André's student blog

AFP week 17

ahustoft — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:23:47 +0000

Final week of the project! A lot of waiting has been done this week. Waiting for renders to be finished so we can do one last scan to see if anything needs fixing. We found some minor things that needed fixing here and there, like stuff penetrating where it should not and small things textures not being rendered, bones that should have been hidden etc. Me and Kjell also went over each scene rendering out a Z-depth render-element so we could use that for bluring out things as needed.

After everything was rendered Kjell put it all together in after effects and added bluring where it was needed. I went on to gathering all of our final production files together with Lars finished everything up during Thursday. After everything was done me and Kjell made sure to burn everything to 4 dvd’s and making sure they all worked as intended. Friday morning I did one last check of the dvd’s and made sure they worked, and then handed them all in.

AFP week 16

ahustoft — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:42:34 +0000

Used all of this week for test renders and also been trying to get as many shots as possible ready for the final render, waiting for Lars’s animation to be finished so we can put together the final shots and make them ready for render. Other than that I’ve made sure that all the particles and fumes are ready, and found that I’ll have to fix one of them once all the animation is in place.

AFP week 15

ahustoft — Tue, 31 May 2011 09:53:40 +0000

This week me and Christer have been doing some sound recording. We have also done render tests of entire shots this week, so that we could have a look if there was anything wrong and correct those things if needed.

AFP week 14

ahustoft — Tue, 31 May 2011 09:45:22 +0000

This week I have done more particle & smoke effects as well as continuing with the render tests.

AFP week 13

ahustoft — Tue, 31 May 2011 09:37:50 +0000

This week I have been doing some render tests of some of the different scenes as well as continuing with some of the particle and smoke effects. Will continue to do render tests and work on the particle and smoke effects this and next week.

AFP week 12

ahustoft — Tue, 31 May 2011 09:17:10 +0000

This week i finished of the displacement maps I was working on last week. I went on to working on some particle effects for some of the different scenes, I suspect I will spend this week and next week on this. The scenes Ill be focusing on this week is a scene in the apprentice room with some dust falling from the roof, as well as some smoke for the wizard study room. Screens shots will be put up when I have the time for it.

AFP week 11

ahustoft — Thu, 05 May 2011 09:19:05 +0000

This week I have been working on making displacement maps for our outside scene and out servant room scene. We choose to go with displacement maps so we can cut down the amount of object in the scene. The maps I am making will be for the walls of the room and hallway and for the tower walls. due to the high amount of stones we want to have covering the walls.And I hope to be done with this mid next week.

AFP week 10

ahustoft — Thu, 05 May 2011 09:13:39 +0000

This week has been devoted to texturing and more or less only texturing. We focused on getting the wizard study-room finished so Kjell could start lighting it as soon as possible. It’s also the easter holiday so we had a couple of days off near the end of the week.

AFP week 9

ahustoft — Thu, 05 May 2011 08:57:28 +0000

This week we tried finishing up all of the modelling as best we could, and I believe we made it. Of course there will probably be minor tweaks here and there but for the most part we are done. So now all we need to do is texture everything next week. Screenshots of some of the stuff will come along at a later point.

AFP week 8

ahustoft — Thu, 05 May 2011 08:52:21 +0000

This week i put the dog away for a bit to do some of the more dire things for the film, Most of the week had gone to modelling interior for the different scenes. I’ve mostly been modelling props. So basically this week has just been a whole lot of modelling. Next week we will hopefully be done with modelling and start texturing