Day 47 -- 29/7/2011 Friday

Knowing what to do after Steven's reviewing session yesterday, I started to test out different ways of grouping the points of an object. Using a sort node, the order of points can be change. Telling it to point sort by Y and should get a horizontal grouping. I also tried using bounding volume to group points, being procedural in a way, tried different ways of doing like merging bounding objects, working in different branches, various ways but could not work. I was stuck at it for quite awhile. Steven then sent me an example to see and understand how it works.

Using horizontal grouping, the result was kind of nicer and its getting to the concept of mine. Its more like stacking up rather than my previous test, looks like a reverse motion of peeling a banana. Heres a test;

Hori_Grping from Tanner Caelum on Vimeo.

Okay, next, I went to work on camera angles. Based on my production schedule, I had to finalize the camera angle and the flow of the shots by early next week. Doing shot 1 was abit tough as I had to rethink of a better angle, having being viewed by Aliza, seems like she had some comments. That took me quite awhile.

Next was shot 2 and 3, although I copied the camera sop from the previs, thought that will make my life simpler but the whole thing was messed up. Got to re-do and tried getting the same result but took quite long. The keyframes was frustrating, keeping getting weird and stupid results. Almost at the end, I kind of thought of a new idea that may be the key to my answer. It can link all the shots together and might just work right. Here's the 3 shot I had done for today;

First Half from Tanner Caelum on Vimeo.