Back and New Work Experience Project

Thought I'd update, seeing as the last time I did was just before I left for Scotland. As the title says, I'm now back from the Highlands and feeling like Julie Andrews up in the mountain, Ben Nevis XD. I'll do a separate post for what the tip was like later. Now time to get back and knuckle down. For work experience we've been assigned a new project whilst awaiting feed back from the other clients.

Work Placment Days 2-3

For the past few days I've been working on projects for Butch Auntie. I can't really say a lot for obvious reasons, however the project has given us a lot of freedom in terms of what to create. There's also a strong style for us to follow to help us work. I've also used an FTP client for the first timwe. Although not complicated to use, I'd not really ever encountered such a thing before.

Work Placement

Yesterday I got some info on what I'll be working on along with others for work placement. Looks rather exciting and I look forward to learning new aspects of After Effects. I don't know what I can say or can't just yet but I've got to create 3 pieces of work to send by Tuesday evening

Maya Tutorials 2

Gosh this tutorial made me feel sleepy. Not because it was boring but because I coudl imagine being on that island, with a warm breeze no other souds but that and the waves and birds etc XD.

Dynamics_3 from Levalin on Vimeo.

couldn't remember whether or not I'd posted this one and I can't sem to find it anywehre on my blog so I'll post it again to be on the safe side.

Normal Maps 2: Using Photoshop & Nvidia

Mental Ray: Caustics

Maya Help Needed!

Why won't it let me choose 'Fine' from the drop down list? I've followed the tutorial closely and even gone back and redone it just to make sure I didn't miss anything.

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Mental Ray: Motion Blur Methods

Mental Ray: Optimisation

First Render: 5: 12 settings unchanged
RCI 0.3 info : main bsp tree statistics:
RCI 0.3 info : max depth : 40
RCI 0.3 info : max leaf size : 191
RCI 0.3 info : average depth : 34
RCI 0.3 info : average leaf size : 7
RCI 0.3 info : leafnodes : 531104
RCI 0.3 info : bsp size (Kb) : 25648

Render 2: 5:53 settings 50 bps depth
RCI 0.3 info : max depth : 50
RCI 0.3 info : max leaf size : 66
RCI 0.3 info : average depth : 35
RCI 0.3 info : average leaf size : 7
RCI 0.3 info : leafnodes : 646803
RCI 0.3 info : bsp size (Kb) : 30337

Render 3: 5:29 Settings 45 bps depth
RCI 0.3 info : max depth : 45
RCI 0.3 info : max leaf size : 66
RCI 0.3 info : average depth : 35
RCI 0.3 info : average leaf size : 7
RCI 0.3 info : leafnodes : 632987
RCI 0.3 info : bsp size (Kb) : 29772

Render 4: 5:28 Settings 60bps depth
RCI 0.3 info : max depth : 60
RCI 0.3 info : max leaf size : 66
RCI 0.3 info : average depth : 35
RCI 0.3 info : average leaf size : 7
RCI 0.3 info : leafnodes : 648704
RCI 0.3 info : bsp size (Kb) : 30422






Final Render

Render 5: 4:36 bps 60 sample 1

The render times are high, however this is because I did this tutorial using my laptop, which isn't very powerful. Plus I hope I have done this right. Looking at what other's have put and what is said in the tutorial, I still only semi understand it.

Maya Tutorials 1

Making Of Journey to the River Sea

Making Of Journey to the River Sea

Journey to the River Sea: Demo Reel

Theatre_Demo_Reel from Levalin on Vimeo.

Final Animation

The one I had hopped to of shown in the crit. Here is my final animation

Journey_To_The_River_Sea_Finle from Levalin on Vimeo.

Painterly Effects Technical Document

Painterly Effects Technical Document

Finle Raw Footage

Journey_To_The_River_Sea_Raw_Footage from Levalin on Vimeo.

Into Premiere Pro I go :)

Effects Test

Effects_Test_1 from Levalin on Vimeo.

Untitled from Levalin on Vimeo.

They're only little snippets for testers.Rather like how both of these look. However not too sure if the second one is a little too dark. Though it feels more 'jungle' like in tone.

It's Finally Rendered!

Rough_Finle from Levalin on Vimeo.

This isn't all my footage, but I exported it out when my last few frames were still rendering. However they're all rendered now. I had to use the script Tom put up on the group blog to re render the particles. I've also emailed Pete Wallace to see if he can give me any advice on how to make the painterly effect more paint like.

Business Card 3

These are a lot better. I've used the background from my 'Making Of' and put it in the background. It feels more like me now. Soft, bright and naturalistic.

Making Of: More Pages 4