DESIGN FOR LIFE

Updating Final Cut After all the composited scenes were finished, I included them in the final cut. This was the first time seeing all...

Rendering Once I was happy with everything I used redshift to render and included some AOVs that might be useful in compositing such as...

Scarf Simulation We planned on simulating our head scarf to further establish our bear in a realistic setting. My partner, Emily,...

Houdini Scene Set Up Since we were finally able to get the fur simulation looking right, we began to set up our Houdini scenes. The...

Unreal Engine Grass I was responsible for making the grass in our UE Scene. We wanted a very painterly look so my initial approach was to...

Blend Shapes Once Emily finished rigging our bear we were able to animate. She made most of the bears facial expression using blend...

Unreal Engine Pond In our UE scene we have a small pond which I was responsible for making. I started by placing the rocks I made earlier...

Tree textures I started with making some alphas for the leaf canopy by using the pen tool in Photoshop to draw a leaf shape. Then I...

Custom HDRI Maps Since the last HDRI photos I took were not great, I retook them with a tripod and at multiple exposures this time. Then...

Filming I Although we thought we had finished all our filming last semester, unfortunately one of our scenes had rolling static and the...

3D Environment assets I started making some assets for our 3D environment. I decided to start with more simple assets such as the plants...

Revisiting Bear Textures After some feedback, we were advised to add a bit more texture to our bear creature to enhance it's realistic...

Schedule To ensure that my partner and I can don't fall behind or continue to stay organised in semester 2, we made a 12 week schedule....

Continuing with Tracking/ 3D Layout/ 3D Lighting Over the semester break I continued to track all my shots, do the 3d layout and lights...

Bear Textures This week I managed to texture our bear in substance painter. My process for doing so was first laying down the base...

Sky Replacements Unfortunately I did not manage to get too much accomplished this week due to having a lot on but I started compositing...

Filming Pt.5 Since my hard drive corrupted last week, we managed to refilm all thew footage we lost this weekend. Although it was...

Filming Pt.4 This weekend we finished filming the remainder of our scenes. There were some scene which we had to refilm since some of the...

MOCAP Performance Capture - Creature To create the most natural animation for our bear creature, we agreed that motion capture would be...

Updated Script Its only natural that as we progress through our project, our script will develop and change. Therefore I updated our...