Last Light, Winter 2014

Set in the 1950's along an American coast line, the sun sets, and the last ray of sunlight flies out.  While competing against his fellow rays of light as well as electric bulbs, the last ray  must look for a place to stay and light up for the night.  This 3D animated short will be using complex shading and lighting in a stylized world while featuring a simple piano soundtrack with environment sound effects.

Greetings everyone!

Thanks for taking a look at my blog for my film.  This is the beginning of a new year, and a new quarter.  The goals for this quarter are to complete the rigging, animation, and texturing, and to start on lighting and continue with the sound and the matte paintings in the background.  I also plan to complete several style sheets to really nail down the final aesthetic of the film.  I have a few new objects to place into the various scenes to help populate the environment, which should be done this week.  I've also brought on some more people to help with the film, including Eric who will help me later on with the particle effects.

Another change on my blog you will notice is that the animatic will now have a password attached to it.  I apologize to anyone who wanted to see this, but my goal in the next few months is to start making my rounds in various film festivals.  So keep an eye open.  I will post more as the project progresses.

Final 3D Animatic This Year

This is going to be a big update.  I have been very busy with this film, working on everything from modeling to basic animation to character rigging and more.  I plan to do more work to prepare for the final animation and lighting over the winter break, but this will be the last update to my animatic this year.  I would like to thank everyone involved so far in this film this quarter, including Michelle Ionescu, who has been helping me with the design, modeling, and sound; Raymond McCoy-Sanders, who helped with modeling so far; Dennis McCoy, who also helped with modeling; China Nadeau, who made my beautiful backgrounds; Nora Graven for helping with rigging my character; and my professor, Mathew Maloney, who has been giving me great feedback and ideas to make this a much stronger film.

There is still a LOT of work to do.  Next quarter I am going to focus on getting all the rigging finalized, getting the animation finished, getting as many of the backgrounds finished as I can, and finish as much texturing as I can, as well as starting preliminary lighting.  Over the break I am going to work on some minor fixes and tweaks and getting feedback.

I can't promise I will have another update to the blog this year, but I will make sure to keep any significant updates posted here.

Last Light 3D Animatic with sound from Last Light Film on Vimeo.

Blog Arrangement

This blog is arranged in a simple manner.  Following the buttons above, you can reach the regular blog posts at any time by pressing on the Home tab.  You can then look at the current state of the (completed) Pre-Production work, which consists of work from my Concept Development class, by selecting the Pre-Production tab.  Next to that, the Production tab will give you the current state of the production as done in the Senior I  and Senior II classes.  Finally, the Post-Production work from the final post-production class is next to that, and will be updated after production has finished.

If you would like to see my other blog, which will consist of all the projects I am currently working on, selected the Pixel of the Day Blog tab.

Thank you for your interest and support!