The VFX for "Just Add Water" is finished. And 4 days early!!!! The last 4 years working on projects with Paul, it's usually been an exhausting task trying to get things looking good and done right up until the absolute final deadline (with deadline extensions). But this year I've been able to finish all my FX 4 days before the first deadline! I also believe that Jason is also like 99% done with his music and scoring, and Paul just has to do coloring and tweaking in the edit which looks to be all done by Saturday.
Albeit, they have had a couple all-nighters with editing and sound, but I've managed to keep my sleep schedule intact and pace myself. Plus it didn't hurt that, overall, the FX wasn't that hard (or maybe I'm just getting better?)... maybe.... Well, there was no green screen, 3 small FX sequences, 1 moderate FX scene, and the end credits. Yep, it was definitely easier. But this was my first film compositing 3D animation over live film, so this was really depended on accurate motion tracking which was tricky in R&D, but I was able to pull it off in production.
I really like the concept of this film, more so cause I really like fooling the audience and going for the unexpected. The first half of this film gives the impression of a low-budget, just-another-short-film, nothing special. But the last half gradually leads up to what is, hopefully, a shocker that the audience won't be expecting. In R&D before production I also tackled my first character animation, but sadly was not able to use it for the film. Instead I did what Pixar usually does, and added in the character animation during the credits.
In other news, I recently filmed 3 interviews at Fusion Studios and I developed a motion graphics template for introducing the music artist being filmed. The interviews are all done, they just need to be rendered and delivered which I will be able to do this weekend.
We are also putting together a group to enter the 72 hour Windie City Shootout in Chicago next month. So, that will definitely be fun to work on, plus it will be the first time I've worked with this group since "Orbit Control" which was a nice production.
Well, two more productions down, one coming up next month, I just may be able to startup my "Tron: Defiance" short film again in the next week or so!
Here's the Fusion interview template I designed:
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