Saturday, March 17, 2007

Schedule wise ... tomorrow I plan on finalizing blend shapes and Dee's Rig.
I need to swap out Rosa's older model with the new one and adjust the weights. I'll try copying them again, but I've had limited success with that.

Then, I think I'm down to updating and improving my animation and I'll render everything out from now on. I have my render settings down with some testing to do in AfterEffects re: color adjusting.

I feel like I've made a lot of headway these past few weeks, but I feel very limited time wise. Once I get a few of the tougher scenes in better shape with render times worked out I'll be a lot happier. I think my render times will be around 5 minutes per frame. Maybe more the ones with water in the bird bath.

Whereever I could, I went procedural. The roses are now ramp shaders. The only textures I have are the birdbath, the bricks, Rosa, Dee and the wooden handles on the shovel and rake.

I'm really pleased with my tree gobo.

A big step will be replacing the garden sets in my existing scenes with a referenced version of the latest.

One day I'll write about my adventures in ZBrush, but not tonight.

What's left to do for Tuesday? The updated shotlist, schedule, problem areas and any new animatics I can produce.

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