Final Shot

This is my final shot which I made up using footage of a hand opening and particle effects to represent petals and the magical 'energy' of the galuppis, conveyed the idea that 'the future is in our hands' - we just have to act to do something about it - which goes back to the original concept of the film and something that Sal wanted to convey with this film is, i think, clearly summed up here.

A Toccata of Galuppis

I sat with chris and sal and helped them grade their sections and apply film effects. The colours work nicely i think, but we had to be careful not to overdo it and lose the original colour schemes.

I did the credits in after effects using text animation presets to fade them in and out, with a particle generator layer similar to the one i created before, and animated it behind to make the credits a but more dynamic and less dull!

This is the final film that we will hand in on friday. I'm very happy with what we have produced, despite the set-backs which we have encountered along the way. Congratulations to all involved and good luck to us all!

my section finished

Well, it seems I'm pretty much there with my section. Sal is happy with it and so am I! The post production I did on my section includes film grain and a gradient which I tweaked so that it was different but not so much so that it looked out of place from the other sections.

Montage/penultimate shot

This was the montage shot and sal wanted a montage of real life footage of key events and issues in todays modern society, for example, riots, deforestation etc, to be integrated somehow into the animation. I tried many things, first of all, blending various bits of sourced footage into the background behind the explosion. But then decided to carry them on into another shot. The result was this sidescrolling shot where the montage is being played in the background and I had the idea to use those environments I had rendered out from vue all that time ago as landscapes scrolling by.

The Particle layer for this shot was really just an afterthought. I felt that the shot lacked point lacked something - a focus or point of interest as to why the camera was moving in the way that it was. Therefore I decideded to animate the particle layer to follow the camera and represent the 'hope' of the Galuppis, which would lead nicely into the final shot of my section and indeed the film..

rendertest of first shot (3rd section)