Comp Lair Live #09 | Guest: Victor Perez, Director / VFX Sup | Tech Corner: Normals - The Basics

[Music] hey everyone good afternoon and welcome to another episode of complair episodes is it nine yeah it's nine nine weeks nine weeks of this little project um uh once again thank you for all the for all the messages um pretty much as i said last week same thing pretty much uh every every day really um there's messages like uh congratulating the show and you know asking some questions as well um so thanks uh once again for all the support um if you know i'm doing this for you again as i said so um it's it's good to know that it's being well received um let's start with the overall intro we have a great show for you today by the way and um we what happened this week ah so probably some of you know or read my interview uh within ben ben's mckeywon newsletter uh so it was fun thank you ben once again for reaching out um ben was just to remind everyone ben was a guest on the show i believe it was a couple of weeks ago um or is it no it was a couple of weeks ago um and um more than that actually i think it was three weeks ago and then um yeah he he he basically asked me to to be his guest on his uh type of show which is the newsletter that all of you should subscribe if you haven't already uh there's always always great information there um despite of the fact that you might know some of our some of the concepts already that doesn't matter uh really it's it's all about like uh sharing information with everyone and this is also what i'm trying to do here to um you know the best way i can basically uh so check that interview um if you want it's uh it's available online i believe i put it also on the discord channel so you can go there and and and check it out uh pandemic updates um not very good things uh this week as as you probably noticed around the world with more focus on maybe uk and in the us this is on the human side of things so the cases are rising again which was or somewhat like expected um given the fact that the lockdown has been lifted but at the same time people are not behaving as they should so um you know not the best of the situations really um as i said a couple of weeks weeks ago and last week as well i've been uh i've been spending this couple of uh weeks in lisbon i'm still in lisbon by the way i'm in the friend's house thanks so me for your house um hope you see this uh one one day um one of these days and um so uh the case is here even though people are behaving um quite rationally and quite i would say responsibly the cases are rising here again and it's actually uh even though um you know at least in within europe uh portugal was actually an example on how you know the virus has been contained um it's actually now the second worst country in terms of cases rising again so you know um not the best of the situations in any in any country uh but things in the uk and the u.s especially are dramatic um so we'll see what happens in terms of what's happening in our industry things are not looking the best either every week there's something new and we've all read the what's happening with the technicolor situation um we'll see this is not really well it's news but we we we've been reading about this situation for for maybe or almost a year or something um but um yeah the situation is not looking too good apparently npc is also which is something that you know counterbalances what i just said but it seems like they're opening a new branch in um in germany i'm not sure if it's berlin actually so you know um there's certain movements but i don't think um things are looking really good unfortunately um and let's not forget that the risk of a second wave is uh of infection is real and um i don't want to of course alarm anyone but it seems like the governments of several countries are not taking this seriously um and it seems like even though and this is also supported by the who which they've been saying or they said in the past that the second wave is unlikely but that doesn't seem what the data is suggesting at the moment so i think there's a real uh why am i to say of course i'm not a scientist but what am i to say um what's what will happen i think nobody knows actually uh that's why everybody's throwing you know random things um hoping that they will get some of these things right but uh i don't think things look too good to be honest and i think uh from what the data is suggesting at least a second wave is is i think it's it's really likely to happen um what else uh in the uk pubs are going to be open from either the 6th of the 7th of july so it's in within a couple of weeks or something and as far as i read there's no masks being mandatory in terms of people who wear the masks all the time even if they go to the pub the social distancing is also reducing from i think it's 1 meter plus i think that's how they describe it uh which i think also in itself it's a bit uh irresponsible or not responsible that's not right i mean sorry it's a bit dubious about what that means uh one plus meter i think it's a bit dubious and a lot of people from the beginning at least on the british side of things uh have been criticizing the the fact that the messages are not super clear and that of course can be can be can be a problem uh hopefully everything is going to be fine but um yeah we are seeing and we are witnessing what's happening in the world so we can take um you know some predicaments out of that i i believe but we'll see what happens um and this is i guess where we at in terms of the pandemic uh by the way in terms of the pandemic situation and the cases rising and all that stuff uh some countries around the world especially in europe are you know putting some some measures of lockdown not not locked down as it was at least not for now but they're doing that so and the portuguese government is not an exception the prime minister already said if people don't behave everybody will go home again and i think honestly given what i'm seeing even though people are in some parts of the seat are behaving responsibly there are other situations in which no one is wearing a mask for example in parks and stuff like that which is a bit weird but hopefully everything is going to be fine but i think there's some some concern here i believe technical highlight of the week today i've selected something that it's not new at all i think this is from this is maybe around four or five years so it's not new at all but i found it refreshing in terms of how to uh this is basically it's it's a youtube channel i said a few weeks ago that um i don't follow many youtube channels um but with a few exceptions this is one of the exceptions this site called computer file signal a channel called computer file and it's basically a way that they have to explain how filters work namely different blur filters uh so i think it's a refreshing uh probably to some of you uh you know a more graphical and tangent agent way of of seeing things so hopefully that will um that will you'll find that beneficial and i'll i'll be putting the link in the description as always and on the discord channel as well and um and i believe that's it for the technical highlights for today let's see what's happening on the chat hello everyone again uh we have a few people new people here uh welcome everyone ah giacomo is here nice to see you jacqueline and our moderator of course sabine always here thank you sabine uh you guys should behave because she she can kick you up now uh no i'm just kidding she can by the way but she won't because um there's no there hasn't been any problems so far um what uh where are you saying something still better to be a bit more cautious than sorry afterwards yes better safe than sorry right i i guess you're right um we'll see what happens but i don't think the situation looks amazing i hope i'm wrong as i said i hope i'm wrong i really do but um i don't think this situation um is is like there's like light at the end of the tunnel in terms of how things will turn out for the best in in the very short period of time i don't think that's the case uh but again i hope um i don't think i'm wrong but i hope i'm wrong uh we'll see what happens all right so we have a great show for you today let's go to the technical highlights um sorry the tech corner by the way i and again i know that i'm going to repeat myself if you have specific things that you would like me to focus on that corner please write me an email or a direct message or something like that there's been some people that have been doing that already so keep coming keep them coming uh i haven't been able i haven't so far been able to uh address those uh situations but i will i promise i will uh but yes that's that's exactly my my intention is to have this dialogue between uh me and and whoever is watching um and this is the premise of the show anyway so let's take a look at the tech corner for today and then we're gonna take we're gonna talk a little bit afterwards and then introduce our guest all right okay take a corner now see you in two seconds so normals it's one of those concepts that a lot of people use them um even people with a lot of experience they use them and they use them proficiently with no problems and they know how and when to apply them but from my experience people don't really understand what normals are and what they can do for them in terms of coming up with different solutions for certain situations or certain types of problems and because they don't understand it they don't know how to tackle certain problems and maybe if they would understand normals a bit better they'll be able to tackle and to untangle themselves a bit better from certain problems so let's talk about what normals really are so in this situation as an example i have a sphere that is textured with a certain texture it doesn't really matter and um if we go on the 3d scene i put some um you know vertical