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The Process Diary|3 Steps forward... Episode
There are some setbacks, but at the same time, some leaps forward. This week, I want to take pause and review what I've just attempted and the results of what's gone on this past fortnight.The biggest hurdle I thought I had leaped was completing the vocal recordings.I'm not there yet. Personally, the quality is not that good when compared to what I've received from the actors in the US. So I am taking stock, regrouping, and I will be doing it again. I guess this is the advantage of having a personal project: I have the time to do-over anything that is not to my liking. Know that in paid projects you have two choices in this situation: either offer the client a freebie and eat the cost yourself to correct your mistake, or go with the lesser quality version.There is a saying I despise, most likely because I end up at the sharp end of the stick in the situations to which it refers: WE'LL FIX IT IN POST.This is putting too much faith in tool-sets, filters and compressors which exist nowadays, when a whole lot of work could be avoided by just getting the best possible raw media. It is largely why I am doing the recordings again. Sure, I could compress the bejesus out of the files, run filters up the wazoo to scrub out all the ambiance, then up the bass and... well you get the idea - but WHY? I have the opportunity to get it in one, and not waste those late nights on correcting my mistake because of laziness on the day. I could use that time instead to complete my storyboards and begin cutting the animatic. I could spend that time modelling and learning about texturing 9the next big hurdle I face).So I am back to the drawing board, partly on that one. It shall be rescheduled in separate passes, as not all the actors are available at the same times.Secondly - I did lose most of my 3D models due to a failure to back up my thumb-drive which housed my project. This means I will be remodeling: Market, the Navigation Tower, the Cockpit, and the Cargo Bay. By some stroke of luck, the Sand-boat had been backed up in another older on my external hard drive at home, so I managed to salvage that.I now have this project backed up in three other places, and each night when I make a revision, I save that file to the thumb-drive and the back ups.On the plus side: I drafted new concept sketches for the two Sand-boats and two characters which will be replicated often. Here are the sketches below:I've also modeled the Young Dirigible. Here is a render:My new schedule reflects these set-backs, and it looks like the next task is to complete concepts on props. In the meantime, I will be story boarding right through until the deadline for that. I am already doubting some of my shot sizes, but I want to press ahead and go back and edit when the whole thing is done. I figure that's the best way to complete the task at hand. Perhaps I need a couple of weeks of "clean up" to go back and address holes and mistakes to the storyboards and designs, before I go full-pelt into modeling, texturing and rigging.That's all from me this week. Next week is a bit up-in-the air as I have some work commitments that will make production time a little scarce, but I shall endeavor to showcase whatever work gets accomplished between now and then. Download Lo Fi Subscribe to iTunes Feed
[ Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:29:38 -0500 ]
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