This week in room 206: We went from about 20 rendered shots to almost all shots rendered in the last week. Alexis worked on finishing lots of animation and then helped with compositing. Avery rendered stuff, and also composited. Chris did a whole bunch of different things, from sound design to a bunchContinue reading
Tag: Environment
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Team Journal Week 07
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Avery Brown Week 07 Journal
0For the previous two weeks, I focused on rendering and comping things. I also figured out a way around our Nuke licensing problem, which is rendering through the command line. This Week Hours Breakdown: Compositing – 14:00 Adviser Meeting – 1:00 Group Meetings (Dallies) – 1:30 Technical Directing – 19:00 Render Farm work –Continue reading
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Avery Brown Week 05 Journal
0Lots of rendering this week, lots of rendering… I was able to knock out several shots throughout the movie, though mostly in scene 01. Rendering all the time is a drag (and also leaves a lot of downtime while the computers chew on things), so I took some time and did some nice modelsContinue reading
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Avery Brown Week 04 Journal
0Spending most of this week trying to deal with the farm, I feel like I have made significant progress towards making it work a little bit. On Friday, I met with Rob Dlugos from IT, and he has made several fixes to the farm already. The frequent network drops have been the bane of this projectContinue reading
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Avery Brown Week 03 Journal
0I spent this week getting things ready for rendering. The reactor room is pretty much complete. Here is a shot that has been rendered and then comped inside it: There are some minor adjustments left to do (such as increasing the reflectivity on his goggles), but this is close to complete. I completed theContinue reading
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Avery Brown Week 01 Journal
0At the beginning of this week, I resumed work on the lettuce XGen Script. It is now highly functional and has a user interface. It doesn’t do everything that I wanted, but it does enough to satisfy the needs of the team. Because of the nature of Maya and XGen, I made sure to implementContinue reading
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Avery Brown Week 09 Journal
2Last week was spent assembling, rendering and compositing. The assembly process started out very inefficient and significantly improved by the end. Still, it was rife with mistakes and we had to double render over half of the shots that we completed. The reactor chamber was very much not ready to be rendered and needs significant optimization.Continue reading
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Avery Brown Week 08 Journal
0Avery Brown, Week 08 Journal If Walt Disney rose from the grave, I would hope that the very first thing he would do is apologize for XGen. Maybe Autodesk bungled it when they ported it to the public release, maybe Disney just works in a way that is conducive to the way Xgen works. Whatever the case,Continue reading
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Avery Brown Week 06 Journal
0Avery Brown, Week 06 Journal This week was not as successful as previous weeks. I only beat my hours goal by a hair. I spent a lot of time doing scene set up in Maya, which is necessary, but not rewarding. I feel like I have a million things left to do, and more onlyContinue reading
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Avery Brown Week 05 Journal
0Avery Brown, Week 05 Journal A big chunk of my time this week ended up being used to prepare for the presentation, including a very long day on Monday. Saturday evening, I took some time to research substance designer and I am now going to attempt some tests over the coming week to test its viabilityContinue reading
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Avery Brown Week 03 Journal
0Avery Brown, Week 03 Journal This week was not as good as I had hoped for. I did not work as many hours as I planned because of the holiday on Monday. The snow was nice, but it resulted in me not working on Saturday. I still worked out a bunch of issues on theContinue reading
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Avery Brown Week 02 Journal
0Avery Brown, Week 02 Journal This week has been an excellent work week for me. I have been making several large pushes on the environment model. Specifically on the hallway sections. Last week, I had roughed out the hallways to Chris’s specifications, but this week I stepped it up. The boring cross-section for the main doorContinue reading
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Avery Brown Week 01 Journal
0Avery Brown, Week 01 Journal This week has, so far, been a pretty good start to the quarter. I feel better about this project already, and my week was spent logging an amount of hours that I have not logged yet ever. Without Fernsler’s class, I have a massive amount of time and energy now. Continue reading