Thursday, 18 August 2011

I noticed today once the levels are adjusted Ian and Darren’s red back scatter from the skin tends to stand out way to much. A way round this would be to re render the sequences with it off. However I don’t want to lose the effect around the ears so a second way would be to create a back scatter map for the back scatter values. Keeping the areas around the mouth and neck quite low with the areas around the ears quite high. Since I have till December to finish the film it isn’t a problem with the schedule, and will start the new renders of those sequences after the other bugs have been fixed. Anyways onward!

Sunday, 14 August 2011

I am about halfway through re rendering buggy sequences and adjusting the colour levels of certain points. At this rate unless any other bugs are spotted I am hopeful to have this part of the film wrapped in only another week. I have 11 more sequences to re render. However 4 of those sequences are just adding star effects to the scene. Its going allot faster than i originally guestimated

Thursday, 11 August 2011

I have been bug fixing the film for the last week. About quarter the way though the bugs then will adjust the levels of the film to produce nice lighting effects and ambience. I am generally using the last shot showing on the previous post as a template for the levels to the sequences, and began working on each shot the other day. However I decided its best to do the levels once the entire film is finished so I can keep the levels consistent throughout. I tend to over expose the frames to give a nice light of the character and not the background. Perhaps if I were to make a film like this again it may be worth lighting these separately and rendering backgrounds and foregrounds separately.

I should have the film complete by mid September. With each shot needing re rendering taking about a day. With over 17 sequences that need fault fixing or affects added, I expect to have this part of the short completed soon. I would say it takes about 3 days per sequence

Wednesday, 03 August 2011

I have wrapped the animation side of the movie now and am only two days behind the schedule I had planned. I still have a lot more rendering to do, fix lighting issues and some bugs in the scenes. But all the animation work is done.
Over the next two months I will re render some of the sequences, for better lighting and some of the problems I have noticed (missing windows, missing green objects, bad lighting, hair problems) but wont now post the film online until complete.
I am also going to work out a title sequence for the film, in cg rather than added latter. With the title “on the line” attached to the door as it opens and fades out. It should look quite snazzy and in line with the rest of the film.
I had a few ideas for the titles, an animated line that went through the title, or different fonts and animations. But in the end decided sticking with the look it has now yet adding it to the scene so it appears 3d would suit best the theme of the movie. Quite simple but to overcomplicate the title with something that didn’t go with the theme would ruin the movie.

Here is an image from the last sequences