January 25, 2013 : Work Flow For New Short
Animation began recently for the new short. Keeping up the theme of not revealing too much, I decided to just show a screen grab of the work flow in Lightwave for one of the sequences. Of course, I made sure only one character was in the shot:
In the past, I predominantly worked each stage of the process in blocks – I did all the modeling at once, then I animated everything, then rendered the files, then added post effects, then wrote the music, etc. This time around, I wanted to have better continuity between the steps so they are all progressing together. Some modeling still needs to happen, but I have also started writing and recording music. Ultimately, animation is the bulk of the work that needs to get done. So the goal is to ensure nothing slows down (or prevents) that part of production.
I think the end result will be a better short – not only because I think each step will be better in tune with one another, but it will prevent me from getting burned out doing one part of the process. Whenever that happens, there’s always the risk of the quality suffering.
posted by Pi Visuals at 4:59 pm
Tags: Robotical