lines coming from the center of our sphere and this will be the actual thing to illustrate what normals are so a normal is a factor and i'm not getting into what a vector is at the moment because it goes outside the scope of what i'm trying to explain you here but it's a vector that it's perpendicular to the surface within the point you selected on that surface so for example this guy here is perpendicular to the actual surface of the point you've selected the word perpendicular or normal it's the same that means that it makes 90 degrees with that surface so this angle here it's 90 degrees and because this is a surface there will be a really big number of these normals around the sphere because every single point you select in this case because it's a graphical representation every single pixel will have its own normal okay so this is the representation of what a normal is in the 3d space if you understood what i just said that's another way to say that the direction of that phase will also be defined by the actual normal of that surface so this will help us in a lot of different situations if you understand this concept now we're going to take a look at what's the graphical representation of a normal so if i now shuffle the normal from the 3d scene we're going to have this representation and this is a mix of rgb colors and again although people use this to normally do real lights because of course we know that if we go around the channels we will hit different parts of the sphere and we can use them as masks to relight our subject it's very useful to understand what these colors are okay so first of all let's establish one thing that is super important which is the normals in a graphical representation they go always between minus one and one that's how they they behave numbers wise if you look at the the numbers here if you select any point here you'll see that there's no point going above one no matter where you place the sphere or how big the sphere is or whatever and what's important to retain here is the reason why we have different colors it's because it's coordinates of each vector that comes out from that surface given a certain point that you selected okay let's say that i've selected this point here normals wise this will be a vertical thing like this this will be our n vector that's the notation and there will be a certain contribution every single axis in which this vector is coming out of so how can this vector be defined in space in order for us to define that we have to have a cartesian reference and the cartesian reference is going to be something like this okay x y and z and this cartesian reference it's placed in the center of our world normals if not described otherwise it's always referred to the world position and by word position what i mean by this is if you go to your 3d world you can see that this sphere because it was created like that is right at the center of our world and that's why when we look at this this cartesian is at the center of our world which coincides in this case only with the center of our sewer as well but the street can go around the world anyway but the cartesian reference will always be placed at the center of our world there will be other types of normals for example normals refer to the camera space and there will be something different but let's not mix that concept yet but it's basically a different reference to which we are referring our normals to in this case it's world and unless it's specified differently it's always against the world that we need to define that same normal so in this case here if we have something like this we need to define that same vector in terms of what's the contribution of every single axis in our cartesian reference although i just said that we're not going to get into what a factory is there's a couple of things that it's important to establish for your better comprehension on the following example which is a vector is composed by two components one of them is the magnitude which is the same thing as saying length and the other one is direction it's actually the direction that we care about in this example and knowing that it's possible to place the same vector anywhere we want in space as long as it respects these two components the vector is still valid for the calculations that you want to do with it for example in this case i could have placed this vector anywhere in space as long it respects the actual same length and the same direction in this case it's not even respecting the same length of course it's just hand drawn but we can see that this one is shorter than this one so of course these two couldn't be equivalent but let's assume that they have exactly the same direction and for the following example direction is actually all we care about even though i'm choosing this one to illustrate the following examples bear in mind that a vector can be placed anywhere in space so when i'm taking coordinates from this vector the same coordinates could have been taken from anywhere in space but the relationship within them within these three axis they will always have the same level of contribution between them to define the direction of this vector and again direction is all we care about in this example so we have our cartesian reference that means that this vector can be defined with a certain contribution of probably every single axis why because here we can say that we have a contribution on y of a certain value and we have also a contribution on the x with a certain value as well and maybe even though we cannot see this flat representation of a 3d point maybe we will have something or some contribution from the z-axis that is coming towards us there's probably a certain angle in which this certain vector has towards us of course again with this 2d representation we cannot see it but maybe there's some so that's when when you look at the values if we look at this value here you'll see that we have a contribution of around 0.23 value-wise on the red channel so that will be this value here we will have a contribution of 0.24 on the y-axis okay which more or less is more or less the same and we have a contribution of 0.39 on the z-axis so there's definitely an angle towards us okay so this will be the vertical portion or the vertical contribution on this axis ends the green color it's always red green and blue it's always x y and z so there will be that contribution on the y there will be a certain contribution on the x and there will be also a certain contribution in this case on the z and that's why we have a mix of all these colors if we have only contribution of one color there will be something only with one column and we're going to establish something here which is if the angle that this normal has with a certain axis if that angle is 90 degrees that contribution will be zero if it's zero degrees that contribution will be the maximum which will be one and if it's 20 and 80 degrees it's gonna be the opposite of one which is minus one let me give you an example if we have a vector that is right at the axis like this this vector will make 90 degrees with the x-axis and we'll make 90 degrees with the z-axis right so its contribution will be the maximum because there's no angle between the actual vector and where it's seated in terms of where the y-axis is so it will have a maximum contribution on y and the maximum we know that it's one so we know that on the y which is a green channel it will be one and it will have zero contribution on the x because it makes 90 degrees and it will have a zero contribution on the z axis because it's also 90 degrees if on the other hand the vector was here okay so if it was here will be the same thing except contribution on the y will be minus one and the other ones will be still zero let's not forget that normals always vary between -1 and 1. that's the range of values that they will have so this means that now we understand what normals are and maybe now that we know exactly what they are maybe there's a certain number of things that we can do with them and that's what we're gonna take a look at if the world is our pivot point and by pivot point i mean it's our world axis and that's what i call pivot point what if we need or we would like to change the pivot point to be something else if we do that that means that we could access parts of the sphere that otherwise we won't be able to access for example the occluded part that we don't see how can we change the pivot point let's take a look at something so any object in the 3d space inside nuke will have of course a translational rotation in scale same thing with the uniform scales q and pivot and other stuff but all these changes will be translated into something that is called the world matrix so the translation rotation and the scale will be also defined by a certain number in this four by four matrix so if you go up you'll see that this value here is changing if you go up in this one you'll see that this one will change and if we go up and down with the z you'll see that what's defining the translation in this matrix it's actually the last column if we change things in the rotation you'll see that a bunch of values will change because there are signs and cosines being taken in consideration in all these variables in here in this part of this 3x3 matrix so you'll see that this will change like that so that means that this three by three matrix will be the part of the matrix that will be defining the rotation on any object in space and the last column will be the part of these four by four matrix that will be defining the translation at the same time that we know this there's a note called color matrix that i'm not going to get into what's the operations that it does but if you take a look there's some resemblance between these two you can see that this part of the this matrix okay the world matrix it's also a 3x3 in here so that means that if we would like