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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

A rare lull

Enjoying a lull right now.  After a hectic few days at work, and last week's crazy deadline (yes I had my first hard deadline last week!) I've been relaxing, and catching up on some Formula 1 (missed 3 races!) and Game of Thrones.

Last Sunday night (5/15), the animation project with Origin Nile was finally approved, but it had a hard deadline of Wednesday 5/18.  Only 3 days to work on it, and it was a decent sized project.  I had to create and animate a performing stage along with a crowd for the intro animatic for H.O.T.  It would also be complete with a light grid behind the stage spelling out "H.O.T." and a lone performer on stage.  The crowd and the performer had to be static sihlouettes which made it easier, and I had to create a whole bunch of stage lights.  After everything was done I think I had about 85 lights total that I had to animate.

Day 1 was creating the model for the stage.  Day 2 was creating the light fixtures, the crowd, texturizing the stage and rendering out the different passes (4 total passes) overnight.  Day 3 was compositing all the renders and lights in After Effects and preview 1 was ready and sent to the client.  Only minor changes came back later that night and I had the final uploaded to them by 11pm that same night.  Whew!

On top of that, there might be another project to add to the list.  I got an email from a company in Los Angeles who is looking for an environmentalist / compositor for an big upcoming project.  NDA has been signed so I can't talk about it now, but it's big and a little intimidating, but the guy likes my work and the first part involves Tron, so I can't go wrong! :)

Other projects are on hold or still developing right now, we'll see how the next week pans out.

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