Filmmaker Patrick Kalyn Relies on DaVinci Resolve Studio’s Fusion and Fairlight for Sci Fi Short Film
Blackmagic Design today announced that the sci fi horror short film “SpaceX Final Transmission” was posted end to end in DaVinci Resolve Studio editing, 分级, visual effects (VFX) and audio post production software.
弗里蒙特,(10月27日2022)
Kalyn created the two minute short film to dive deeper into the craft of acting, 反过来, 让我在幕后成为更好的导演,他说. “SpaceX Final Transmission” was inspired by the idea of colonizing other planets, 使人类成为多星球物种.
Captain Taylor (Kalyn) transmits one final message from a doomed camp on Mars, warning an incoming ship that peril awaits and hinting at a crew gone mad.
“It was the perfect project to put Resolve through its paces. I shot it in my living room with a few lights and a green screen since the film is told through a video message sent by Captain Taylor. The short is part of a larger story that I'm currently writing,” explained Kalyn.
With compositing done in DaVinci Resolve Studio’s Fusion page, Kalyn relied on several tools for the VFX environments, including the Delta Keyer to key out the green screen, 净板节点, 通道布尔值等.
“我没有打出干净的盘子, so I used the 净板节点 and cranked up the erode value to fill in the gaps,他说. “CG环境是分层渲染的, so I had to assemble the beauty pass in Fusion with Channel Booleans. The landscape you see outside the observation window is an actual picture of Mars’ surface from the new Perseverance rover. 一旦我把环境建好, 我比较了电脑屏幕上的随机代码元素, 以及周围漂浮的轻尘埃和碎片, 所以背景不会让人感觉完全死气沉沉.
“Depth Blur was used to have the focus fall off the further away the environment was from the camera, 使用嵌入的Z深度通道. 最后, I added a soft glow spilling over the character's shoulder to help marry the background to the plate, as well as a bit of lens distortion on the background to make it feel less CG. The heads up display was the last thing in the comp, built using rectangles and text nodes.”
Kalyn noted that he added dirt and grime to the CG walls by merging several images in multiply mode, using Corner Positioner to match the perspective of where they were placed. “I placed a bloody handprint on the wall where Taylor looks to motivate his eyeline and also show the audience some bad stuff has gone down, 这证实了他所说的吗,他说.
这种效果一直延续到音频后期, for which Kalyn relied on DaVinci Resolve Studio’s Fairlight page.
“在我完成对话之后, it was a matter of layering in sound effects (SFX) and music from my sound library. I had separate tracks for SFX that happened inside versus outside the observation deck. A heavy low pass filter on the outside tracks’ EQ made it sound like it’s coming through thick walls,他解释道.
Kalyn continued, “I mix as I edit sounds by setting the volume of each sound on a per clip basis. I used the volume sliders for more macro adjustments to the entire track. I love the DIM toggle near the volume slider; it comes in super handy when you’re auditioning sounds, 这样你的耳朵就不会被巨大的声效震到.”
“The big takeaway from doing this VFX short from end to end inside Resolve is that a filmmaker has everything they need to produce exceptional, 高质量内容, 都在一个软件里,他总结道。.
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