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January 5, 2010
Work on En Route Continues
As you may know, my life for the past four months has been consumed by Project Durian, which has been an amazing experience so far. However, I was fortunate to be able to spend the holidays at home, and over the past couple weeks I’ve been trying to get some work done on my film En Route. Things are coming along nicely!
As we’ve known from the beginning, the visual effects workload is pretty intense, and we’ve allowed our vfx team to set the pace for postproduction. I’m extremely excited by the work they’ve done so far, and plans are currently in place to bring this film across the finish line in late March!
I’ve only bit off a few shots to handle myself, but I thought I would post a tidbit about what I’ve been working on the past couple weeks.
There is a scene in the movie that involves a CG toy plane. Here’s a glimpse of the final shot of that sequence:
Doesn’t look real yet, but I’ll keep working. I also worked on a shot from a scene at a science fair. My actor was supposed to play a character at multiple ages, but for this scene he was supposed to look twelve or thirteen. On set we I had him stand on his knees, to make him look shorter… but it didn’t look quite right. In After Effects I tried fooling with his on-screen proportions to make the shot more convincing:
What do you think?
Anyway, I’m really holding out on you — these are just random shots that I’ve spent a bit of time on. There are a lot more ‘newsworthy’ shots being done by the vfx team… but they may not see the light of day till the premiere!
For now, I’m back in Amsterdam to redirecting my focus on “Sintel”. Full-on production is gonna be a long haul, but who said animation was easy?
–Colin
wow! that arm-shrinkage is sick! I would never imagine such a small change would make it look so much younger, very nice and informative! keep these tricks coming!
Thanks for sharing!
The arm shrink definitely helps! The hand has a weird thing goin’ on, can’t think of what it’s called. Clipping? Towards the end of the clip it looks like it’s being erased.
The proportions do look good though.
The CG toy plane looks really good for a work-in-progress in the last composite.
Also, I really like the music in the shrinkage clip. Is it a temp score or do you plan on using that piece in the film?
Lookin’ forward to this Colin! =)
Hi Colin,
this is Andreas from the advanced blender course in Amsterdam. Just wanted to say that this looks really good so far. The Arm Shrink is a great idea.
Looking forward for the finished Movie! Same goes for Durian.
I wish you good luck!
greetings from germany
I’ve gotta say, the arm shrink intrigues me. I am experienced in blender, but relatively new to cg in recorded video and was wondering, what method do you use to do such a thing?
That’s pretty cool. Just stumbled on ya from “Pleasure for the Empire”. I’d buy that he’s a kid there. (like 14)