to change something color-wise first of all we have to have the reference in which there's no transformations at all this is called the identity matrix okay there will be no transformations if you have a value of one in its diagonal so now if you plug this here there will not be any changes okay if you don't have any any value you'll see that everything will be pretty much zero okay so you need to have a diagonal in order for us to be your starting point okay in the same way that if you open an axis or a card or anything that is a 3d object within the world matrix you also have one one one one so this is like the starting point too for you to do any transformations so because we have this thinking common we can link each element of this three by three portion of the matrix to this matrix in here if we do that we'll be able to change the rotation of our pivot point taking the translation rotation and scale in any way we like so this will be the representation of a 3d object in the 3d world and we can mimic that by changing the colors with the color matrix coming from a certain source in this case our normals so if we do that let's put this to 0 0 0 that will be the same diagonal in here so we're going to put the same values like this we have to copy one by one that means that now if you change something on the on the rotation on x for example you'll see that both values will change so these values are going to be the same as these ones which means that in terms of the graphical representation you see that this is the center of our world and now if you change the axis if you rotate it in the in the x-axis you'll see that this center is changing now so you're now accessing what's happening below that region of our sphere you can rotate it in any axis and you'll be able to access the portion of the image that otherwise or the normals that otherwise you won't be able to access you're effectively changing where your world space is so you're changing the pivot point to be something else okay so you're changing this in any direction you want so now the center used to be here now is it already here so that means that if you flip between the channels you'll see that now you have a different type of selection where for example the blue used to be you know taking the whole region now it's not taking the whole region because now the center of our world is actually in here which means that this will be the maximum value in which we're going to have our vector coming from this direction this is for the rotation what about the translation we know that the translation lives in here so we can force something like this but because we don't have a four by four color matrix what we can have is a adds node that we're gonna open on all these channels so now if you link this to the red and this to the green and this to the blue there will be a translation so now this will also change in that regards so this will open a few more possibilities for you to do a more effective simple re-lining like this let's now take a look on our axis is influencing the pivot point of our selection in here okay this is the center of our world so this will take the values as we know it as as we saw before the more you go towards us the blue channel is changing slightly because you're effectively changing the axis towards us and it's because it's towards us we know that it's the z-axis so everything else is going to be more towards the blue color if you go on the right you see that now the center used to be there okay so now we are looking past what used to be the center so now the center is off center actually same goes to the upward same thing it's as if your camera was moving but it's not so now if you rotate the same thing will happen you're rotating the world in which your reference was and this is actually what's happening just wanted to call your attention for something which is if you understand it better you can always change the polarity of both the color matrix and the add node by clicking the invert and then on the endnote you're going to actually multiply this by -1 like that it's gonna be the same you see that is now moving in the way that you may find that probably would make a bit more sense to you but again it's exactly the same concept just a different direction so might change your way of seeing things and that's why i want to give you this tip so hopefully this will now give you a few more ideas and overall understanding of what normals are and what type of manipulation we can do with them to our benefit especially in terms of but not only real lighting let's not forget that even if you change the camera this won't change the values of normals whatsoever because it's normals of the world we still have the same pivot point which is the world in which the sphere is seated so it's important to distinguish both things in order for you to fully understand this and hopefully you understood them now hello again everyone hope you liked it um just one thing now that i was saying this again um just to make sure that um it was clear when i'm drawing the coordinates it's not the actual coordinates of the point but rather the contribution you can face it as a contribution in percentage since we're going between minus one and one of each angle that each each axis will will make to define a certain inclination of that vector uh probably i will edit this later on uh so it becomes a bit more clear because it's not the coordinates of the actual point but rather the contribution of the inclination of each axis hope that's uh that's that's clear now um let's see super cool stuff cool nice uh hello milos i didn't know you were here cool nice to see you uh virtually uh of course um time now to call our guests i think just a tip every one of you i believe knows him okay so who would that be might might not know him personally but you've come across with this name i'm pretty sure of it i'm pretty sure of it so let's uh let's call our guest now and see you in two seconds victor paris look at you man how are you doing oh good how are you man oh good uh i'm seeing in your super enterprise but we're going to talk about that we're going to talk about that uh in a minute not just now because i'm sure a lot of people will have a lot of different uh questions for you and i also have mine i have to say i have a huge list of questions so we'll see if we have time for for all of them once again thank you for doing this this actually uh i don't know if people are aware of this but this is actually uh your second life today in a row right because you you just came from one and you're about to embark into another right yeah yeah but i love it i love it oh man thank you friend so thank you so much of course thanks so for having me it's always nice thank you thank you um actually um we don't know each other we never met each other uh before we have some common friends but we never met each other which is uh which is cool uh so this is the first time but we are already friends we are already friends exactly [Laughter] actually there's one person on the chat saying oh look who he is it's actually our common friend which is uh carlos conceicao hey man i love he's my brother yeah he said he said the same thing when i when i was uh talking with him about you said yeah visa is my brother from a different mother of course but uh and he's saying hi brother uh so actually uh carlos as i as i just mentioned uh is actually our common friend and uh and i'm well listen we've uh we've worked in the same companies at least a couple of them uh one of them being dnag and another one cinecide so i'm sure we have more friends in common that we actually know um and after all it's a small industry right yeah i mean if you have been working in london for at least a year we have something like a hundred friends together yeah you can have you can add zero after that one and uh that will make that will make the number of years that i've been in london before so yeah it's been around 10 years actually as i said thank you once again victor for uh for this um for taking this uh this one also after the kin tools it was skin tools right uh yeah how was it by the way good oh amazing i love those guys really really fun of the of the work they are doing they are saving so much time and hustle you're right man you're right you're right you're right right even though i have to be honest um sometimes i still go on the old technique of uh trekking and uh you know the head myself with the generic mesh uh i still do it i still do it i have to be honest i still do it but without a doubt that they save a lot of time no doubt no doubt at all no doubt at all so as i said in the beginning i think everyone pretty much especially in compositing came across your name at some point in their careers right whether they're just newcomers or people that have been here for a few years but for for those people that they don't have a clue which i find it really um difficult to be honest but for those people we have to address them we have to address them right can you present yourself a bit better to everyone well um i have been a compositor kind of uh quite a few years uh most recently i became a visual effects supervisor so i have been supervising commercials and feature films and now i'm evolving again into film directing because i'm now developing my first feature film as a film director after you know directing a couple of short films my last short film was most basically on a new technology that is echo if you haven't seen it www.echoshortfilm.com and in there you can see uh we developed a few technicalities to tell in a very complicated thing uh for a very simple story so yeah that is my life it's over complicating things just to look like cool just for the sake of it right yeah that's that's it oh man yeah so you worked in the in several uh companies in london but you're not in london at the moment are you no no no i'm i'm living in the