Night Fever

Just found this image... Classic.... Our guy exiting the night club....what a legend. ... we were experimenting with lighting to see which one was messing up our render....we couldnt pin point it however we had a chuckle at this shot ;).... I believe I or Alec said "ITS OK ....ITS THROUGH THE TELESCOPE!!!" so that solves EVERYTHING.... we'll see 2mr.

hope everyone else completes theres on time too :)

The Race Is ON!

It would appear that students being students, even with a (slightly tempremental) Render Farm have to leave all their work to the last day!  I'm glad to say we've managed to do most of our rendering now - even if some we are having problems with some of the Glitches going on in there is no longer time to re-re-re-re-re-render them again so we'll have to make do with what we have.  Its not hte best animation as its VERY rushed but as we are not marked on this side of the piece, and majorly on the environment I'm fairly happy with the outcome.  Tomorrow the team minus Simon as he's away in Wales will be finishing off the final renders tomorrow and choosing what makes it into the final render, with sound and with fades and transitions.  The titles I have FINALLY finished I think and hope... just waiting to check the render... Came out ok but I can't quite tweak this one thing which is REALLY annoying....but hey....It's ok...guess I'd just like it the best it CAN be....Ach! Nevermind...I'm tired...and have to get some sound FX together now.... Alec and I stayed behind and got a few more recorded sound effects for different areas using different materials... just trying out different things.  Was fun and pretending to be a pirate is always a laugh!!! HARghArrrghARGH!!!! A few Videos from it :D

  

I think we're going for the whole story as well which will be nice - I think Alec is starting to believe we can finish this which is a MAJOR bonus as he'll crack on now a lil harder - only about 2 shots left to do and we've rendered and converted most to AVI's.

I'm just so glad Alec is bringing in his Laptop with C&C Red Alert 2 on as Simon and I are rendering a lot and therefore freezing our computers and the Render Farm takes ages to que and we need to test so we're on and off 5 minutes at a time.

Its all down to the last day now.  5 o'clock hand in.... LETS DO IT!!!

Tonights Work Is Done

I've finished the Final sequence for the Titles... all I need now is the Music to add to it and away I go.. depending on what time I feel I should go to sleep tonight I might work on that in a minute... I don't want to do EVERYTHING last minute.. or do I...**CLASSIC STUDENT**!! haha

I took into consideration what Alec and Simon mentioned about making the Titles slightly better and now I'm finally happy with them myself.  Even if the sequence is going to take quite a while to get through at least it shows off some of Alecs work in a nice way as well as presenting ourselves and our project.

The Last Week of HELL

A Poem about Render

Rendering - Not Cool. Render - Not Fun. Rendering....

The End.

Yeah sums it up. We've had some major highs and lows while rendering. Last night I stayed late trying to do bits and bobs and sending things off to the farm. Unfortunately the shot I sent off wasn't any good as Jared said it was overlapping files such as two boxes consuming one area. This was not what it was at all. I checked the outliner and checked the Hypergraph. It was infact the near clip plane too near so we bumped this up a wee bit and it worked a dream. EXCELLENT news so that we don't get any funky distortion anymore.

I was looking through some of the files coming out that we HAVE rendered and while exporting as AVI's I found that they were very laggy. Alec says it is due to the FPS I'm rendering at. I have just changed it to 24fps from 30 and it worked a dream.

The images that we are getting out are encouraging however I hope our animation we are doing looks good too.

Been Working On The Title Sequence/Ending

Not entirly sure what this is going to be... what I've been working on tonight.  I'm not going to upload it onto here as I don't want to spoil the supprise but believe me... its looking quite nice :)  The title sequence is what I thought it would be for however its Very long... it'll be about a minute... for a two/three minute piece... lets see what the guys think tomorrow.  I'm very happy with the outcome.  If they decide that its not worth keeping I'll upload it... if not I'll keep working on it.  So far I've done Tom and Alecs Titles, Simons, Mine and TEAM AUTHENTIC to do!!!!

Just A Taster

Me just playing around a little ... maybe a teaser for whats to come if the guys in Authentic Like it... I may get the job of the title sequences ... I have idea for them but will explain it only to Authentic Members for now... Think it has potential though :)  So much to develop within it.