Last BG

3rd Aug 2013





Finally tying up loose ends of 'The Mailbox'. The editing and compositing is almost done. I had to do a lot of emergency work and extra bgs and special effects. It's been a frustrating journey trying to learn AE on your own. Luckily I had some help from Rajeev Uncle who helped with some basics.

Here's one of the last few bgs I had to paint. Must be one of the simplest done out of lack of patience but it works. Had to make a lot of compromises so far.

 

And for some people who want to start living and believing again, you'd be honoured to find this. 

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.

Shot 5_3

26th September 2012


I have shifted to the comp lab thanks to the departure from Pune of my close friend and bench-mate Vicky Punjabi. Things are better here than there in the noisy stinky class. I did a whole lipsynch shot today and I'm SO happy with how it turned out. I learned more than I did with the stupid lipsynch assignment we had done back in Sem 5. Such a waste. This is how you learn!

Also my friends said the sound is unclear, so I'm gonna have to re-record Ishan's voice. I hope that can be synched to this animation or I'll have to re-animate also! :(

Enjoy!

Shot 4_13

23rd September 2012

One of my shortest, but favorite shot of 'The Mailbox' - finally got a preview of how things look fully colored! Hope the whole film turns out this way!

Scene 1 - Linetests

29th August 2012

Finally I exported some of the final tests before cleanup and color. These are from Sc #1.

s4_6 - Francis reaches home

Francis reaches home from the Library to find that someone's visited his home.

Sc 4_2 - Postman sneaks in

First colored test shot from the mailbox