Well I've gotten to picture lock. Technically the look of the film, all animation and textures and such, should be done. In reality, I have lots left to change, including animation and timing, textures, lighting, and more importantly setting up for render passes.
I need to have render passes for the next steps because I am compositing visual effects of the ocean and particle trails into the film and need to have the elements separated. I also have long render times for a lot of this, and need to make the scenes more efficient, and separating things into passes will help me get them rendered on the render farm (which has a 2 hour per frame time limit).
So for now I have the new animatic with timing and textures, but I have a long way to go in the next few weeks. Also, I got in touch with a guy, Chris Klaxton, to compose some music for me. Can't wait to see what he comes up with!