countryside in italy uh quite near near rome and that is something that i always love i was rising the in the countryside so what i did is my wife is from italy so we move here and i build my my studio here so i can work like in any other major studio so it was designed for for visual effects supervision so i can review i have a cinema screen that is connected to to the computers or a frame server so i can actually have all the you know the comfortable of the big studio at home at home that sounds great man that sounds great to me and then and i'm sure that sounds great for everybody that's that's watching yeah especially if you want i can show you just a bit yeah it's not not much yeah of course yeah yeah is this this thing maybe let me let me show you i can turn a bit there is much but well it's the the most important part is right behind the camera i would love to turn it but this is locked to the to the to the monitor so i cannot move this well but but people but people can can actually um see some pictures because uh i think it was maybe a couple of weeks ago or something like that that you posted no it was actually more it was in the beginning of this pandemic right uh and you posted like um some pictures of of your studio of that enterprise that you have there and the link then went down almost because everybody was like uh you know drooling on that setup right yeah because it was quite convenient the timing it was two days before the lockdown the studio was finished and i have been working on the studio for almost a year and a half so it took me something like six months to design every single piece that is in the in the studio from the i mean the cables wiring hardware how to work everything together then it's it's a it's a hybrid studio so it's based on windows and mac and projections and so it took me six months and also the studio itself is like designed to to work in both sides of the post production for audio and for video of course and then it's dolby atmos i have the ability to evaluate dolby vision and working with plenty of lights and buttons that i love that so yeah it was quite convenient the timing and then i have been uh you know during the dock down having the time to familiarize with this because it's kind of a new environment and i'm so so happy i already have the qc you know for the quality control of a few a few things and is to be honest is better than being at the cinema well it's your own cinema right it's your own cinema there you go of course it has to be better i feel a bit of shame because everybody was complaining no you cannot go to the cinema you are during the lockdown you cannot get out he's like i don't want to get out i have everything i need but you were saying i can i actually can come to the city listen don't say that too many times because otherwise you're going to have a lot of people knocking on you though actually everybody's welcome whatever you want oh oh you open that door now uh so it's on youtube so this is where you are now and we're gonna we're gonna explore that i would like to explore that a little bit better but let's take a uh maybe a step um uh back in terms of uh where your career was in the beginning uh because some people especially newcomers they they may they may think well what happened to this guy how did he come up with all this thing in uh you know in in all of the sudden um you just mentioned the lockdown maybe some people are saying wow he invested all this money in this lockdown and he put the all these all this together in the lockdown uh without uh having like uh um you know a path until you were able actually to reach where you are today so you were working in visual effects for quite some time in london right i think it was only another in italy if i'm not the second correct yeah well i i wasn't i have been living in london for eight years or so i i moved there in 2009 i was already working sorry same time as me more or less yeah yeah yeah um and you know what i hear about you many many times because we have friends in common um and the thing is you always you always keep an eye on everybody in the industry you you more or less you hear about that on this guy so the people that is active that is sharing things so you always hear about that and you have it on on your radar but it happens a lot that i meet people like yeah we work together even in the same program and he's like oh i'm sorry i we never met but of course when i was working when i started i started in in london at union vfx that now is kind of a big theme but i was the first first artist ever in that company and my first task in the company was like that is your desk let help me help me mount it so it was an ikea desk and i was seriously mounting the the desk with team the one of the owners and i was working on 107 uh 127 hours yeah that was the the thing about the the guy here up there and it was kind of an evolution of hey do you know another composer yeah i have another friend so let's bring and you know in a very short time something like four or five months we were nine people all friends and we we crafted something like 500 shots for the for the film um it is really cool because it was a very friendly environment it was everybody was very humble i mean everybody was just bringing on the table whatever you have and i'm so proud of them because after that i just left because they they called me from from canada actually was a bit of time in canada working for imax corporation um i was working there for uh for harry potter um and then i moved back to london to work on the same thing another company so i was working in suicide for the same the same movie um but i i left and i left that of course i always been in touch with them but i'm very proud of them because now they are a big deal and the last time i was there kind of last year or something like that they are huge they are huge so nice so it's the same thing everybody has to start at a certain point so for me it's kind of metaphorical that i was mounting my own desk and now those guys have like a full building full of people and many many many people that is very talented now and he's like now is the dream that is the dream company that i wanted and then of course i always wanted to move to to other to other places but yeah i started there but before that i was quite miserable just doing little things that i mean it's not like the super fashion and glamour films like you know that knight and the pirates of the caribbean harry potter i was working in things that i mean it's not like a shame because of course there's nothing to be ashamed i don't think and and i think that's a good message for people that possibly are watching us uh and they all want to work in these big productions uh and they end up like in the beginning uh doing like small things as you are describing and the message here is everybody starts in the same way everybody starts from a junior position and everybody starts on small things uh saving some saving some exceptions of course but that's the norm so don't be disencouraged by by the fact that you are not working yet on big productions because as victor is saying everybody starting from the same place basically and to be honest with you pixels are always pixels so it is the same if you are working for pirates of the caribbean with johnny depp in your monitor or you are going with a b-movie exactly the notes are always the same the techniques are the same so you have to bring your your best in in there and it's always you are always learning and when they say ah but you have been working on big productions you know what the first day i'm starting a project i'm always afraid oh my god am i going to be good enough everybody is much better than me because i really admire the people that i'm working with and i really respect every artist like yourself or many other people even they are juniors everybody can teach you something so this thing of oh i know everything else if you believe that that is a very grown thing exactly i've approached exactly the same um same thing that you're saying uh well i've been saying this from the beginning actually of this project you can learn with everybody no matter how experienced this person is you can learn with everybody and the point that you're referring that you're always afraid or you can be always afraid of starting a new project that's actually true uh not all the time but it happens and it's okay that it happens it it actually you know keeps you on your toes and makes you you know delving into into learning new things into coming up with different solutions and studying because the study part of this profession never stops so this is another message for for people that are uh starting or or thinking on starting this profession and this is actually something that i also mentioned on ben's mcewen interview you never stop learning you never stop learning so if you think that it comes to a point as victor just mentioned exactly i believe i phrase it very similarly actually if you think it comes to a point in which you know everything there's something fundamentally wrong with you uh because this profession is all about learning if not for anything else technology is always advancing so and and and the software companies they take that that you know development those developments in into their software as well so have to be always up to to speed up what what's happening of course um so so that was your start in london and you're starting vfx production and uh and then you went to dnag as well and i believe the neck was your last company before you decided uh to embark on your solo adventure let's call it like that uh only that opportunity came about and what were your struggles because a lot of people probably thought about the same i want i want to be a director or i want to be you know the master of my destiny but some of people some people probably will will be afraid they don't