Production Logs

While working on a handful of render glitch fixes on the film, I picked up where I last left of on the movie's various poster ideas.

I want to keep the final version of the film a surprise, so unless more people are begging to see it, I'm gonna refrain from uploading it here :) This week I've done the first pass of color grading on the film in the VSE. Sergey helped a lot ironing out the workflow for proxies and HDR, and by the end of the week I had a pretty responsive set-up! I did an entire pass of the film, ironing out the differences between shots and conforming everything to look great in SDR and HDR.

This week I actually definitively wrapped up my work on Singularity, leaving only Andy to put on the finishing touches. My last tasks were all about the final shot of the film to add that last bit of visual fidelity.

This week I've been re-working the lighting of the last shots in 050_contact and sent everything to the render farm. In the meantime I've created a few compositing effects to add more drama and consistency to the shots.

This week was hijacked by the 5.1 splash screen which is going to feature our adorable Critter! (stay tuned for the release if you haven't seen him pop up in the daily builds already). The rest of the work was re-lighting chunks of 060_dance and the ending of the film. I also finally added a proper title card to the film.

This week I was sick (again), so my time and brain were quite limited by that. But I still managed to wrap up the shading of One with the unconscious state, as well as the shading of the close-up tendril with a layer of brushstrokes, also the unconscious state and a slight wiggle on the bulbs.