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Following is my vfx demoreel shot breakdown. All work herein this reel is done by me.

Shot 1 – Character with colors

A 20 sec short for the colorful festival of Holi.  Everything was completed in a week.

• Modeled, rigged, lit & animated in Maya
• Textured with Photoshop
• Cloth simulation with Maya nucleus, Hair simulation with Maya hair dynamics
• Rendered using VRay for Maya
• Compositing with After Effects

Shot 2 – Girl walking

A project to study Maya Hair styling, rendering & setting up advance skin shading with Mentalray. As this project was mainly aimed at rendering, I had a simple rig setup for this model and used motion capture data to transfer animation on this rig.

• Modeling, Rigging, Lighting, Animation was done in Maya
• Textured with Photoshop
• Cloth simulation with Maya nucleus, Hair simulation with Maya hair dynamics
• Rendered using Mentalray for Maya
• Compositing with After Effects

Shot 3 – Tree with Orange leaves

This project mimics the translucency ( sub surface scatter ) effect in leaves & its reaction to change in light conditions.

• Tree animated using Maya Paint Effects
• Shader setup using Mentalray Arch shaders
• Grass using Maya Fur
• Rendered using Mentalray

Shot 4 – Egyptian Alley camera animation

This project shows 2.5d animation setup using After Effects. It was an image I created in 3ds Max & rendered using VRay. Later I separated it into various layers in  After effects for 3d space camera animation. To finalize the animation I created the following effects in After Effects:

• Particles in 3d space
• Fake Depth of Field
• Environment light
• Chromatic Aberration

Shot 5 – Camera animation in Terrains

This project shows the use of MEL scripts Maya Terragen Connection I developed to export Maya camera animation to Terragen. Prior to version 2, Terragen lacked animation capabilities. My scripts filled this gap. Actually the camera was not directly animated in Maya for this scene, rather I tracked a footage I shot with my camcorder and applied this tracked data to Maya camera and finally exported this animation to Terragen through my scripts.

• Terrain modeled, textured & lit in Terragen
• Camera animated using Maya
• Color correction in After Effects

Shot 6 – Pregnant alien with girl

Created this image using Maya & ZBrush for a competition named “Uplifting Universe”.

• Modeled using Maya & Zbrush
• Rigged & lit in Maya
• Textured with Photoshop & ZBrush
• Girl hair is hand painted in Photoshop
• Rendered using Mentalray for Maya

Shot 7 – Evacuation matte painting

A matte painting I created using Maya & Vue. Painted additional textures in Photoshop. Later converted the painting into a 2.5d  camera animation using After Effects.

• Modeled the bridge & background buildings using Maya
• Modeled terrain in Vue
• Lit & rendered in Vue

Shot 8 – Guy’s head

Hair simulation & styling using Maya.

• Guy’s head modeled using Maya
• Textured using Photoshop
• Rendered using Mentalray

Shot 9 – Lightening struck Gaga baby

It is a 10 sec interstitial where this toy is shouting at the clouds that they can rain on his house and they can rain on his tree but they can not rain on him.

• Modeled, rigged, lit & animated in Maya
• Textured using Photoshop
• Rendered using Mentalray
• Composited in After Effects