Friday 14 January 2011

Conclusion

Conclusion

This project was to create a digital environment in 3d with a group. In my group was Sam, Russell, Jerome and Joe, at first i thought that we had a strong group. We started off really well but then as a group we started to have problems and finding it hard to work with each other. I got on with my work by myself and let the others do theres, but still kept in contacted to see how everything was going. I thought everything was alright and everyone had there work finished to come together and render it out. Then in the last week i found out that some people didn't finish their work because they had problems with the model. So in the last week other team members helped to work on the model to get it finished because it was the main building in our scene. The model got finished with two days or so till the deadline and it was time to render. We then discovered it was going to take a lot long to render then i had thought because i was the dealing with rendering everything out and getting the rendering settings right. We were able to get most of it rendered but some was abandoned. I feel that if we had worked better in a group our final film would have looked really good, but things don't always plan out how you want them to. I would work with this group again because we all have different skills and would produce some really nice work together but this time it just went wrong.

Wednesday 12 January 2011

lighting

When it came to the lighting the outside of my scene wit the grass, water and windmill. I was looking for a way to make it look realistic. I remembered when i was back in college and i had to do an environment and had to find way to render an outside scene. To do this i used mental rays physical sun and sky system what gives you a really good outside lighting effect and if very easy to use as well. The only downside to this was the render time. We had Maya fur to create the grass and using the mental ray renderer and its physical sun and sky it put some of our render times up to like 2o minutes a frame and some were only 5 or minutes. I think that using mental ray and its lighting system it has giving us a really nice piece of work and i am happy that i used it to render out our project even though the time was quite insane.

Friday 7 January 2011

Museum Trip


Pictures taken from trip to museum's

These are some of the photos i took while visiting the V & A and British museum. I took pictures of cogs and how things work and link together to get an idea on how to construct our windmill.