Render Test Break

So I'm playing around with looks at the moment- taking a break from the keying mayhem of december and january. I swear, everytime you wanna do something in 3D you gotta learn a lot of shit. Especially if you havn't got a million euro rendering farm, you also gotta learn the tricks.

i've been planning to avoid all this hastle by rendering the characters 'toon style but i'm really getting into what radiosity and global illumination (calculates what happens to the photons as they bounce around a room from a light source illuminating a scene realistically).

can
do.

but who knows. i guess i got another few days of experimenting before i have to pin down a direction.

Oho, the serious amount of misinterpretation of film contracts that goes on...

We don't get anymore funds until the film is at a FINAL roughtcut stage- that means all the animation finished and rendered and composited!!! Thats 50% of the funding. I guess the film board assumes that the companies awarded this scheme have working capital. I however do not.
Luckily our bank is offering us a temporary overdraft so we can pay ourselves our meal tickets in the final couple of months of work.

i made myself sick this week. had to take yesterday off. i went for a walk and admired the sea for a while: "nature is a bitch of a renderer"(foaf)