U.Ving, Texturing, Animating, Lighting anything else?

This week I am working all over the place there is so much to get done still and its quite stressful and problems keep poping up. I have not got time to texture all of my assets which I would like to do but I have to put getting the film finished before doing what I like, James has said he will Texture the assets for me but he can't U.V them so I have to, I have Modeled a tree for the graveyard which james was supposed to texture but when I gave it to him yet again he could not U.V so I had to and I also textured it for him just incase it was to difficult and I would have to end off doing it anyway. I think the film would be going alot smoother if James could actually do work and if he could do it without acting like he is doing you a favor. The point of working as a team would involve helping each other get the jobs done but james just seems to want to do what he likes without learning anything new which is causing problems.

I have got quite alot done I have been working on the animations which is proving hard as I am not an animator but I am trying to get them done as quick as possible.

I have been lighting scene 3 as well and I decided to change the stairs inside the old peoples home as I am not happy with the ones I originally created. here is a pic of the new stairs, the texture map did that me a while to get right as i wanted the stairs to look used but not unusable

One More Thing

For scene two we have an exterior shot of the Old Peoples Home which is on one file and the interior for scene 3 in a seperate file to save on render time ect. I noticed this may cause a problem when you see the exterior with no interior in scene 2 if that makes any sense. To fix this problem i have been testing merging the scenes to add an interior to the exterior which appears to work quite well as you can see below compaired to the lighting test shot which shows the same frame with no interior.

The End is Near

ok so theres 3 weeks left on Friday i believe and still quite alot of work to do but it is possible, this week I have have managed quite alot this week I have managed to finished the lighting for Scene 2 as well as start lighting scene 3. I have been mostly U.V mapping as well as finishing texturing and creating texture maps, I have done so many U.V Maps I have lost count, I would say I am very confident with creating U.V maps now which is a bonus.

I have now finished texturing Scene 2, below you can see the lighting I have created next to the image of the scene lit by ambient occulsion which Ross showeed me how to do. the ambient scene took over 5mins per frame to render without many textures and the scene I lit took 20secs with textures, I do like the subtle shadows of the ambient but the time it takes to render is too long.

This is the 20sec render

This took more than 5Mins

For next week I plan to have Scene 3 lit and textured so i can begin doing more animations and finalising camera work.

4 weeks left?

this week I have managed quite a lot I have animated the crows began U.Ving scene 2 and 3 as well as texturing so we have pretty much got scene 1 finished now all the animation is complete and we are about ready to do some render tests.

I have also been working on the lighting for scene 2 and 4 which i had some what of a problem with as maya decided to crash just as i had got the lighting just right so i have now had to redo the lighting which is now finally finished. all that is left for these scenes is the texturing which i have decided to leave till after the lighting so i can see the areas that will be seen the most to make the textures look really good

I have also Managed to finished the aniamtion for Bob and the Crows which I am happy with as I have not animated sinse first year.