First Sound

Well first I will talk about what today I got.
Hugh got me the first edit of the sound, and I really, really like it.
We had then a talk about it.
We will not use a sound track or any music track as background, there will be only the sounds and voices of the growing plants, movements and there "communication".

There is the first edit:





How you can see, the sound is a bit longer then the animation, I need to ask Hugh why this is but some how like this it will be sound :)


After the meeting with Hugh, I met my supervisor Ray. And went over my project. There where a deep talking about Universe and light and non-seen sound. what was really helpful.

Because I'm flying tomorrow to Germany for 6 days, I was using the last days just
for rendering different layers. Those layers will be used with after effects to make
the final edit.

I have now to stop writing because I need some sleep before my fly. I will finish my writing after arriving.

No coventgarden

So,
I actually didn't like the idea of changing all my project to putting place in Covent Garden because the idea behind my concept will be damaged. How ever, this doesn't mean that the Media production group are not allowed to use my designs.

My supervisor want me to take pictures of my storyboard-wall what I have in my room because this will be interesting to see how it is in process. So I will do this tomorrow when I'm back from Uni or on Friday.


I have changed the window shot and have now stars at the background.

but now I am really tired and can't see the keyboard any more, I will post tomorrow then some new stuff... good night.

Starting with Edit

Well it is not done, there will be some changes (well in the time of uploading I have changed alot of light setups) but just for demonstrate how it will look like.

This is one of the shots (the secound shot after showing the building)




How some of you have relzed in the background is the coven garden. This is because I'm helping a group from the Media production module. They want to transfer coven garden in to a "alien"-forest and will be used my plants :)

Walls and Windows

So, well There are the render shots of my window detail and a short view of the wall staff, Is going better and better.

Tomorrow I think I will start to make my first editing.

This is a detail shot from the Window, I will use as background a star-sky.
maybe I will render it again because there are some bits growing just like this in the air and not from the wall.


The next one will be used to cover the walls.

So far

I started editing the first stuff together and this is how it look like so far.
I needed some hours until I found a way how to combine light with painteffects. It is a bit tricky but it works :) now I need to make some better light setups, because the turning on and off is not smooth.




it still looks empty but no more long :)

Sound and Folie

So,
The meeting with my supervisor today was really helpful.
We managed to get my soundtrack and folie be done by someone else.
That mean I can more focus on my Animation and, the important part,
The lighting and Atmosphere. Also we talked about how I will present
my work with my other skills and got new ideas how to make my shots.

Before this I had a talk with a teacher how had a look on my work, and
she had brilliant ideas for me how to make the shots in a way to give
a good feeling of everything.

Till next week I have to be done my storyboard and also done some renderings
of it, that means I have long nights and a "one day"-weekend.

Storyboard Changes

Well,
After I have done my test renders and trying around how to make the lighting this good as possible, I have realized that there is not really time to make the animation how I would like to have it. At the beginning I was talking about Nature reclaiming a Building. But if one plant-shot needs around 25-50sec. there is no way to make the reclaiming of all flours. This Wednesday I will have a Meeting with my Supervisor and talk about couple of subjects. First obviously about the storyboard. But then I have also to start now to think about the Folie and the Music. Because I need to know if
I will produce it or if I a friend, how is making his BA in Sound, can produce it for me.

This Weekend I will hopeful scan my first Storyboard and publish it for you.
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Render Tests

I started now to take a look what difrence are making the rendering of Maya Software and Mental Ray.

Also I have just done some tests about Paint effects and polygons.
Basically after finishing setting up the animation of the Paint effect I transferred it to poly.
Then I have animated it once as Poly and once as Painteffect. to see the difference.

This one is rendered with Mental-ray.




This one is rendered with Mayasoftware,at the end the right one is a Painteffect and the left one is a Poly object.



For now on I think there is not really big difference what I will use but because there is no light in the scene, I am sure that there will be changes after this.
So I started now to make some tests with light and will again render once in mental ray and once and mayasoftware and decide what will be better.