Yipeee! I've decided to call it quit in terms of animatic. It is now time for the actual work.
I feel I have a solid foundation to build upon, and it will give me great confidence during animation, that I know exactly what needs to be done and that I'm not gonna do any "waste" animation.
Another thing is I'm gonna put up the first 1:20 for public display. So here it is, the public part of my animatic.
This might seem like an inactive blog but the project itself is very active. Storyboarding is pretty much finished and I've slowly started my cg work.
I've had a lot of trouble finding the visual style, but I think I now have a pretty good idea about what I want to do. I'm thinking of putting the first part of the film out there for the public to follow, and make it a open project, at least for the first minute or so. I've been doing quite a bit of research and testing on how to create underwater look. One of the more successfull one can be seen here:
I've tried to set up a pretty "realistic" environment for this test. It is a box filled with fog, that I cast light into. The light is broken up by a plane with a ocean texture as transparency. The glow of the sphere is actually not a "faking" glow of blured light, but a more physical correct glow, of attenuating light, lighting up the surrounding fog. With this approach, which might not be the most render-friendly, I should be able to pretty easily add any element I want and it should behave nicely :)
