What I'm up to...

Friday....
--have pretty background for final scene--may need tweaking once I see it with everything
--figured out how to subdivide everything...that took forever....
--Textured tree
--have flowers glow a little--i want daff to be more blue--fix that
--bells pop more--need to do slight texture on base
--finalized first 100 frames worth of animation...right...



Tomorrow's goal
--get over half of animation finalized
--fix shree
--fix flower textures and Mary textures.
--get lighting for first opening shot (further away, need dif lighting)
--get lighting for ending shot (at least rough)
--specular eyes..

My List of Doom

My to do List!!!


LIGHT and TEXTURES
--Darken second step edge
--Put ramp color for background--may change to painted scene if time
--Glowy flowers to make them pop
--fix edge of path to grass--too dark!
--finish making certain lights only for certain objects...still need to make a light for just Mary!
--specular mary's eyes
--make freckles on mary's face more apparent--still too light!
--check grass bump--giving weird line(not too vital--I think it might show for only a second in one shot)
--still need to add a bit of texture to tree (only briefly in two scenes--and from far away, so doesn't need to be super detailed)


--Still need to do lighting for last scene...mainly it deals with silhouettes and rims, so shouldn't be as difficult as dealing with shadow placement
--Paint last scene--shouldn't take too long =)
--make shree's glow to make em pop from background



Animation
--I still want to go back and fix Mary picking up the shree---DO THIS EXTREMELY SOON! LIKE NEXT! Then I can go ahead and render out ambient occlusion pass if animation isn't going to change
--also--its better, but still need to tweak Shree's blendshape where he grabs flower--still intercepting geometry--again, if gonna do it, do it soon!


Music
....yah...listen to the game "The Path" music--I like the cheerful, yet sometimes creepy quality--interjecting words and music--thinking of recording myself saying the rhyme, then messing with it a whole lot and finding some simple tune and overlaying the two--maybe even combining my made up rhyme...
--I want shree's screech to be musical in quality--like the violin screaming sounding.

Lighting and Textures!

ROUGH lighting

---shree to have a little longer shadow.
--Figure out how to exclude objects from behing lit! then I'll do ambient light to mimic bounced color
--Need to add rim lights!
--mary's arm needs more shadow cast on the throne.
--start experimenting with changing shadow colors



Not lighting stuff:
--finish adding textures...I have them ready, just not added ^^;;
--fix ground--not showing as much color as I want.
--make steps a slightly diff color then throne--to make throne pop more.

2nd attempt at daylight..and not some snow looking scene....

Garden References

"Balloon Farm"

This is actually the favorite of the two images--with the warm colors really accentuated. There are better examples in the book itself >< but I could only find this image online, and don't actually own the book myself...

Lighting Key

For the first several scenes I want a bright and cheery outdoorsy lighting, making it seem like midday




Once Mary starts noticing the shrees around her, and especially in that final close up to this shot, I want a very dramatic lighting change, with yellow and marry in silhouette.

color images test