Conclusion and reflection

After these shots have all been made, before they are passed on, always look over the work and mark down what you have not done correctly, what could be improved for the next time, so that any errors that are made now, can be corrected for later projects.

A few things that were noted:

1 - Names of nodes; Some nodes over the course of the assessments, such as the 'Altar Sequence' often had keylights without their names, so in order to know where they are should someone scramble the node tree, having names for everything is pivotal, especially if you have to hand your work over to another person.

2 - Alphas; The viewer window on nuke may not show everything on the picture until it is zoomed upon, in this assessment, what was found that when the alphas were placed together for the final breakdown tutorial videos, 'noise' could be found in some of the final blue screen merges (noise being a build up of static in the form of dots on your screen).

3 - Trackers; Trackers sometimes work and sometimes need modifying, it is better to analyse the footage before stepping forward and working. Manually rotoscoping and shifting the beziers after tracking is wise to do because trackers can be more of a guideline depending on what you are tracking, such as a rotoscope. The container in the fight sequence had to be tracked on some shots, and then modified in individual keyframes, doing this at an earlier time would save time and getting basic shots finished will allow the compositor to focus on other areas of importance.

3 - Keeping to the original brief ideas; The original ideas for these briefs would have possibly made work easier or more fulfilled as they work along, and certain aspects of the original brief ideas could have been implemented for a better finished product, such as the car colour correction. If the puddle had been rotoscoped and merged over, it may have made this car colour correct a more visually impressive piece, so in this finished product, the car would only need to be moved further up the gravel in the frame to give enough room at the bottom of the shot for the puddle.

In conclusion, keeping to naming conventions, cleaning up alpha work, tracking alongside rotoscoping at an earlier stage and keeping to the original plan (Or at least keep going back to review your work) are a few things noted that could have been used to increase the final product on these assessments, however it is better to find these mistakes now and learn from them, to improve as a compositor instead of repeating the same mistakes, so time and experience also have a part to play in finished products as well.