PreViz first draft

How strong is youre computer...

Today we tried to do the enviroment shot "better". with that i meen we tried to use particle system to make all the buildings in the background. That was hard! All the production computers were to low on "RAM" to manage such a big task, when we tryed to duplicate one of the bigger buildings to 200. So what do you do? You turn to youre own hardware and suddenly it whent smooth as soap. So got a earlier file, but with the particle system in place.

Storyboard

This is the last version of the storyboard. As you can see the story as been changed a bit since the 3rd draft of the treatment i posted earlier. A new treatment will be posted soon.

Enviroment work

update on establishing shot in 3D. As you can see with the mountains, it gets the "closed" feeling, so you get some sort of frame around the picture, as shown in our storyboard.

Been using "scanline" render for the past weeks, but thought i should try something new after i looked on a "mental ray" tutorial page. The light looked better and the render time dropped with 1/10 of the scanline.

Sharing on the web

Today we realized that we should get more feedback from sources outside the classroom, and we made a big post on the forum Det store dyret. Here we hope to achieve comments on both what we have done, and what we are gonna do. Hopefully this will improve our end result.

People are genuine nice

For our establishing shot we are going from a city jpeg to a 3d modeled city. We found a perfect picture from the homepage of Simon Ho, a Ausie born and raised in Sydney and, as with many Australians of Chinese descent. Therefor he took a picture from the province of Guangzhou, and specific the city of zhaoqing.



The picture was copyrighted, and as a result we couldnt use it as part of our establishing shot. We desided to wright him an email and ask for use of it, hopefully we could just photshop the copyright logo away.


This is the response we got:

Sure, feel free to use my photo of Zhaoqing.
I've uploaded the full-sized version (size: 2 Mb) so that you can
download it from the folllowing address:

A better quality picture without his name on it. There are some genuine nice people in the world still.

Beggining of the end...of my city

Been working on the post-apocalyptic city for our establishing shot. Looking around for inspiration and i found it on a pay 3D page called turbosquid. Just searching on ruins and other keywords i deiscovered alot of different buildings that has seen better days.

As you can see i've tryd to get the steel structure somewhat intact as some were after the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.

Concrete and steele is all that's left. So with the basic modeling and a nice dirtmap made by a groupmember it should become the intended feeling of destruction and "silence".

Down periode

In the pasing week i felt the "hole" of the project. With that i meen that it's harder to sit down an do some work, because i've been doing the same idea over and over again. My head just want to do something else. I hoped that 3D modeling production would be satisfying for me, but with tha last 8 months of school without any "school 3D", it's much harder to start producing in high volume. 

With this slope down i tried to find some outer refrenses, to hopefully speed up my motivation, saw half of the top 250 list on imbd.com, tryed to even do more wrokout then i allready do but it didnt help. On top of all this my room mate moved out so started to try figuring how to pay my rent from next month. Thing just got bigger and bigger.

But in the end, it wasnt a guru from Nepal that made me turn around, was a team member who told me to get back up or she would kick me up there herself. That work magic and today i got a new "scene", establishing shot of a broken city paning down to a litle house, and working in 3D is almost fun again. 

So i guess without people around you to help you get going, and back you up, things would seem a lot more difficult to accomplish. 

Thanks for having my back!