London Met Competition Brief

/ Andrew Walker

Banbury Walker Studio are working with London Metropolitan University to develop a sequence of competition projects that will hopefully provide real world experience and real world timelines for students.

This is our first competition brief. At the link below you will find background materials on a sample project that our studio has developed. The competition is a forty eight hour event and will be posted online here on Wednesday 7th March at 1pm. It will also be outlined in person to London Met students at the same time at the Commercial Road campus. All entries should be submitted via email to studio@banburywalker.com before 6pm on Friday 9th March. No late entries will be considered.

The prize for the best entry as judged by us will be a 12 week paid internship at Banbury Walker Studio in a Design Assistant role.

Please click here to download the background briefing document.

3DS MAX Volume light solution

/ Davide Chicco
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Sometimes creating real light effects can be a nightmare. Searching for a good volume light and at the same time keeping the render time reasonable seems almost impossible to achieve. In order to research realistic looking lighting which includes the unexpected textures that a camera lens adds to the image, we reviewed some recent high profile concerts and also a spectacular light show in Hamburg for Wladimir Klitschko’s entrance when he fought David Haye. A more subtle but equally powerful light show worth looking at is the 2012 Grammy performance of Adele singing Rolling in the deep. If you look closely at the light beam properties on show, you will see what look like gas flame effects in the volumetric and there are also some great details from the ground row lighting which appear to burn together as one light when they are at their most powerful.

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Charlotte Street CGI Integration

/ Mark Simpkin
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CGI Integration into a Locked Camera Shot

Shortly after aquiring the new studio camera, the team devised a small test to see how well we could integrate CG elements into a live shot. This work requires skills in camera matching, rotoscoping, compositing and colour matching so that the real footage and CGI seem to share the same space. Below is a brief description of how the above video was made.

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