Online Version

As usual, here is the online version of the final.



mpeg2 rocks

AE and premiere, it's done!

I rendered out the project in two versions, quicktime(600mb) and mpeg2(20mb) because after I did the quicktime, I realised 600mb....40 second clip... doesn't really match up, it would run properly if you drag it onto your local desktop. But, mpeg2 does a good job too, it didn't seems to lose much quality as far as i can see. Anyway, both are on the CD. Have a nice Easter.



there are mainly 3 layers composed in After Effect:
the foreground which includes everything animated: buildling, grass, robot and spaceship.

the background: buildings behind ravensbourne.
the moon and star: that's just a still image.
*this two were needed camera tracking in AE.


Sound has been done in Adobe Premiere. I found some transformer's sound effect on youtube, I downloaded the audio through... listentoyoutube.com as well as the airplane's sound effect.
The music is from Transformers the movie's Soundtrack ('Scorponok')

Rendering finished

Just got a automatic message sent me 'Job: 982 - complete'

That means everything is done.
During the weekend I used the playblast to worked out the timing for the sound effect and music. All I need to do Monday is to replace the playblast and render out the video from premiere.

Rendering

I've left one machine to render over night yesterday. It rendered out about 200 frames. I've also set up the render farm to render the whole sequence. But sadly, this morning I found there was no texturing on the buildings. It was some setting problem of the texture's location. I fixed that and did another render farm. By the time I checked it this morning the render farm finished all the frame needed. So hopefully it could finish soon....This time I checked it, the tiff file looks OK.

a blast

spaceship/robot texturing/lighting...

Just as what I've planed, I did not UV map the spaceship at all because I knew it would be dark. It has been done by using lighting and some material settings (transparency, glow etc). Worked out fine.

OMG

This single frame took 5 min to render


THIS is a 10-minute frame

without the ground as I've turned them off to increase render speed.

With the ground, I can imagine it would probably take 15min/frame.

This is a serious problem, espacilly when i'm still in the development stage. I did put the project into layers. 7 layers it has... but still
I had to reduce the explosion effect, as that's what i think ate most of the memory.(and the grass ofc)

about the finally rendering...hmm,I don't know, we have render farm! maybe it would render it them out in sec.