know where to start they don't know if they have to have like a lot of money they don't know where to ask for support of several uh kinds of support can be financial can be others um contacts or whatever right can you can you expand a little bit on that of that journey um started for you absolutely i mean for me the most difficult part was finding the time because that is the most important i mean it's the only thing you cannot buy because you can buy whatever you want at the time every day you have 24 hours and that is what you have and you have to get make the most of that and you know i just realized that i had to change the day my son was born i was working on batman on that night um and my son was born and i say oh my this is a huge responsibility and i was seeing myself is this what i want to be because when you see that you have a son you start feeling like wow responsibility and your you feel like you are getting older very very fast yeah of course yes but i've been there so i know what you mean oh yeah you know so the thing is like i i want to do this and there is no other better time that now so you either i try for a few months just to be working during the day and then writing over i mean in the afternoons evenings and and it's like no with this this methodology is just taking me not to write or to allocate enough time to write the right way or i'm just getting tired at work so if i'm a compositor i have to be a hundred percent compositor because i is the only way to be to be good allocate 100 of yourself the same thing applies for being a writer and a director you you're writing 100 writer you are directing 100 directing so that took me to a position that i said i have to quit because i have to try and at least i'm going to give me a certain time frame so i was using my savings and of course my family was always supporting me and that was the reason i just decided to quit being a compositor um and then from from the neck i say okay that's it for now i'm not going to be a compositor i'm going back to italy i have my house in there which is this and in the countryside which is beautiful and i can enjoy more and the reason of their life is slower so i can i can have other things and it took me something like i'm not kidding less than a week that they learned that i wasn't here and i was offered to supervise one of the most important uh science fiction films in italy for for visual effects and it was like oh yeah and i couldn't say no because it's a part that i was in there i have this this this defect which is i love new things i wanted to be a director i wanted to be a writer i wanted to be a visual effects supervisor but you can only be one at the time so i said okay i'm just going to take the time and i'm going to do this this thing and i want to do it as best as possible and i want to revolutionize the way they are doing the things here in italy which is also one of the most important cinematographies that is in in in in in europe i will say in the world as well so it's like i can i can make the difference in here so okay i'm just going to leave my writing and directing because i'm interested in that and i put myself a hundred percent and you know i won the academy award for for the italian academy award for the visual effects of that film the invisible boy and and i was like again after i finished that it's like wow this is really really lovely and i love and then they start offering me other things the most difficult part in your career is say no that is the most difficult but it's the only way and in life in life in general not only your career but in life in general right yeah because you have to you cannot have everything because of course in the beginning you can handle things that are small but as soon as you grow up and i mean as a professional things are going to get that massive that you you have to choose and the only way to choose is just to decline something in favor of other things and i just realized that and i said okay i have to leave this thing even if they offer me other projects that were amazing but no i want to believe in my theme that's why i built this studio to work on my film in a certain way and now i'm just all a hundred percent writing and directing i'm so happy because i'm just working on my on my own project so what i believe is i have been helping directors for for many years to bring their vision so now i have learned so many things from many directors that now i can include that in my own tool set for for telling my own story so i'm just bringing all my experience in in this but right now right now i'm starting my career again because now i'm an i'm a newcomer it's like being a junior compositor right now i'm yeah a junior director exactly yeah yeah that's it but yeah but that's the exciting part isn't it it's like uh you know every every time either life throws something new at you or you are proposing you know by yourself to try something new i think that's exciting you know can be you know yeah you'll find your struggles you'll find your difficulties you'll find a moment sometimes of desperation sometimes even but i think there's always if you stick to it that there will always be something very good hopefully that will come out of it uh and the world is filled with examples you just mentioned your example but people tend to think that this only happens to the ones that were hit by the star of luck or something like that and and it's all about work and it's all about as you just pointed out let me tell you a story many people know this story because it's public but you know how i got to london i always wanted to go to london before going to london i always thought one day i'm going to london i'm going to do big things and i'm going to work in a batman movie i want to work with christopher nolan all that but i never took the courage because it's really difficult to leave your comfort zone and go there well you know what happens on uh april uh 2010 a earthquake destroyed my house i was about i was about to mention that right now is what destroyed completely destroyed so i got in one night in 22 seconds a earthquake destroyed my whole life as i knew and from that point you know what it was way easier to take decisions because you have nothing to lose but for me the real heroes the real difficult heroes are not for me like that in the in the haircut losing everything and just whatever it takes yeah you do it you lose nothing it's way more difficult now that decision that i took a few months ago just to say no let's stop let's stop even you if you have offers let's stop that so for everybody that is starting in there and you are in front of your computer right now watching and wondering the most difficult part is just to leave your comfort zone and just to risk but you have to be 100 in there just that working your reel working whatever you do your passion project echo for me was a passion project and i was nominated next to steven spielberg with a short film the first time ever that sure thing gets nominated in that in that category in the in the visual affairs society awards so it's like that is the only way you have to dedicate yourself to something a hundred percent if you are in there you arrive to the stars every single time because it's just as any anything else it's just how much time are you going to allocate to that well times is equals to work so at the end exactly everybody can do anything yeah exactly i'm i i couldn't agree with you more uh and sometimes i even you know stop myself of saying certain things um in a similar way that you're saying because of course we have also to take in consideration people that they don't really have a choice or or the the possibility of either studying more because they have you know a family that is too big and they don't have any time but that's the minority let's be honest that's the minority the great majority of the people they all have these big hopes and dreams and things that they would like to do but they don't do it purely the great majority of the times okay i'm just gonna underline this i'm saving some of the some other situations of course that sometimes are dramatic even but saving those the great majority of the people they don't pursue more for because of pure laziness or pure procrastination and this is and what you just described and you can't uh everybody that would like to know more about that story that victor uh just mentioned now you can watch victor's ted talk uh i think he was in italy right yeah yeah so sometimes that's what it takes it takes something uh life uh throws something at you that you were not expecting like an earthquake nobody expects an earthquake of course it's impossible to predict even at the time the scientists cannot do it uh so nobody can do it but there's a parallelism and this is what uh what i would like to talk to you which is that moment in your life with the current situation that we are living in it's not the same of course because of course that hit you uh you know particularly um hard uh and it happened with just a few uh hundreds of people or maybe thousands but it was not the entire world and in this case it's the entire world but the the the the fact of the matter remains which is this is an opportunity i really believe that this is an opportunity and i've been saying this from the very beginning of the show and actually coming you know having you on the show i knew that you would you would say something like that and uh and for everyone that is watching i cannot stress this point enough this is your time this is the time for you to develop new things because the world hit the pause button so you your life is pretty much stopped in in a lot of situations in a lot of cases um worldwide so it's time to develop new things uh of course that comes with the really hard work it comes with a lot of uh uh sacrifices as well uh especially this time at this point in time this is so