Here are some screenshots (Maya) of the first scene in my demo reel/short film “Emergency”. There is also a screenshot at the end of the Nuke script I used to composite this scene (the rest of the reel was all composited in After Effects).

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01. Sprite particle stars painted on the inside of a large sphere, Earth model, ship and motion paths for camera and ship animation.

02. Scene from above

03. Ship, directional lighting

04. Ship with volume emitters for engine flames (curves used as goals for particles)

05. Emitters from another angle

06. Sprite particle stars – randomized sequence of 15 star and cluster images

07. Motion paths towards Earth for camera and ship

08. Screen shot showing Nuke script I created to composite this scene.

I successfully finished my two year diploma in Interactive and Motion Graphics a week ago – returning to college was an interesting (and rewarding) experience, and I’m excited to get back to working in the “real world”, as it were.

In the meantime, I’ve got my first reel online which demos some of my visual effects work over the past few months (see below), and I’m currently working on a second reel which concentrates more on the motion graphics side of things. I hope to have that one up in the next few weeks.

Also in the works is a new, simple portfolio site at stephenblacker.com [EDIT: New web page is now online]