I worked mainly on the light trail of the whale this week, which is the last major FX work needed to finish the shots. This is almost done now, just a matter of implementing it in the remaining few shots.

This week I helped out with some concept art for the golden trail and also animated with Grease Pencil over two shots to test the workflow for adding in extra brushstrokes and fx by hand.

Adjusting the brush stroke jittering in certain sequences was my primary concern this week. I also merged the post paint-over work from Rik and Vivien into the compositing setups of their respective shots. I also separated the motion trail effects in 260_return into their own render passes and merged them back together in comp. The rest was just spent on reporting bugs and packing up the splash screen file for the Blender 4.2 release