weird what's happening in the world that of course our minds are sometimes like all over the place but it's totally possible and i really believe that this is the time uh for for us to do that a procrastination it's something that is a very human thing to do but it's it's really what stops you uh and what stops everybody uh and let's face it a lot of people and we've all been there so we all uh yeah we're all the same people to blame we are seniors as well in that case we all have our our you know um laziness moments which is okay as long as they don't overtake the other parts of your of the things that you want to do right yeah absolutely i mean procrastination is the consequence for me of not enough motivation so when you are doing oh hello but goals working so hard just because i want to get the best shot in history because i want to get there i want them to to acknowledge that oh my god this is the best short composite in the world but at the end when you get there it's like yeah there are no more people like everybody else exactly nice people but and then you don't see yourself grow up because it's like looking at yourself in the mirror and say oh my hair is not growing well no it's not bad it's like you are adapting to your own but you need to always have dreams and have goals if you don't have goals you are going to procrastinate because you don't know where you want to go so for me the procrastination is just something very natural which is a story of my life let's be clear with that um but you always have to look at something and look at yourself and say where do you want to be and you know that every minute you are expanding that is not never come back that is something that for me terrifies me every hour that's the same same here same here especially in this in this uh with this pandemic i have so many things that i want to do so many things in so little time and plus i have a kid as you just mentioned you also have a kid that is i'm sure it's uh it is young right uh hey so mine is almost four so they take a lot of our attention and um we love them don't get me wrong but at the same time we have so much things that we want to do that i find myself working hours on end during the night because that's the only time that i have that i can do that but at the same time there's a lot of other a lot of other days in which i'm so tired you know because a whole day has passed i woke up because i have a small kid i woke up really early in the morning i had this whole thing going on in my life and then by the time that i'm about to to do something i'm so tired and it's okay as long as you don't miss the point you will compensate later on it's okay but procrastination just for the sake of it will destroy your dreams and you will destroy everything one thing that i would like also to to mention um is a few i think it was maybe last year you um you did a talk with foundry about vfx supervision actually so now we we jumped from from that moment in time of your life from being a vfx compositor for now being uh uh well embark on that new um direction which is a vfx supervision and direction and um and you were saying that one of the most important things which ties in with with the conversation that we were having is being prepared and uh and and being prepared also it's uh also i believe what uh makes uh something that it's gonna be good luck or bad luck because i i i strongly believe that and i think i've said this before here in this in this um show which is good luck it's the combination of preparation and opportunity if you don't have one of these two variables the good luck will turn out to be bad luck and and with a bad luck like this chances are probably they will not you know the train will not pass again in the same station so probably you miss that train um uh and in it's so important to be prepared isn't it for everything that you you're about to do in life because you know the opportunities come up you never know when they will show up but as long as you're prepared they will be yours you want to expand that you know in every minute of your career whatever the role you are doing you are taking decisions and you are making your decision on the way so the more prepared you are you are going there is no i mean there is no flat line when you are building your career there are two directions you can go up that means you are prepared and you are growing with your confidence and you are helping others and you are going up or you are going down and going down means that your the director asks you questions that you have no answer or you cannot search for the answer in the time frame that you need to to respond or so the preparation is like to anticipate the moment just to earn time so it's as as i said before it's all about time so what you are doing in your preparation is just buying you yourself time for when the the questions arrive you need to have several answers not one answer because your answer is going to depend on what you find so when you are i mean the difference between a visual effects supervisor with a lot of experience and one without experience is that one has a lot of experience in getting mistakes so you are an ex specialist in error why because you make yourself your own mistakes so when you have a mistake you are going down but once you are going down because of that mistake you will never go down again so that means that you the next time you are going up so making making mistakes is part of the is part of the game but it doesn't mean that you don't need to worry about that it's like it you can you cannot predict something that you don't understand and before understanding things well you have to get on the field so sometimes i have to admit that sometimes i i make mistakes and it's like you feel so ashamed so terrible and so miserable but you need to understand that it's part of the game i mean it's like next next time you are never going to make the same mistakes oh that is the i mean that is the intention of course of course but that is as long as you learn as long as you learn with the mistakes you're already growing uh right because you're making the same mistake twice that means something you know didn't go well within your mind you you really didn't get it uh yeah so yeah no shame but everybody has mistakes and who thinks the contrary is just silly so of course but the thing is you are every time you are making a mistake you are being better the next time of course try not to make a critical mistake that is going to compromise everybody else so that's why you need to get prepared so you can you have to aim for the best and prepare for the worst so that is the philosophy i mentioned amen to that as the american as the americans say right um so you just mentioned the very beginning of course because it's obvious you are in this uh huge uh studio that is yours now and congratulations for that by the way um uh and you posted some photos of it again everybody that just joined you joined us recently you can you can check uh victor's uh i think you have an article also on escape technologies right escape technology and also aids so and now we are going to have i mean i i didn't have any idea that everybody was going to get so excited and everything started because i just post a picture of my desk and and someone said oh you have three monitors i was like what no no i have a screen a cinema screen imax technology screen so that is the important part so there i was taking photos and then i put it on on instagram and i got like wow a lot of responses so yeah so people can check it out yeah of course of course and you should of course uh everybody would like to have a piece like a a square inch of what you have there i i'm pretty sure so uh good for you man good for you i like that and um speaking of of that um you now have your own studio your you have your own suite and we are leaving this pandemic thing right which uh forced everybody to work from home um and uh you are doing that as well of course you know like everybody else right you're not like everybody else yeah but uh from your experience now as a director because you you are actively on the field where do you see uh the industry going in terms of this um you know on one hand new technologies that will require uh you know different approaches on set and different operations on post production as well and um and one of the things that definitely i think i believe it will change because there's no choice now it's the working from home or working remotely um yeah it would be great to to to hear your take on on what you see coming um in our industry towards that side of things well you know what before we were talking about opportunity so every crisis any moment of crisis is a moment of opportunity well you know what when i was i mean 10 years ago not that far 10 years ago if you wanted to work on a huge blockbuster you have to go either to vancouver or to london or one of those production hubs center cities now you have the opportunity to work on those from anywhere literally anywhere in the world and that is going to give you the opportunity of have a better life and not because in london i still have my my apartment in london and i love that city but the amount of time that i spend going to work in london it's just 45 minutes to go 45 minutes to come and then eating outside and then while i'm i mean i really love working from home i've been doing that many years ago even before going to london and the thing is now the time that i spend from the kitchen of mine of my house to my studio is less than a minute and every time that i want to have a break i'm going to my house that takes me 30 seconds because i i'm in it yeah um you know and sometimes it's like so i have another another rhythm in my life i don't need to be in those centers and another thing is like anybody can work from anywhere which means you don't need to make that that is a real sacrifice