BSA324: Skyway Robbery (Progress blog) - Chris Sutton

Oct 4 - 2D animation, The power of the blue pencil I have been working on the 2D planning for Skyway Robbery. By having the 3D in the backgound layer in a JPEG sequence, I can plan the character movement/animation using the old pencil trick. As it is just planning and won't appear in the final cut, I am more focused on getting movement and character right and being sketch is not a problem.

Oct 3 - 3D images, computer loading problems and a need for speed I have been transferring files from the render farm onto other hard drives so I have back ups and putting the EXR files through Adobe After Effects and turning them into JPEG sequences. As I mentioned yesterday, MOV files simply slow harmony down too much.  Some computers in the boom room seem to be struggling to move my EXR files around. Should try to avoid using these computers as they could stuff up my files. Time is of the essence, need to get the 2D animation done as soon as I can but I also need to get more hours on the internship. This is one hell of a juggling act.

October 2 - Files too big, better computer needed I have been mostly just putting the exr files from the render farm through Adobe After Effects to turn the files into files that harmony can use. Some of the files seem to be too big for harmony. MOVs are simple too big and lag out the computer when used in harmony. I have resorted to JPEG sequences to display the 3D models. While have to do more tests.

October 1 - More rendering Mostly just rendering today. After getting all the indoor scenes on the render farm yesterday, I spent 3 hours today doing minor fixes on outdoor scenes before putting them on the render farm. Hard to say when they will be done as the jobs seems to be moving slowly, I don't have many computers on render to and some twerps on the other end are ruining renders by turning off their Deadline slaves. I can understand it when there is a class but if people are just doing it outside class hours cause they can't be bother moving I'm going to have to start hiding angry messages in my animation.  Having more trouble organizing the final voice actress. Sara Matika is the actress who has argued to do Julia's voice for me. Problem is that both Sara and Carlos are busy people so finding time is difficult. Really kicking myself over throwing away last Tuesday thinking that I had been overbooked. This is just something I have to work around, I'll l...