Effects Lead, Mentor
• Jake Martin – Realtime Supervisor, Mentor
• Stephen Eisenman – CG Lead, Lighting, SCAD BFA VSFX
• Vi Nguyen – Compositing, SCAD MA VSFX, SCAD BFA ANIM
• Varshini Kumar – Compositing, SCAD BFA VSFX
• Heather Keister – Compositing, SCAD BFA VSFX
• Mazyar Sharifian – Compositing, SCAD MA VSFX
• Stephen Withers – Recruiting, SCAD BFA/MFA VSFX

SCAD

• Bridget Gaynor – Professor of Visual Effects, Lighting and Compositing
• Deborah Fowler – Professor of Visual Effects, Particle Effects and Procedural Methods

The Winter quarter flew by like never before. Students who participated in the Harbor Picture Company Mentored collaboration created an outstanding body of work. The video below was created by Emma Shaberg, Thalia Valencia-Murphy, Dee Divakaran, and Galina Bovykina.

More can be found in here. https://bridgetgaynor.com/w23-scad-x-harbor-pictures/

The following work was created by Zhifan Wang, Julia Epprecht, and Owen Sun. For more examples from this class, please go to the Special Projects menu and select Spring 2022.

Zach Smith * Hailey Akashian * Christo Liu

Aberdeen Shang * Clarissa Walls * Luke Midgley * Jared Kengla

Katie Veneman * Dale Bunten * Casey Seabolt

Bryant Nelms * Yi Heng Huang * Tony Cheng

This is a selection of projects created in SDGM 560 in Fall of 2018.   Effects were created by students in Professor Deborah Fowler’s class using Houdini.  Lighting, Look Development, and Compositing were created by students in Professor Bridget Gaynor’s class using Maya, Arnold, Houdini, Unreal Engine, and Nuke.

Special Thanks to our Mentors from The Mill NY:

• Dongyoon Billy Jang – SCAD Alumni and Lighting Supervisor
• Kyle Cody – SCAD Alumni, Head of 2D, Visual Effects Supervisor
• Todd Akita – Effects Supervisor
• Cat Gulascy – Talent Manager

Final projects can be viewed here:

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Anushka Deedwania * Timmy Chiu * Dheeraj Varadani * Abhishek Singh

Emily Wimer * Shenny Huang * Lauren Saffey

Jessica Love * Kevin Johnson * Dhruv Shankar * Elise Hannon * Erika Brown

Joey Swarner * Katie Caputo * Rachel Clark * Michael Listo

In the Fall of 2017 SDGM 560 ventured into a special project with mentors from Dreamworks Animation.  The goal, to create visually compelling imagery that tells a story without a character.

Special Thanks to our Mentors:

• Dave Walvoord – Visual Effects Supervisor, DWA
• Megan Walker – Surfacing Artist, DWA
• Grazia Como – Recruiter

Final Results can be seen here:

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Work created by Yuna Chen

Work created by Zandria Ross

Select Projects from the course “Technical Direction for Compositing”.  Focus of these projects is on Live-Action Integration of Computer Generated objects.  Students are responsible for the photography, pipeline setup, lighting, shading, texturing, render layers, and compositing. Models and Animation are provided by the Stanford Model Library, Mixamo.com, and other sources.

Select projects from this course can be seen here:

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Exploration with ESRI – City Engine

Exploration with ESRI – City Engine

Exploration with ESRI – City Engine

Exploration with ESRI – City Engine

Explorations with ESRI City Engine

Collaboration with students in VSFX, ITGM, and ARCH, this special project was focused on uses with ESRI City Engine. Emphasis was put on various methods on how the data exported from ESRI could be used in Immersive Reality applications. Students explored pre-rendered applications as well as Virtual and Augmented Reality.

Some of this exploration can be viewed here:

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artist   .   educator   .   supervisor

lighting   .   look development   .   integration

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