to live your own culture your own country i mean you did it as well yeah as as i did yeah and you have to leave your own space just to go and pursue for your own dreams and once you do the dream is like yeah but i miss him home yeah i'm missing my my friends in there and i'm missing my place so you have to decide one or the other and i'm not even talking about you know woman who wants to have a family that they have more limitation than us so this is going to democratize talent and that is the most important part because we we have been living in a world that technology is democratized everybody can have a computer that can do anything but now we are democratizing now talent so planning can be you know it's like ratatouille anybody can cook so now anybody can comp anybody can do 3d anybody can do animation of course it's not that easy because you need to require the requirements and you need the training but what i mean is like talent can be anywhere in the world right now and and also the mental health issue because as i just alluded uh before um you know sacrificing family friends your life you know that that you had before just to pursue your dreams which is a very noble thing to do don't get me wrong i did it and i already worked in three or four different continents so and and i believe there's very good things that comes with it as well but it comes to a point in which you should be able to decide and i don't see the reason because the technology i mean it's 20 20 come on everybody knows that it's possible so i think what was stopping um people from doing that is actually the studios and it's from i believe in i'm gonna say it's a false sense of security because banks have been doing you know in huge transactions anywhere in the world and if if there's you know something that is really you know personal and needs to be really needs to be really protected the banking industry it's amongst one of the top ones of course you know film industry of course has to be protected as well like any industry but the technology is there so i never really understood um why is that and i think this is as you just mentioned as well this may be an opportunity for things to change because now the door was forced to be open and it's going to be very difficult to close it again because it's been proven that it's it can work there's no issues in terms of security there's no issues in terms of uh you know uh leaks of uh intellectual property or anything like that uh and it's the same thing so uh and again on the mental issue there there are dramatic situations and i and i've we all heard the you know different stories in our lives people are commuting every every week to go from different countries i mean this is crazy to me you know what i mean so they will take a toll on your mental health they will take control on your mental family on your uh family life which is related with your mental health so i i don't see the point and we've all uh seen this um uh polling a few months ago that 90 or something crazy like that of professionals on post-production suffer from some sort of uh mental disability anxiety and all that stuff and this doesn't help you know what i mean so i think this will open a huge opportunity in this case but that's why i would like to to hear your your take on it because now you are on the other side of the equation which is you deal with the studies you we deal with the people that put the money into productions and it would be great to to know i just mentioned like what what's what's their take on or or what's their worries now that this hope this door has been open what's the worry or what was the worry all about you know what i mean it's it's been proven that there's nothing to be worried about uh yeah as you said it's all about the securities what's gonna happen with the data what's gonna happen with the data well you know what if i am a double negative and i take my phone and i just take a picture of the of the screen and i post it on my facebook i can do that and nobody can stop me but you know what that is a suicide it's a professional suicide because i'm just going to just to share what and just to spoil the thing what i'm getting from that so if you are a serious person you are not going to do that either at work or at your own place of course you need to improve your the security because of course if someone enters in your house and they steal the data yeah it's not your direct responsibility but you are responsible for that so we need to find ways to improve that security for instance my my my data when i'm searching the data is either on a safe or in the cloud so it's not in here so the cloud has a 256 characters uh chain of password so i don't even remember it's in a is in an encrypt with a biometric uh password so i cannot i mean nobody can st of course if they remove my thumb they have it but they can have the same thing i can lose my patch uh you know if i leave my batch it's exactly the same thing it's a false sense of securities it's it's uh it's all that is it's all it is and and you just mentioned anybody can take a picture on their monitors while they are in in the company and we for those of us that have been in industry for quite some years we all heard these stories and people were persecuted by that and they were blacklisted from the industry obviously right it's obvious that that that can happen anywhere even even if you're the most secure place because you have your phone with you you know what i mean so that is maybe what we need is like a watch dog or a new figure a professional figure that is someone that is going to travel around the world just to ensure that the environment of that artist is certified safe or to create so yeah it's another another improvement for the industry yeah it's something new we are not used to this and it needs to be built you know while you need things so it's a natural evolvement of the situation but for sure this is an evolution and you cannot stop the evolution first of all because working from home let's face it it's going to be cheaper for the companies because they don't have to pay for the space yeah i mean soho in london is the most expensive place in europe so having an office in there is so expensive while for instance when i was working in eco i i produced echo myself so i was working with people in argentina canada us france uk and i don't care about the hours they do it's like okay i'm giving you this task when can you do that oh okay give me a week and in a week if you have serious people working with you in a week you have it and i don't care if they have been working 24 7 or they did it in the last hour before the delivery i seriously don't care so this is what we need if what the companies maybe want is just to ah i need to keep you accountable you know what that is also fake because i have seen and you have seen for sure people on facebook on the companies are spending a lot of time maybe watching videos or whatever instead of doing it all the time all the time so this is what i mean is what are we talking about professionals are professionals in the office or at home the people that is wasting time is going to waste it the other way of course less the acknowledgement is like at home you have more temptation but if you are used to that that is not a problem it's like yeah i'm going instead of working from because this is the story of my life i really like to to wake up very very early in the morning sometimes at five six i work a lot in the mornings because i'm very productive i prefer mornings as well exactly for the same reason i'm more productive in the morning there's less distractions uh in the summer for example which is the time that we are approaching it's less hot so maybe at six ah no i don't i don't go to that length all right i i don't i don't wake up at five no i did that when my son was very very little and that was enough for because i did it for many months you know for me was exactly because of my son because i was putting him to sleep and then i was getting asleep with him so i was going to sleep something like 9 00 or 8 30 so at 3 in the night i was like i cannot sleep anymore and i was getting that rhythm and i was so nice so when i arrive at noon i'm already done with my day so i have the you know the rest of my day for doing other things you have more flexibility and i really believe we need to be more responsible both sides so we need to demonstrate that it is possible but this moment of change that is when we are going to demonstrate that this is possible and needs to be from both sides the companies that are going to trust us with that and the professionals that are going to be working for me working from this environment you have no idea how product it can be one hour in here it's like i have everything i'm going to dailies and for me going to dailies is this okay it's fine it's working that's it because i have the screen in there i don't need to go and go into a corridor and book the the screening room and oh no i have to wait an hour what can i do so no in here i have like i need to check a pixel in the b screen i'm going there okay i have it i check it here so everything is in my environment of course in mine has been designed specifically for that but i designed this before the pandemic i've designed this to work from home better than working at the studio and now i'm using that for my own production so no better i mean i seriously don't care for something more than for my own project because it's my own project so i want to spend my money the wisest wisely yeah of course of the ways but in here it's just like a dream come true and when i'm working with other artists if they ask me can i work at your studio and i have the space available yeah of course but if they ask me right now i have a an editor that is working with me and and she told me i prefer to work from home if you don't mind i said no absolutely no i don't