This week I continued to light shots in 040_downward and 050_improvise. To finalize 010_intro, Vivien provided the final clipboard drawing which I integrated into the prop rig. For 050, the blinking red lights could finally be animated, Beau set up a bone in the rocket interior rig, which can be animated and in turn can be set up to drive all the lights in the shot files. I also went into the set to define the material and outline colors of the light bulbs and have them properly switched by the rig.

This week I wrapped up my work on the sky sets and matte painting 3D setups. All shots that need clouds do now have them.

And we are back! Animation team had some holiday (except Mack Bo) for the past weeks, but we came back full of energy to continue animating. All sequences have already animated shots and we only have a few left to finish all!!!!!

Also this last week was the last for Mack Bo, was super to have him working with us and I hope we will have him on board soon!

From now on is just Rik and me animating, so wish us luck!!!!

In the beginning of the week I wrapped up my work on the material for the Blender 3.6 release with an introduction video and some small demo files. Then I did a bunch of fixes and small adjustments in shading and jumped back into FX. The smoke FX are further along, but do need a bit more work next week.

This week I continued work on the cloud matte paintings, some smaller ones even got wrapped up. Other than that I finally got around to the clipboard drawings and as usual some paintover for lighting and fx and a final one for the wingcolors of the rocket. Not much left to do on this one!