3-d @ MindSay

I spent the last 3 days doing this;

  Whatcha Think? IT's supposed to be a sort of cheap TV teaser for MIB 2. I had to cover requirments ofr two assignments, so thus why it's a touch on the short side as it is developed for TV ad positions.

And why the hell is my name a "suggested tag?????" I should investigate... I might be popular.

..... False alarm, it's just suggesting I tag myself :P

-- Lory

My most recent assignment was a shot compositing assignment, that is, camera work, animation, sound and music as opposed to modeling and graphic detail. Essential, replacing the basic models with high-end models and textures are all that should be needed to finish the production. So I've spent the last week and a half animating, adding special effects, applying sound and music tracks to this clip to produce a story. Whilst the script was given to us, the way we presented it was entirely up to us. So here it is, and it's also been added to my Wiki page. Keep in mind this entire clip is almost 2.5 minutes long.

-- Lory

".... Hey man, look at me rocking out I'm on the radio!"

Well I handed my assignment in at 5pm today, complete as it was, to a very VERY crappy quality. Me being so tired didn't help. I forgot to bring my portable HDD home with my work on it, which is a little annoying for me cause I really want o finish it properly for my Demo reel in a couple months.

I start a new assignment tomorrow and when that's done I get to kill two birds with one stone (metaphorically), I dont' think I could pointlessly kill anything unless I needed to, but the point is one I do the next two assignments I'll have completed them in another course too (same assignment, slight differences). Which rocks because I have everything ready which means I have extra time to make an AWESOME composition.

Well it's now just on 60 hours of me being awake, and I have school tomorrow.

I'm in a really weird mood because of all this, I'm tired, but not because I'm past that point now, I'm really horny too. Which is something that I haven't been for the past week or so, especially with all this school work n' stuff.

Anyways, I'm off to bed, I'll post final rendered images tomorrow in their full glory quality!

-- Lory

I'm acutally having issues comprehending what I'm doing. There is no way I can get the quality I want in on time, however I feel that with a little help from my teacher I'll be able to cheat a bit and have a submittable assignment that I won't be required to re-submit (but I will later). This way I can complete it properly as the real time constraint is rendering. I need to render 502 frames minimum in this assignment. 2x Still images of different states and a 20 second animation (500 frames).

Now, this might not seem like much but at the level of rendering I'm doing, (potentially film / movie quality) it took 30 mins to render 1/6th of a single frame. so that's 30 x7 for a single frame, so that's a theoretical 180mins or 3 hours for a single frame. I am forced to cut quality due to time as I lack a render farm of sorts that companies have access too. Of course, it does mean I can easily render 2 frames by tomorrow morning and do a much lower quality animation that'll be done by 5pm (11 hours time)

Anyways, here is where I'm up to now; I have to turn the first image, into the second image over 20seconds (just in case your wondering where the animation comes in) and I need to add actual movment into the scene as opposed to everything just staying still :P.

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  I have some tweaking to do, a lot of tweaking, but just maybe I"ll be able to pull this off.

-- Lory

It's now some 4 hours and a bit after my last post. And thisis what I have achieved in that time, including dinner :P.

  I've almost finished my third red eye and am doing almost everything on instinct. I sitll have to make 3 more texture maps to cover the crates and doors, then duplicate all of them to make bump maps, spec maps and anything else I might need in the way of mapping textures.

I STILL need to animate everything and render it too, and so I return to dragging through texturing my assignment in time to render it tomorrow.

I might have to break open a no-doz soon.

-- Lory