Day 15 -- 27/6/2011 Monday

I guess everybody was exhausted from the long yesterday. Today continued like any other ordinary Monday. We went to work early and reach SESI about 9:10am. I began by looking at reference regarding Liberty Island. I wanted to check out the surrounding environment like how small was that island, how calm was the water around it. All this research was to cater to one of my shot which I may include in. I am trying to mimic the ups and downs of water wave around the island. I got a wave generator from Houdini exchange. Although it was easy to use, I decided to do it myself from scratch. I dive into the otl and see how they do it. The rest of the steps are easy with just using boxes to copy on every points on the grid.

Using expression in point sop:

Playing with scale of box, to test if more boxes give greater details on the movement of wave.

Test Renders
Normal Size Boxes -- http://vimeo.com/25686336

Normal Box Wave from Tanner Caelum on Vimeo.

Smaller Size Boxes -- http://vimeo.com/25686378

Smaller Boxes from Tanner Caelum on Vimeo.

More smaller size boxes -- http://vimeo.com/25701207

More Smaller Boxes from Tanner Caelum on Vimeo.

I also went to polish my other shot. The shot has a camera that goes around the object in a upwards spiral movement. To do that, I need a helix-shaped curve or line then used it as a path object for the camera. However, I struggled a for awhile at this point and take up some time. After a while, I gave up drawing the curve and use an expression instead. It was fast and accurate. I spend some time adjusting and tweaking the animation and camera movement. It was a little tedious. While doing that, I side tracked a bit and ask Steven which number of Frames per second was better to used, 25 fps was more suitable as these will be used in demo reel and DVD and Singapore mainly uses PAL.

New shot4 -- http://vimeo.com/25701777
 

Shot 4 New S.O.L from Tanner Caelum on Vimeo.