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.

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!

Welcome

Welcome all to the official blog for the short student film "Last Light".  This short animation is the senior project of SCAD student David Hixon.  The blog will chronicle the development of the 2013/2014 film, and show the various stages of the production.

Last Light is a film about the last ray of sunlight trying to find a place to stay for the night, where it can be of use to someone.  This film will be fully 3D, using a variety of software packages, including Autodesk Maya, SideFX Houdini, Foundry Nuke, Adobe CC suite, and more.

You can check out the pages linked to at the top of the blog to look at examples of the film's pre-production, production, and post-production stages when they are available.  You can also access my main blog, Pixel of the Day, from there as well.

Thank you for your interest, and remember to check back often for more updates!