31-8-2011 & 1-9-2011 Wednesday & Thursday
for those days, me and chunwei did compositing of the shot. i batch rendered the occlusion, beauty and shadow layers for all the cg models. but for the buildings i just rendered and save a jpeg image for each layer. then i had them composited into nuke. we had to reformat all of the layers as they were of the wrong size. they were at 1280 x 720 instead of the video's size which is at 1920 x 1080. as for the shadow layers, we had to add a shuffle node. we had to batch render and change the files quite a lot of times due to changes.
-That's it for today-
29-8-2011 Monday 4:01pm
Today i got started on the turntable. I did the turntable for my spaceship and the building ChunWei modeled. i had to do the turntable for a few times as i got the dimensions wrong and they wouldn't fit into after effects for compiling. im left with the turntable for the building that i textured.
-That's it for today. Going home early due to Hari Raya eve-
26-8-2011 Friday 5:56pm
today i had my spacecraft animated and lighted. the lighting was okay except for the second building, the one further in the background. it's abit darker than the building in the real footage. i intended to add more lighting but mr pang said it could be done in Nuke, so i didnt. here's the rendered picture:
as for the sky, praveen asked me to change the sky as it was overexposed. chunwei took over that job and had it replaced with almost a same sky as in the footage.
-That's it for today-
25-8-2011 Thursday 6:05pm
After roto-ing myself out in Nuke, i had some trouble with the roto. apparently i accidentally feathered a few points of my roto and it was messed up. so i had to roto it all back. i managed to finish my roto and had to roto the sky from another clean plate as the sky from this current clean plate is over exposed. as for the spacecraft, i had it imported into a new scene as the current scene had some problems with the camera's image plane. i also downloaded another building to be composited into the scene. i had to change the texture of the new building as i had to make it look futuristic and iconic. i had the building referenced into the scene with the camera and spacecraft.
-That's it for today-
24-8-2011 Wednesday 5:58pm
Finally i finished my modelling and texturing my spacecraft yesterday. so today i had the video put in maya and had a rough reference as to where my spacecraft will be flying through. however i have some trouble after rendering it. the plane is all white. i managed to solve it by adjusting the alpha gain. so i start compositing in nuke and start roto-ing out myself.
-That's it for today-
23-8-2011 Tuesday 6:24pm
Today i changed some of the textures of my spacecraft as they don't look that nice. here are the changes to the textures. i also changed the cannon at the front as it looked stupid and plain with only one cannon in front.
From this:
To this:
I also started on my compositing the shots in nuke, as in removing the green screen. however i had trouble removing the white frame of the portable green screen and the people holding it.
-That's it for today-
22-8-2011 Monday 5:59pm
Today i chiong-ed my spacecraft. i try to complete my spacecraft model by today. i think i have completed it, i'm only left with texturing it. i've already found some of the textures that i will be using. the textures are below:
this is used for the spacecraft body
this one i used for the gates.
i used this for the canon and its details like the thing around it.
while this last one i used for the pipes holding the Motors.
this is the progress i have got so far.
from this:
to this:
-That's it for today-
19-8-2011 Friday 5:52pm
I continued to work on my spacecraft model. for today's session, i focused on putting more details like a driver's capsule and putting in edge loops at the appropriate places. such as the two gate doors on the bottom of the spacecraft. also i decided to move the engine turbines to the wings from the back. also i helped Chunwei with the UV texture unwrap.
-That's it for today-
18-8-2011 Thursday 5:42pm
today i worked on my model spacecraft. i editted some parts of my spacecraft. i wanted to make the spacecraft's front like the spacecraft in this picture:
however maya crashed twice and i had forgotten to save so i had to redo it twice. this is what i have so far for my spacecraft.
-Thats it for today-
17-8-2011 Wednesday 5:57pm
Today i was the first to reach class. I went to find somemore reference pictures of spacecrafts so that i have more ideas on what to put on the plain spacecraft model that I have already downloaded. its just a plain, simple spacecraft model that i will put more stuff on so that it would look awesome. And i filmed for my shot too. I encountered a few problems such as the lack of blue/green screens to film. I learnt how to fold the portable green screen with only 1 person.
-Thats it for today-
16-8-2011 Tuesday 4:09pm
I went to find the model for the spacecraft that I'm gonna use for my model. However the model is not of standard and i had to search for more nicer ones. I also searched for more reference pictures of spaceships that i like and will put in more parts to the spacechip model.
Here are some of the reference pictures:
-Thats it for today-
