Production Logs

Manu spent the week working on the grass fields and spacing of the overall island, which is important in those long shots (like when the tornado appears) and also detailing the edge of the washing machine drum from which the storm emerges.

In addition to a short shot of Victor smiling as the tornado begins, Hjalti continued his work on Franck receiving his timer plus moved on to a new sequence: Franck running from the storm. See all three, as well as the progression of the running shot, in the videos to the left.

Mathieu has come up with a new cliffhanger ending for Cosmos Laundromat, with new jungle footage and a laundromat credits sequence. See it first here, and then stay tuned to see how this new material develops!

Sarah has started work on a new shot this week: the piece of the intro conversation where Victor convinces Franck to give him one minute of his time.

Click the videos to the left to see new and updated animations of the "just a sheep" sequence and Franck looking up from the log as well as a look at Beorn's early work on improving continuity between the shots.

Lukas worked with Andy this week testing fur and grass simulations and fixing things. While Andy put the wind in the grass, Lukas working on adding the same effect to Franck's fur, as you can see in this video here.

Pablo has been working on the direction and strength of the lighting on sheep island. The two videos here show a before and after of this week's lighting change, but a few stills where he continues to experience, softening the now much brighter glow.

In addition to his tornado work, Andy also worked on getting Franck's hair tidy and simulating the collisions between the branch Franck pulls and the grass. Click through the videos to the left to see all of these to date.

Click the videos to the left to see the final animations for two scenes: Franck reaching the cliff and Victor introducing himself.

See how the shot of Victor giving Franck his timer evolved over the week — from blocking through lipsyncing and splining into final corrections.

Antonis has been making feature tweaks to order for the animators this week. Download his test files here to play with them yourself. (See this weekly #35's highlights on gooseberry.blender.org for more information. And don't forget to use the latest Gooseberry branch build!)

Pablo has continued his work tweaking the lighting, particularly for the shot where Victor speaks to Franck – while Manu works on the look of Victor's side of the conversation, Pablo is focusing on Franck.

Andy says, "This week I tried to spread the tornado over the various shots we have and focus on getting the look down. I counted 9 shots for the outside of the tornado based on Ton's list. These 9 shots will be solved in 5 different sims. Data-wise I'm guessing about 5 x 300 GB of data in the worst case." Click through the files and videos to the left to see his progress!

From swirling cloud nodes to new hair tests, Lukas has had a busy week. Click through this folder to see what he's been up to!

Click the video to the left to see the latest edit of Cosmos Laundromat!

To the left you'll find two versions of Franck's side of Victor's first intro – one version without hair, and the other with.

To the left, you'll find the latest edit of the film, with more advanced animations replacing the layouts and even some low-res renders included. You'll also find two versions of the trailer (with one scene difference between them). The trailer has dramatically changed from last week's version! This version will be replaced by finished animations to create the final trailer.

Browse Julian's screenshots of his Blender improvements from this week.

Check out Lukas's latest hair-caching updates in these two videos.

This week Andy not only worked on the tornado, but also added some more details to Franck's final model, giving the fur more highlights and adding discoloration, etc., to the mouth interior. Click through the videos and images on the left to see what he's done.

Pablo has been working on the lighting and look of key shots from the film. See his animated and still renders by clicking through the files to the left.

Watch the videos from this folder in order to see how the animation of the sequence where Victor replaces Franck's rope with the timer has evolved over the week, with and without the added camera movement. (Watch Franck!)

In this folder you'll find Antonis's test file for the proportional editing support, which you can download to test yourself (with the latest Gooseberry branch build).

In the videos here you will find two new versions of Victor's introduction to Franck with more gestures and expressions.

This week Manu modeled and rigged the washing machine drum (out of which the tornado appears), plus he updated a previous still render of Victor giving Franck his timer with the fur highlights and lighting changes made by Andy and Pablo.

In addition to Sarah's animation of Franck during Victor's intro, you'll find her and Juan Pablo's five sheep models (plus a baby sheep) that will make up the flock on Sheep Island.

Click the video and images to the left to see the latest developments in the tornado made by Andy Goralczyk, which is now all but final.

Click through the images to the left for screenshots of the new Attract interface.

In the 2 videos in the folder you'll see Beorn's progress animating 1) Franck reaching the cliff, and 2) Victor introducing himself to Franck.

Click the video to the left to watch the progression of the sequence where Victor replaces Franck's rope with the timer over the course of the week, as Hjalti carefully blocks out the timing.

Here you'll find Severin's first character pose plus some screenshots of proposed features he is currently working on.

Download the test files here (plus the latest Gooseberry branch build) to play with the new caching system Lukas has been working on. (Watch Lukas's demo in this week's livecast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz0C71iXkLU)

To the left you'll find 3 versions of the scene where Franck pushes the branch to the cliff, is interrupted, and listens to Victor. This shot is now in the splining stage.

Click through the videos to the left to see and/or download the latest cut of the film plus 2 potential versions of the pivotal tornado scene.

In addition to progression on setting up shots from the opening sequence to Franck reaching the cliff and talking to Victor, Pablo has been updating blender.org and the Blender Store. Check out the videos and screenshots in this folder to the left!

Click through the videos to see Manu's latest renders of Victor walking away, Hjalti's blocking shot of the rope-timer switch (notice more sky details, like moving clouds), Franck pushing the branch (even without the hair in his face), and a wide shot of the island (which may be enhanced with white caps and foam later).