want to have you here because i i like to have my own my own environment so if you want to come you have your own your own place but if you want to want from home i mean you are super welcome so she's productive i see that she's working sometimes very late in the evening or in the night but who cares right as long as they meet the deadline that's all you care about i'm sure they're like sharp every time and that is i mean what can i ask more from exactly i'm totally totally with you on that actually uh there was a point uh that i was about to to ask your opinion on and then i forgot and then your brother from a different mother is reminding us on the chat which is what about the rebates uh which is uh of course a a big part of the equation uh and the reason why um you know companies are in this country or that country and this country on that continent is purely because of tax rebates so there's there's still a huge and balanced uh part of the um i would say business model that is still really really heavily relying on the tax rebates for it to work how do you see that and what's your take on it um i'm going to say something that i don't necessarily share the the enthusiasm about that but it's like i'm going to make a situation which is if i want to get the tax rebate in canada and i'm not sitting any company specifically it's just general talking so if i need imagine that canada is giving you a certain rebate because you post produced your film in there so imagine that you get a computer you open an office in canada somewhere in canada you open an office but if you in there you put a computer with your frames with your software with them i'm going to i don't know germany because i love the life in germany and then from germany i'm connected remotely to my computer that is in canada the question is what is the what is the work done is done in germany or is done in canada but i think that's part of the problem these days because for example uh and and i'm speculating a little bit because i don't know this 100 to be honest but part of the reason why some countries including in the uk is um you know people of course need to work from home but they need to to be in the country i'm sure it's because that's the like the trade-off of the tax rebates like you have to have people working on the country to spend money and contributing tax to taxes for the country which makes sense uh on itself right uh but at the same time that this happens there are other companies in other countries they they allow people to work from home despite of where they are so i don't really get it i don't really get the logic here to be honest with you so that is the thing is there is a bit of blanks because this is actually very new so i don't think the world is prepared for all this philosophy of so what is going on so is the theme as as i said in the example is the fin actually produced in germany because i'm handling the computer that is in canada from or is in canada but what is the what is the comment the money coming from that is the question is is coming from canada because if coming from canada you are paying your taxes in canada it makes sense but if it is if you are paying from germany with a computer so there is a lot of it's like clear things in here yeah it's inserted territory so of course i understand that companies and studios and and you know whoever has the money to invest in these projects uh it's it's they're still figuring out i believe but i don't think uh there's turning back uh honestly now that this door has been opened i think uh it's here to stay honestly um all right cool uh guys do you have any any final question be before we go to the note fight because everybody's asking for the note fight now [Laughter] if you have if you have a any other questions please do it now otherwise we're going to move really quickly because it's been over an hour uh today with victor which is always a good thing uh but if you if people are okay note fights fight everybody's asking asking for the note fight nobody has any more questions for you victor so should we do it let's do it let's do it then all right notified [Music] all right you ready all right reflections ah shader reflections basic material a hole is a specularity no no shininess at all no diffuse no any anything of that it's just a specularity oh next one additive king favorite process sorry additive king additive king yeah um well that that that is for [Laughter] minus ibk color minus the the the the plate with the color with the green screen and then plus and on the background a bit of rotoin and masking on things all right favorite gear sorry favorite here favorite gears uh that is like did you love more mom or bags no way um okay key light you like i'm with you on that uh glow glow i do have it's just a bit of blur and a bit of plastic that's it that's it that's our glow actually works actually uh crowds crowds um i don't touch those things no no no just cards laying out cards uh so i prefer to have the singular elements of the crowd shooting on blue screen or green screen and then lane every car even procedurally but yes i prefer to have everything looking at the camera with the look at um 3d space cars looking in the space i'm faking the shadows that is the best one nice uh this is kind of a favorite one of the public so i'm gonna i'm it's a it's kind of a curveball all right but i'm gonna ask you fake subsurface blur that is a a blur thing i um a blur with a um a roach and a color a lot of color in there and i always do that i mean to improve and so when you get the road and the blow you always look like something in there by the by the way the road the best for for this is like the they want the procedural one not the filter the other the dialect i wrote um that behaves like a like a glow let me let me like with the questions with the gaussian filter uh is the blur a roadblock i wrote one all right okay last one all right yeah volumetrics oh god raise all the way oh come on all the way volume race i would say but i prefer even the they got raised because i can paint things that are not in the in the show so yeah i can create trays that are not even and i can fake that even when it looks like 3d faking a lot i love to fake things in 2d i'm so dirty cool nice nice one man we did around 10 i believe or even more than that and people are loving it did you like that i love it i love it i wasn't expecting this especially the dirty part people are referring so dirty yeah i'm intending and always tending to the 2d take on every task yeah yeah but faking things is actually what uh what we do all the time right if you want things to be exactly if you want thing to be like really precise ask your fellow um artists from the 3d side because as compositors we are always faking things uh for dependent feet of selling the shot and that's it uh that's what we do and uh actually on the tech corner a lot of times that that i uh you know giving tips and tricks it's all about faking things um and that's it that's that's that's what we do i guess uh once again victor thank you thank you so much i think it was a really nice one uh people seem to enjoy it as well let's see if everybody's laughing saying so good um a lot of good things happening here on the chat so if everybody wants to ask a final question to vitor this is the time because let's face it this guy must be exhausted the i i don't know let's be honest you've been you've been talking for about maybe three hours if not more right i love attention [Laughter] all right cool uh carlos your your your brother he's saying that he could stay here all night as if he did as a as if he doesn't is not um all night working or doing whatever god knows what anyway yeah um maybe we see each other in lisbon one of these days man we'll see i would love to i would love to you and i have to go to portugal that i love that country i really love lisbon listen i really like italy as well uh and i'm and i'm not i'm not saying this just because you're here uh people that are in this chat some of them i know personally they know what i'm what i'm saying because i always say next time i go to a different country in europe it's gonna be italy um [Laughter] all right man so one final question uh victor do you need help psychological help for sure well probably probably i'm going to and you know i'm not i mean i'm not a company creating visual effects but i'm always doing things for for i mean for doing my tests and things and i always get uh fresh people i like to to get even to help people to to grow so just stay tuned and always posting some if something related in my linkedin so you can just go to my page that is www victor perez dot co dot uk and in there you can find all my social media if you follow sometimes i'm posting uh a few openings or whatever so let's let's see uh once again guys uh i've mentioned here when we were talking with each other a few talks that victor uh did uh one of them recently the other one has some some ears both of them are available on youtube so check them out i'll be posting them uh the link on the comments as well after the live but if you're looking for inspiration in difficult times i think the ted talk can can be a good one for you because yeah it's when you face difficult times that uh you see yourself um obliged to to respond uh and i've been saying this from the very beginning we are leaving a moment like that so don't lose sight of of that place for your own benefit all right victor thank you once again uh please stay on so we can have a chat afterwards guys that's the benefit of being the host of the show all right but guys see you next uh next week and uh i'll be posting uh next week sometime next week when the other the next one will be but stay on alright bye-bye see you thank you you

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Length: 89min 0sec (5340 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 27 2020