Pre-Visualization for Film
with Jason Michael Hall
Description
Many of today's films are extensively pre-visualized using 3D tools, in order to block out scenes and plan for both on-set shoots and visual effects. In this title, Jason Michael Hall will show you the power of pre-viz and how much a single artist can achieve in a relatively short amount of time. The demonstration will also prepare you for what it will be like to work as a pre-viz artist in the film industry. Starting from an empty scene in Maya, Jason will show the process of building assets and setting up your scene, including free and affordable resources for retaining assets and streamlining your workflow. Followed by a discussion on cameras and cinematography basics, he'll take you through the blocking stage to a fully realized action sequence while discussing efficiency, organization, cinematography techniques, and tips and tricks to speed up and streamline your workflow.
Duration: 212 Minutes
Format: HD 1920x1080
Jason Michael Hall
Previz Artist at Unit Eleven
Jason Michael Hall has been an artist in the Film Industry for ten years. Arriving in LA with a skillset in comics, illustration and web design, Jason's goal was to change his career path and get involved in Visual Effects. He restarted has career primarily as a Pre-Visualization artist on the first JJ Abrams’ Star Trek a few weeks before graduating from the Certificate Program at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects. Since then he has been creating amazing action sequences for many of the top big-budget Visual Effects films of the last decade; including Star Trek, Justice League, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers, Mission Impossible, X-Men and Deadpool. While primarily working in Pre-Viz, he’s also contributed in areas such as concept design, storyboarding, animatics, and other pre-production needs that include Motion Tests, Postviz, Pitchviz, and VR media. He’s currently living in the Echo Park neighborhood in Los Angeles with his wife Nicky when not traveling with a production. There he keeps himself busy with various other creative pursuits like pitches for original IP’s, writing music, DJ'ing, and trying to get better at the didgeridoo.
