Breakedown Comp

This images are for Composition. I learn this way by using Shake for composition of whole shots. I just want to make it more easy to control after I render them out. I am glad I learn it from teachers and classmates and friends in pretty short time. My friend Wen-Chin helped me a lot for lighting and composition. I am really appreciated her help.

Final Comp

Background

Sky

Character

Truck


Truck shadow


background depth

Real Timeline of My Project

The whole time of my project is one years and ten months. I should finish in one year but it is really hard because I want to make this animation to be excellent. So I need more time.

The rough time of whole project

Rending Whole shots

I went to school almost whole week for rendering my short. The most difficult part for me is to set up for render because I easily to make some wrong setup of render. So if I did wrong setup, I need render again that shots. It is really sad and frustrated. My plan is to use there days for whole render but it took one week. Eventually, I did all of them. Next step will comp them to next week.

Final render shot

I spend almost three weeks to test render and texture of character and also I did a lot tests for render. Finally I decide The final render style.

My adviser, Tom, give me suggestion that is to do one shot for rendering one shot for seeing the final animation. I will do next week.

First render test

Today I just got a image for whole of shot. It is really hard when you do something you are not really familiar with it. Lighting is a different thing what I thought. Lighting need cooperate with texture and shader. My shader have some problems with lighting pass in to geometry and light inside of her mouth. I need use texture to make it dark.

Shots render testing

All are for rendering test images for whole shot. I hope it will get better after my friend help me to figure out how to make it better. I will test it to next week and get good result. Now just for rough testing.

Character render testing

I select about 10 images of testing images about Chi and Doggy. I finally decided what’s kind of style I want.

Finishing two models and textures

I spent there day to modify and add texture to the truck. Finally I finish it. Good new for the next step. Ｉalso change shots have truck. I replace the old one and add subtle animation for truck to make it look realistic, not just like one box move. I hope it will help my whole animation quality.

Modify truck to a little different

Modify the truck to a little different.

I try to make a truck in my story more details and I almost finish the texture. But the most difficult part is how to make the reflection of mirror on window of the truck. I come up some idea but I still need try. The first is use texture, the second is using metal ray to render only refection and compositing the different layers.

Finish clothing simulation

I am pretty satisfied about ncloth. I spent one week studying and one week did whole clothes shots simulation. Even thorough some problems happened, I still can find a way to solve the problems. I am glad I can finished cloth simulation pretty quickly and I did finish it.

Now I am going to some texture and modify a truck model in next week. And also I need do uv map for the dog and bird. I hope I can finish one week.