Olly Tyler - motion graphics and 3d

6 Apr 2020

08 Tutorial to make a breakdown of your Nuke composite

This tutorial shows a simple way to make a labelled breakdown of your composited sequence. This would be useful if you are making a showreel and want to show how you made a visual effect or alterations to original filmed footage. Made for my students at Greenwich University to make breakdowns of their projects during the Coronavirus term extension allowed through April.

Grading Principles

Comping Multipass CG renders in Nuke

Breaking down and comping a single 3d render using Nuke. The multipass 3d render is separated out into the various constituent passes - diffuse, specular, shadows, ambient occlusion. Then they are layered up one at a time over the background footage. This tutorial uses Maya with Arnold and NukeX

Planar tracking tutorial using Nuke X

Video tutorial on planar tracking using NukeX . Part of a series of basic skills for VFX work. This video is an english language version of a video made in Hindi by learning lab. The free to download footage is from Hollywood camerawork

Nuke Chroma key tutorial / exercise using two keys

This tutorial was recorded at Greenwich University in 2020. This lesson was to demonstrate a VFX method for making a good chromakey combining a good subtle key for edge details and hair plus a hard key for keeping interior details. Learn to get a good edge key using Keylight. Also using Keylight you can make and add an InMatte . Using a Roto shape you can make an OutMatte garbage matte.

Roto-splining the Flying Carrots

This tutorial was recorded at Greenwich University in 2020. This lesson was to demonstrate a VFX method for making a magic flying bowl of carrots. This is a basic lesson covering ROTOSCOPING, CLEAN PLATE use and MERGING to remove unwanted elements in the footage.

Herd Immunity

Nuke Tutorial - Clean Plate Prop Removal - The Levitating Colt 45 Pistol

A simple tutorial for merging through to a clean plate to make an object fly. We will remove the unwanted prop and hand of the operator to make the pistol appear to float into the air. This tutorial will teach skills in clean plate production and rotoscoping as well as simple grading and image manipulation

Intro to 3d Compositing and Projections in NukeX

Lecture at Greenwich University for the VFX Principles module 2020. Recreating a 2d still background in a 3d environment. Adding a chromakeyed person to the scene and making a 3d camera move into the scene. The tutorial is an introduction to the basic 3d nodes and to cards and projections within the 3d environment. Footage can be found and downloaded at the Hollywood Camera Work website . www.hollywoodcamerawork.com The warehouse can be found on Google

10 Feb 2020

Tutorial 01 - Basic Nuke Comping

So as part of my new role teaching VFX at the University of Greenwich I am recording tutorials which I have made. Here's the first one I've recorded from home.

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1 May 2019

Lenny and Spex 2d character animation

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Before last Christmas 2018 I worked at Toast TV in Soho on a 2d character animation in Aftereffects. The 30 second animation was a Trinidad cinema commercial for an optician.

22 Nov 2018

3d Industrial / architectural visualisations

A selection of 3d renders showing large complex environments created in Maya. 3d showreel

oil refinery

development in Saudi Arabia

bridge in Nigeria

housing project in Damascus

16 Oct 2018

Sundance Film Festival Projections

3d render from 2014 project for the digital archives of the Sundance Film Festival. Sponsored by HP the archive was launched at the festival and I produced the HD projections for the room where the archive was being promoted. More images, movie and info about this project here.

8 Oct 2018

Music Promos and Event Graphics

I've worked on many pop promos and music ads and events since the early nineties. Amongst many artists I've made graphics featuring: Bjork, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lana Del Ray, Abba, Frank Sinatra and a host of lesser known acts.

pop promo for Ultragirls

pop promo for Hannah

Cyberdolls

hologram for Lucianna

TV album promo for Italian boy band Il Volo

Abba animations hologram for Abba museum, Stockholm

pop promo for Zlata - Ukrainian Eurovision winner

Sinatra hologram for Simon Cowell

DJ Eric Pridz - Randstad hologram

30 Sept 2018

iGaming Graphics

There was a boom in online gambling around 2010 and I worked on a whole lot of different projects for brands Bet Fred, Sky Vegas, Poker Night Live, CelebPoker, Coral, Gala TV, Betfair TV, Racing Post, Bingo on the Box, Bingo Palace, Golden Palace, Super Free Bingo. There were a mixture of TV and online advertising plus we made actual programme and game onscreen graphics assets. Some graphics were for live playout systems - others for the programme editors to use. I made a short compilation showreel with some of the best bits here.


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mobile UI design for game on out of home screens. I also made the slots and handle animations in AfterEffects and Blender.

3d dice animation for BetFred promo

roulette wheel 3d model mad for iGaming promos

22 Sept 2018

3d Generalist Portfolio

Olly Tyler Maya modeling, texturing, compositing, directing and supervising - taken from commercial and private projects between 1999 and the present. I have been using Maya since it came out as version one. I am expert at modelling, texturing, lighting, animation, rendering. I have used Redshift, Arnold and Vray. I also know some dynamics, particles and rigging. I can also use Blender and Substance Painter. 3d showreel on Vimeo