Agnes Lighting Nic's 1st pass

My first pass at lighting for Agnes based off of Anthony's post.  Any feedback?

Thank you!

Hey guys I hope you are all having a good break. I just wanted to take the chance and really thank Anthony and Nick for their work with the story and refining it! Also I really wanted to say thank you to Anthony for the lighting files and for everything he had done for our project. I personally really appreciate all the work you did with the modeling and setting up the new scenes! Thank you!

And a big thank you so the entire group for all our hard work we have done so far! Everything is looking awesome! Lets keep it up and make this next shot even better!

Files now on server

I uploaded the new desert environment and lighting file for agnes to the server. You can find them under Ulta team, project_files. The desert file image planes and lighting will be tweaked towards the end of the semester but the sand dune geometry will remain the same so we can start blocking out our shots. I included a placeholder geometry of where our two characters will stand the red cylinder is Sam (the one holding the briefcase) and the green cylinder is for Joy (the female char)


Here are a couple test shots of our environment

Desert Boards preliminary

Here are the desert boards.  I'm going to make a few changes and add A-B shots where necessary, but before that I'd like to give you all a chance to weigh in.  Will this work?  Are there any changes that should be made?

So what are my odds?

Not good.

You mean, not good as in one in 100?

More like... One in a million....

so... you're saying I have a chance...

Agnes_lighting

I have a file with a simple basic set up of the 3 main lights I used, you will however have to tweak these to get your shot lit correctly as well as possibly add another light to get the character and bg to look good.




This is the base light set up I am using




Basically make sure you try to have the key hitting the right side of her face (warm color) and the fill (cool color) hitting mostly the left side and the rim to create a nice edge against the darkness.


In the file the fill light is the one that is going to require the most tweaking, it has a decay attached to it that will require tweaking both of the position of the light and of the intensity as well as some adjustments with the cone angle. Try to avoid this.



Here the fill is too grainy and looks bad when rendered, you will have to adjust or ad a second fill so it looks more like this



Make sure the rim light is angled towards her back, you will have to rotate the angle horizontally to create a bigger or smaller key. If you have any questions or need help let me know.

Ok so after brainstorming and discussing with Nic we both came up with a simpler idea that I think will make for an even better scene.


The setting will now be in the middle of the Sahara desert on top of some sand dunes. Trekking though the desert and finally coming to a rest for a moment we see our two characters in the middle of a confrontation. They were traveling by an Off-road vehicle but after the radiator blew out hours ago they became stranded and were forced to walk through the desert on foot. Joy (the woman character) made sure to grab her gun and Sam (male character) took his briefcase filled with important documents.

The women character Joy is holding a gun to a man who she has kidnapped. Although she doesn't really have the guts to use the gun she would never EVER let Sam (the man she kidnapped) know this. She takes herself very seriously and thinks she is someone who isn't to be messed with. Sam has information she needs and she intends to turn Sam in to the people she works for so she can collect her reward. (which is all she really cares about)


Sam on the other hand thinks she is full of crap, although he may be in danger he doesn't really take her too seriously because he thinks he will eventually get away. Sam has knowledge that he knows she needs and as long as he is the only one with the information he knows he is relatively safe. Sam doesn't really think she would actually kill him although he remains somewhat unsure because her behavior has been somewhat erratic. The last line "so your telling me there is a chance" is meant as a somewhat sarcastic remark, something sort of han soloish.



This is a preview of the setting, there will be some dunes in the foreground for the character to stand on for the scene to take place.










Here is the character with the briefcase I modeled




The male character is done as well as the briefcase the set will be ready as soon as Nic finishes the boards tomorrow

Let me know what you guys think

Ok so for our next shot instead of the post apocalyptic landscape which may be hard to cut correctly Im proposing maybe changing the setting to a a desert island, this is a quick test of what It will roughly be like. The ocean is an animated maya ocean (which can be tweaked) and the palm trees I found are animatible. For the reverse shot to this could also be an image plane of dense tropical vegetation. The lightning it a mental ray physical sun and sky. The story I think would be almost the same except instead of referring to a harsh desert landscape or ruined city he is referring to the ocean.


Let me know what you guys think of this idea or any suggestions

Meet up

Hey guys lets find a time where we can meet up and get the lightning/rendering setup for our next shot as well as finalize camera placements etc for our next one, im free anytime this week up till Thursday when im going out of town for a few days

Warrior Storyboard

Story_board

Was wondering if the new story board can be posted

Kuan's Shoot updated

I spent more time in the first small section of the shoot and trying to get the lips shape with dialogue match and the eyebrows. I also made some change from everyone's commands but please let me know if that works or I still need to tone it down more.

Thank you!!

Can't make it to class today

I won't be able to make it to class today. I have a stomach upset since last night. I will upload my shoot to the blog later before 8:45am.

Blocking with Bits

Hi Everyone,

I have been working the bits for fast almost almost three hours and I also keep changing postion and key frames around. So, I decided to upload it up here to get some feedback for the dialogue bits and I will add lips later.

Thanks,

Kuan