Sideways MV(Ft. Lil Mixie)
Music Video
Intro
During the Spring 2022 Semester, for my final project for a Mixed Reality Compositing course, I had the amazing opportunity to collaborate with a small team of three to create a music video in five weeks for Lil Mixie's song Sideways.
I was responsible for the 3D side of the project using Unreal Engine 5 as well as some mixed reality compositing shots involving our artist green-screened and composited into the 3D worlds.
Project
I created three concept worlds in Unreal based on some storyboards provided by our creative director.
I wanted to make collaboration a priority so I made a ton of easily customizable blueprint materials and a few actors to be able to tweak things instantly in real time during our meetings.
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To have proper contrast and narrative cohesion, we went through a lot of discussions, and after we tweaked these sets a bit more to fit the creative director's vision, our team had the artist herself fly in and we collected some greenscreen shots.
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Then, our two talented post-production artists keyed out and sent me the image files to bring back into Unreal Engine.
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We worked closely together as we rendered out the final scenes and stayed in the studio overnight to get the final product out! There were a few issues with render quality, but we all definitely learned a LOT from this project.
Any glaring quality issues were taken care of with After Effects and Premiere Pro, while I just turned my laptop into a render farm churning out images to use for our music video
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Our project was quite ambitious from the start. Creating a music video in five weeks was no easy task, but we were able to get a finished product and a pat on the back to everyone on my team that worked together to bring this project to life!
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