To bring Captured Melody to life Visual Effects will make up a good part of the story in this short. We plan to use 3D particle effects in scenes where magic is involved and utilize advancements in motion capture technology to bring the character Melina to life. In the story Melina is cursed into ceramic form as a fairy figurine, but when Beth's touches her, Melina comes to life in cermaic form. A good film to use for an example it Night of the Museum 2 where the statues come to life.

In order to create Melina, a sculpture was first made by hand and then, molded. Next, a NextEngine 3D scanner was used to captured the figurine into 3D. I was lucky enough to do this at Siggraph 2008 in the testing booths.

The next part of the process will be getting the character in a T-Pose and getting the dress to come alive using Maya N Cloth. Current work on this process in on going.