End!

I forgot that I need to re render the shadow after changing the fence's position, after that I re rendered, did the final composite of the shot 03. With the help of Mr Sankar, I've learnt a new node, light wrap that blends the character into the scene. Did a little of color correction, then I proceeded to final render and effects breakdown. Compiling all videos together, making our trailer!

Day 13

Today I tried to fix the banner again, but it failed so we decided to remove the banner. After that I rendered the AO and composite everything, its almost done!

Almost the end

Today I came back to school, composite all the shots together. Realized that the fence wasn't in the right position and had to batch render again. After batch rendering, I started on the banner animation on the fence, and now I'm still rendering the AO. This is taking very long and I hope it can be down as soon as possible!

Almost the end

I continue my roto-ing and did fog for shot 01.

Render Day 10

After a whole night of batch rendering, I came back to school and the AO is still rendering till now. I'm gonna leave it overnight again over the weekends. Other than that, I've been roto-ing again... This is almost over!

Thursday!

The robot's done today and then I've added it into the scene and then change a little of the texture as it was too reflective, play around and then arrange it nicely, changing the keyframe with the help of Arthur and Mr Sankar. After I'm done, I've started my batch render to test it.

I'm gonna let it render over night, and hope its done by tomorrow!

Day Eight

Roto, removing trackers, and waiting for Robot to be well textured is what I did today! Since I've added the CG objects and everything for shot 3, I'm left with the robot then I can batch render everything. After that, we can start adding particles to the other shots already!

Day Seven

New Look for the robot!

Today Regina and I worked on the texture for the robot to make it have a metallic feel. Since Khairul is absent today, I've decided to texture the robot first as his rigging still have slight problem and I'm sure he can fix it when he's back in school. Other than that, maybe he can remove the T pose for the Mocap together instead of rigging it in.

Re assigning textures to the robot.

After texturing, we passed the robot to Shaheed so he can use mudbox to add the scratches to the robot to make it realistic. Then we take over his roto-ing. Other than that, we did IBL for the whole shot 3 again because the first one wasn't working. That's about it today!

DAY SIX

Today I worked on the lighting of the fences again, and matching the whole fences again because the old tiff I used was undistorted but Mr Pang says it looks more distorted than the original one. So to continue fromt hat  day, I've changed the footage and then added the fences back again, adjusted the lights.

And finally I got a better shadow after trying.

When I was done with this, I wanted to add the robot in already, but when I check the robot file(with mocap) that Khairul finished, I saw that the robot arms are actually going inwards to his body, so I told him that and there's a problem and he's fixing it now. Other than that, I wanted to texture the robot, but if I texture from the different file of the rigged robot, I'll have trouble combining both of them.

END OF FIRST WEEK

In the morning when I came, I started tracking the first shot, and matched the perspective. Since the well isn't done yet so we didn't put the CG object yet. After lunch, I came back and work on the third shot, to match the perspective and then added set extension of fences while waiting for Khairul to rig the robots, add weights to the shoulder and he is left with the fingers.

Fences all over the field.

Added and adjusted the lights and shadow.

That's about it today! Its quite productive! In fact is very productive compared to other days!

Day 4

Today we started shooting earlier about 1, just in case the sun goes off again, and thank god we did film earlier as it poured after that... We got all three shots done, and we're gonna track all the videos first and then insert the CG objects.

Later at night, we actually did Motion Capture for our robot character with the help of Daniel and Mr Leong. Hopefully the action its the same and fits the robot rig well.

After today, if all the footages are fine, we are able to proceed to another step! :)

DAY 3

TODAY WE REFILMED BECAUSE THE MATCHMOVER DOESN'T WORK AS WELL. But it rained, so we couldn't do much. Yeah that's about it, what a bad day cause of the rain :(

Second Day!!!!!

Today we started to film, but unfortunately we don't have enough time to film finish all three shot. We only manage to film the second shot, which is done successfully and we're matchmoving it in Matchmover, trying to put into the reference object to match the perspective.

Very productive day although the day was kinda wasted as we were waiting for the right timing.. Anyway tomorrow we'll film the First and Third shot and on thursday we'll try mocap for our shadow action of robot!

First day!

We went to walk around school to see where we can shoot for our different shot. That's about it. And we will start filming tomorrow! YAY!