Final Week

Wow! Its done. I can't believe its all finished. This week has been a mad rush of editing and rendering. We have now rendered the whole film. It looks amazing. However we did have a few problems. For example, untextured objects but to be honest its hardly noticeable. We will re-render these shots anyway for the degree show. We also discussed credits and how we could present them at the end in an exciting way. Something different to the usual scolling up. So i suggested that for the degree show we do something in a indianna jones style, following a dotted line on a map, that passes through are names.I was able to get the final sound from my sister our sound designer and it fitted perfectly with the film. Although we had a few problems in getting the sound effect volume levels right with the soundtrack. Some sound effects need to be turned down and some brought up. Other than that it sounded fantastic. Our Composer Alistair did a brilliant job on the soundtrack. The music really adds so much to the film. It's made the film more fast paced and exciting. I'm so pleased with the look of our film. Everyone has done such a good job and worked so hard to make the film what it is. Rob and Jono have been brilliant as Producer and Director. It's been really great working with them. We all seemed to get on so well as a team, not forgetting Giles, Dan and Ben as well.

This is the shot im most proud of for my modelling and texturing. I love that bump map!

week 9 (term 3)

At the start of this week i managed to do a little bit of secondary animation. In the last shot of our film a squashed cake slides own the kitchen wall and splats onto a table. I animated the cake sliding and the splat using some blendshapes. I animated a few other things in this shot like the cherry on the cake falls off and bounces, the kitchen cupboard falls and a picture frame swings. Again this week i was asked to texture. I would have liked to have done more animation and have persistently asked for more to do. However everyone in the group is good at animation so there is a surplus of skill in this area but not enough to meet the demand for texturing. So i was asked to texture the temple entrance stones, more pillars and uv map and texture some stairs in the house enviroment. The house exterior shot had to be finished. Rob asked me to add foilage, a background painting, lite it and have it ready for rendering. Most of this week has been spent rendering the final scenes. We wanted to get most of it done by this week so that it could be sent of to Rhiannon for grading. She has very kindly offered to help us out. We have the final animatic ready for our sound designer and i am also managing to help out in this area, recording different sounds needed for the temple and jungle.