Overflowing water shot

17th June 2013

Finally finished one godforsaken shot from Scene 5. It lasts for just a second but has so many goddamn frames of moving water. Still need to be clever with loops. This one's not a loop. Luckily I found a good reference on youtube. Although I'm not entirely happy with this shot I don't think it could get any better. :( It's been ages since I updated here - because the progress is so slow its barely worth updating! Here it is. Took nothing less than 4 hours. :'( I hope it was really required.

Update and observations

22nd January 2013



Obviously it's been too long since I posted here! I wish I had kept on updating this but I have been so invested in the film, I just want to finish it on time. I've been under a lot of pressure balancing my Atnovus work and The Mailbox work. Animation is painstaking and the output is very disappointing considering I knew very little then as I know by now. The process of film making is so long and tedious that when you reach the last shots, you realize how ugly the first shots look and you just want to redo it, but you can't. You have to tell yourself that the time has passed and you have to move on to grow. You're learning, and for that you have to finish something, not keep holding onto it and perfecting it.

Cleanup is taking really really long and I've sort of figured out what went wrong earlier. I should have done another pass of cleaner lines and then done the final cleanup rather than directly coming to the final cleanup. It's totally ruined my animation! Also you have to keep flipping and keep the lightable on at all times, or you lose the flow of the animation and start to do it mechanically. But I can't afford to redo so many shots! So I'm just gonna do the incomplete ones.

Sigh. Then I gotta color and do light passes, and try to reduce the background's appearance. Finally I have to composite on after effects - something I have no idea how to do.

Anyway, that's all for now. Mosquitoes are killing me. It's 2:15 AM and I'm alone in college. It's much more peaceful and focused than during the day. Gotta get rid of machchar (mosquitoes) though.
It's been a great experience so far, and I've become a much more focused determined and hard working individual. I think I can endure anything now.


Goodnight blog! :)

Here are some fully rendered screenshots I had to sent to the placement cell.