Scheduling

Below is part of the schedule for which I shall be carrying out different stages of the project from rendering to compositing to completion. Of course the schedule may undergo certain changes depending on state of progress and if any setbacks/problems occur.

Final Animatic

This is the final animatic for my overall piece. After a talk with Mike Smith, we both decided that there was too much to do for this project in such a short period of time so I lowered the duration of the film down to a minute and a half. Still got a narrative in there as I wanted to show off more than just character design and environmental modeling. There may be some shots that I have to complete through compositing as rendering takes some time depending on the complexity and detail of the scene. 

Matte Paintings

Of course the environment I've produced will not be complete without a matte painting for the rest of the background so I looked up references and found some original photos of old London in the 1940s as well as other demolished sites and combined several images into one background using Photoshop. Of course as I'm doing a slightly stylized version of London, I've decided that a matte painting that's too photorealistic should be toned down so I made it look a bit more like a painting.

Original combined image of the matte painting for the street scenes.

Altered image of matte painting, did some paintbrush work and added a faded Gaussian Blur effect to make look more like a painting.

A few more matte paintings are in progress, will add them later on.

Rendering

Once again, I have used the render-farm in order to process all the images of my shots in a short amount of time. Have faced some difficulties and setbacks due to congestion and other people waiting to use the render farm for their projects but will get the rest rendered before the deadline.

Submitted the Maya jobs to the render-farm via Qube. Had to upload all folders of files necessary to render the shots as there has been some blank shots and missing files that were vitally assigned to different material assets for the scenes.

 Original rendered image of shot involving little girl looking up off-screen.

Altered image after making tone and level changes in Photoshop.

There is more, will be added later when scenes are done.