new tree design

Hey guys, hows it going. Just keeping you all in the loop. The render time for the trees is incredible almost 6 minutes a frame and that's without lighting. needless to say with the time we have left we can't be getting bogged down waiting for trees to render. lucky for me the film is already stylized which means I can do whatever I want to make the trees 'more artistic' which I've done. the trees are now flat planes, and we're using displacement maps. and I love them. But I'm ment to say that, the render time however is now 23 seconds! however it doesn't matter about my opinion its yours that matters let us know!!!!

Hedgehogs

We are ready to animate! Rudy and Me have set to the task of setting up the cameras for each scene. I finished The cameras for the caravan site last night and having some extra time I thought it would be fun to build a hedgehog. I've been doodling him at work over the last couple of weeks. The model was easy enough to build but creating the fur wasn't so easy, the result being lots of research and tests! but I got the knack in the end. Think I might stick him in the film. Maybe a good way to introduce the title sequence with this little guy running past the screen wiping the title on.
Oh and some more good news we've also booked our tickets to travel down to London in mid March. Our plan to force ourselves on the industries finest. fingers crossed we'll stick up the first test next week!!!

the final caravan site

its finished! the box represents where a statue of the king is going and I've got the lighting to sort out bu the texturing/ positioning/ is done, we can now animate in the scene! wwnt with these types of trees because it saves over 3 minutes in render times and I personally prefer them!!!!

Tada

 

Hey Everybody, Sorry I haven't spoke in a couple of weeks it's been hectic at Uni. My life has still been one large texture. I've been texturing the Caravan and it's looking awesome. Rudy has been making blenn shapes and rigging. It's a struggle but we're getting on with it. On darker news my laptop went a metephorical super nova. so I've been stuck in the dark wonderful Maya suites. We had a visit from a couple of guys from The Mill. A very large VSF firm in London. Tom and Sid who are very experienced, sound guys. They gave us their opinions and advice about the film and where its heading so to them. Thankyou. As for the camp site we rushed to get it done to show them something finished, the ground is to be textured and the leaves varied as well as bringing in the transparency so they actually look like leaves. Apart from that its looking awesome. But my opinion counts for nout tell me what you think!!!