week 7 (term 3)

This week Ive been working on the Panning shot that goes up through the jungle tree leaves and out the other side to show the top of the jungle trees, the mountains, the sky and the main focal point, the temple. i layed out the scene in Maya using canopies of leaves on alpha channels and layered these up one behind the other, gradually getting going into the distance to create depth. I then modelled and textured a temple and placed this quite far away, just poking through the canopies of leaves. Then in Photoshop i did a matte painting of a distant jungle, with mountains and sky all in a light fog. This is a background painting i then put on a plane in Maya at the very back of my scene. With a camera i panned up through the leaves to the top, trying to adjust the camera to the exact angle so that the shot would look realistic. Also this week the group working on Cafe de beignet needed some foilage for there cafe so i gave them two different plant models to use from my jungle.