This is sort of a melancholy post, considering that the following effects shots will never be presented within the film they were meant to be a part of. That short film, which I've been working on with my classmates for the last four weeks, unfortunately suffered the unbecoming fate of being catastrophically deleted from a school workstation. Poof.
And so it is gone. Bits to bits. Zeros to zeros.
The biting irony is that we were making the video for a competition called "good things just get better."
One bright side is that the work I did do forced me to sort out some match moving workflow issues I'd been putting off for a while. While it looks like a simple shot, it's actually got some pretty fancy techniques under the hood, including Lightwave's cloth simulation system, wind randomization, and animated textures. Each poster was rendered out as a separate pass and combined in After Effects, where they were all given a slight glowing effect and rotoscoped behind my head.
Posters from Alexander Cooney on Vimeo.
There's not supposed to be a jump cut in the middle of the shot. That was where one of the fallen reaction shots was supposed to go...sigh.
it's only zeros now because you didn't try to find it when it was a lost, yet still meaningful, series of zeros and ones.
Posted by: Carl | April 04, 2010 at 04:09 PM