This week I finished lighting and rendering, and edited the video.
Regarding the rendering, we used Deadline, the school’s render farm, which helped a lot and it took about three days to complete the rendering.
Summary
During the production process, we face many difficulties but we solved them by trying and supporting each other. For example, acting out animation references and adjusting the animation to them, and how to use movement patterns to make the character’s movements look more natural, as well as how to light the character (a flat light on the front gives the character a circle of light in the eyes to make them look more alive).
I also enjoyed designing the ship and building it. I have designed similar sci-fi scenes and vehicles before, but this was the first time I had the opportunity to do it in 3D, and I had a lot of challenges in the process, for example, there were a lot of mechanical parts on the ship that needed to be put together tightly, and it was a challenge to adjust the edges of the different objects to fit together properly. Last semester’s mechanical modelling course helped me a lot.There are many ways in which an effect can be achieved in modelling.
In group work, we all had different problems and we helped each other solve them, Jiaruo and Tang helped me when we were stuck, we analysed the subplots together, recorded the performance video and once a week we had a meeting to check each other’s work and give comments and feedback.
This is my production process which in the order of my workflow.