Shot reference: shot 8

Shot 8 notes from class on Thu., 4/27

• Need to finish sets by this weekend in order to block out shots and do lighting and animation. Look for materials on pluto in the CSE490FinalProj folder.
• Animation will start by next week
• Leafs: Need shaded, detailed leaf models. Mike threw in transparent texture maps in the 490 final project folder that can be used.
• Shading: Almost done for shot 8. Waiting on models.
• Trees' waving effects
  • Looks like underwater or in heat wave
  • high-fractal version shows leaves in trees better
  • Use water wave through it?

Shot 8 notes from class on Tue., 4/25

Shot 8 was shown in class at production quality. Here are comments people made:

Leaves

• Line of leaves needs help: make it more clear and obvious
• Have some leaves fly closer to camera to show details and clarify that they are leaves
• Textures on foreground leaves.
• Hand-animate leaves in foreground.
• Have leaves falling in foreground? Can move camera down to capture leaves falling from trees. Adjust existing scripts.
• Leaves should cast shadows. Check paint effects.

Girl's turning and looking--is she turning towards the camera?

Aliasing on paint effects. Shadows on paint effects are awkward.

Flowers

• Flower color too bright
• Compositionally flowers in foreground anchoring corners

Trees:

• try soft bodies on trees, with nme contraint issues
• animate foreground trees, not background trees
• texture animation looks like it loops
• move textures through trees rather than on trees
• birch so different from evergreens that scale cues don't work
• supposed to be young forest with smaller trees. Also, this shot is not deep in the forest.

Shading:

• Ground shader is aliasing/shiny
• Darken ground shader?--issue of contrast and value on leaves

Blur map, smoother transition Can we do just on plane? Procedural map--do post-blur

Painterly effects are supposed to work with transparency

Add more ground cover and undergrowth. Render out a blank scene, make it into a flat plane with an alpha map. Get better control.

Wind:

• Wind not showing up in the grasses.
• Can apply wind with brush strokes

Girl is 1 inch = 1 unit. Let's stick with that measurement.

Soft bodies

• Soft bodies demonstrated, painting in wind.
• Make displacement maps real smooth and large.
• Use multiple maps--One map in color gain and one in different channels

Rotoscoping

• Put video stills into enviornment and mapping, with taproot as frames.
• Motion capture available
• Roto is ok w/o right camera angle just for timing and position.
• Tree motion is upward
• MEL script
• leaves closer to camera, more leaves, direction on leaves