Compositing

Below are a few screenshots taken from my hand-in folder demonstrating a few of the shots that I composited together.

Compositing is not easy. It takes ages! And is extra stressfull especially when objects aren't rendering because the render farm is going crazy and time is ticking away! After going through the compositing process I feel really comfortable using After Effects which is cool, because I've previously found it confusing, but it's amazing how much you pick up, when there is no other choice but to learn and to learn fast!

Below are some diagrams explaining more about the compositing process. Please click on an image to enlarge :)

Background Tree Animation

Dan Dali had mentioned to us in a tutorial that we should think about applying background animation to our film to make sure that the environments didn't look static. At the beginning of the film, there are trees seen in the background that I had painted in previously. When watching the blockout of the trees with no animation, it was obvious that Dan was right. Jake had previously looked into a way to animate the trees automatically within the scene. However, this plan would no longer work, as after importing the trees into the scene, one of us must have deleted the history of the objects and this was no longer possible. To solve this problem, I applied curves to the trees and animated them this way.

Attempt 1:




Too rigid.




Alot smoother.



In the environment, final tree animation.

I realised that there would more than likely be more secondary animation needed throughout the film. Just animating those trees moving simply made me realise how out of practise I had become with my animating skills. I attempted to create a walkcyle for practise, in case I had to animate anything else within the film.

Hahaha booooo!!! Attempt 1- a limp, leaning to one side, un-moving head... not very impressive.

Final attempt.

Windmill Animation

I animated the sail turning , not Cho :P Not exactly groundbreaking animation but it's just an example to show the sort of background animation I will be attending to. I wont be attempting anything major with the characters, as that would defiantly take me a while and would mean that I would slip behind with the rest of the jobs I have to take care of. Also.... Cho is not going to look like this in the final film!!!!