Film Handed in for Deadline...

Here is my final film, I am not entirely happy with it as it has a few issues. These are the shadows and some rough edges. The shadows is the subject I really want to get in there and fix as it is something I worked hard over, as shadows can make something look more real. Hopefully I will fix them for our degree show. But for now...enjoy. 

Concepts and Renders side by side....

I thought it would be a good idea to see how close the end result of my film was to the concepts. The lay out of the set is extremely similar, except for the curtains on the ward, which have been shut rather then left open, and a few objects at a slightly different angle. Also the finished look is a lot darker then the concepts.

Music For The Film...

Originally I had the idea of using Twinkle Twinkle Little Star as my piece of music, but I was unable to get a hold of it online. So I started searching for some different music, along the lines of Christmas. Jenn found a website that let you use there music for Royalty Free, http://www.incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/. I managed to find alot of Christmas tracks that could go with my film. Heres a list of what I found;

1, Angels We Have

2, Jingle Bells (Calm)

3, Oh Holy night

4, Silent Night

5, What Child Is This



My final choices were between Silent night and What Child Is This, as they seemed to fit alot better then the others.

Silent Night...

 

What Child Is This...

 In the end I decided to go with What Child Is This, as it's a little different and not as popular as Silent Night.

Helping Jo Out With After Effects...

As Jo had never really used After Effects before, she asked me for some help on putting her film together. As Jo has got an extension after being ill, I will be helping her to put the rest of her film together if she needs it.

Renders For The Finished Film...

I am not overall happy with the resulting renders for my film. I should of got some nice shadows on the curtains and elsewhere on the set, but for some reason, the shadows disappeared on the final batch render. I know they were there before hand, as I took the first render below,

The two next images are of the final renders, we can see that there is no shadow on the curtain and there is a strange shadow appearing on the far wall. I'm not sure if this is as a result of the file not rendering the week before, and possibly still having problems with Mental Ray as a result.

I had hoped to fix the shadow problem by adding a shadow pass, and as I have never done one before, I had to learn how very quickly. It was very simple to do, once I knew how, but for some reason all that was rendering out was a black picture. So I asked Matt to take a look to see if knew why. He managed to fix it by pressing a button which I had missed out. The image below is the result:

Below is the result of multiplying the shadow pass over the colour pass, I think it works well as a test, and I was planning on doing a shadow pass for my last scene, but when I started the batch render, the shadow pass stopped working again, the reason why, I am not sure. Though, for my future re-render of some of my scenes, I will try to use a shadow pass, as I am more likely to get the shadows I want, and that work with the set using Depth Map Shadows.

Compositing For Laura...

As I was able to get my project to finally render, I was able to help laura out with the transitions between each of the scenes, like we had planned a long time ago. Laura left it up to me as to which transitions to have between each shot, and she was happy with everyone of them. Here is the result of my work...

Nurse Desk Lighting...

Here I have used a spot light in front of the computer as well as a spotlight in the lamp. The first image is far to dark, and still needs a lot of tweaking as the fairy lights are not lighting up round the notice board and we miss out on some of the detail. This next image is alot brighter and softer, with some nice shadows.

I hope to include the desk I the end scene. Though it will be a shame to cut it off the film, most of it may have to be to get a better end finish to the composition in the camera.