Tuesday, Jan. 24th:
After creating the breakdown for my video, and fixing some render issues with the main video, it was finally time to submit what I had. I made a lot of adjustments since the last render of my green goblin grenades. I got some notes back after some critique on my last render and made more changes to the final look. The adjustments I made to the video was the animation speed of the green goblin grenades, the path the green goblin grenades go, and I created a roto paint clean plate of my shadow clean plate for the explosion (since there shouldn't be any shadows during an explosion). Here is the final video from those changes!
When my video was finally done, my friends and I went out to get some food and sleep after the project, here are some of the photos we took:
Sunday/Monday, Jan. 29th - Jan. 30th:
This blog is written across two days just because of everything that had happened to me between those two days. On Sunday, I spent that day recording the parts of the project needed. I decided to borrow my friends camera just for that one day to record the people playing soccer as my background plate. After taking all the photos needed (the wooden cube for perspective, the gray ball for lighting, and the chrome ball for HDR), I needed to then record the soccer game for the B-roll footage that I can use as my background when I comp it back in. When I was about to record this, the game had ended at 3:45PM. I had to be at a film shoot for Visual Effects Supervision at 4PM, so my time was very tight. I decided to grab one of my friends and just play soccer infront of the camera for the time being as the video instead. After only two minutes in, someone knocks the tripod with the camera over and breaks the camera... I was away from my camera for two minutes and it now costs me a chunk of change to get it fixed. I was not happy about this at all, but I had to put it to the side to make it on set in time. From 4PM-9PM, I was on set for the Visual Effects Supervision, and came right back to work after. I made a game plan to get as much work that I could off of the SD card in the camera. From the recovered footage, the metadata in the camera was actually messed up, claiming I shot all my footage at 17mm, which I know very well I didn't. This was a bust and I had to come up with something quick to make up for this loss. My friend luckily was nice enough to help me with new ideas for the project. We eventually wrapped up our new idea together around 1AM. From this point on, this is when I started grabbing all the footage together, lining up my project to be right, and it took me all up until 5AM. I have not slept yet but I really couldn't after this was done because I had to be back on set at 6:55AM. So, I drove back home in the rain where there was barely any parking, went back inside wet, took a shower, changed clothes, ate some food, tried to relax a little, and went back on set at 6:55AM. I was on set from that time until 1:45PM. We had a little lunch inbetween this time, but I was extremely tired and wanted to go to sleep badly, but I wanted to make it to my 2PM class on time. From 2PM to 4:30PM, we had class and I tried to remember everything from it, but I was struggling. When I made it home, I went to sleep at 9PM so at least I am falling asleep at night and waking up in the morning at 7AM for my next class the next day at 8AM. This day was very rough for me, but there isn't anything I can't overcome.
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