End of year thoughts

We have been taking a little break from the film for the past weeks. I think its a good thing. We are happy that the film was quite well-recieved by the audiences from the Screening Night, Industry Night and the Awards Night organized by the University. Its not completed yet but its about 90% done. We still have some re-rendering to do and some little changes to be made. Also, due to some festivals requirements, we cant post the film online. But we will definately do it after that.

I cant believe that we are at the end of the year now and that we have actually completed our honours degree. We have got our marks back and its all good. Our graduation is on this weekend and its all happening too fast. I think i have learnt alot this year and i would really like to thank Matthew for being such a patient, multi-talented, smart, hardworking and humble partner to work with. Whichever studio that hires him is a lucky one : )

updateage

Long time no post. Weve finally completed our thesis' and handed them in and also the film for assessment. The film itself is nearing completion but we still have quite a bit to render and lots more tweaking. Jane helped us out with some funky music and sound effects which are great and work well with the film visuals. Im pretty pleased with what we have achieved, considering the 6-7 month timeframe we had to work with, after the first idea was dropped in the first few weeks of the course. Heres some piccy action



This is a sample render from the film, titled 'Norma chilling at her desk'. We didnt anticipate such long render times after our initial tests but i guess its all part of the process. After a bit of tweaking weve managed to get some renders down to aroun 8- 10 min/frame which is a huge improvement over what we were initially facing.

Sick of uni

Matt has been doing animation for the past weeks. And we have been testing out SSS shader for Ted's skin together with the HDRI environment renders. We are facing some problems in the rendering layers. The SSS shader doesnt seems to work in the render layers...
I have also changed the look of Electris (Norma's avatar), and Ted's avatar. Will set up all the game scenes for animation soon.

3D animatic (Rough version)

A 3D animatic of the film. Some shots missing though.

Render test

I've been doing some render tests for the office and fixing up Norma's glasses while Matt is animating. Her glasses are supposed to magnify her eyes for a more stylistic look. The eye textures in the render below is not the updated one yet.


We went to the Ed Hook's acting workshop last weekend. He de-constructed our film and offered some good suggestions on the story and characters. He is pretty friendly and cool. We recieved some good feedback from the audiences too.

2d animatic

This is a 2d animatic from some time ago but thought wed post it on here. 3d animatic coming soon

Game Environments update

Publish Post


Some updates. Been finishing up all modelling and texturing work and testing HDRI renderings.