Picket

Tuesday, 21st April 2009

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on a bite-size animation, which today I’ve almost finished. It’s an overhead shot of a picket fence maze in a field of lush grass. The camera pulls out to reveal the picket fences are falling over and spelling out the words ‘Save Our Souls’.

Once again, I’ve worked on the project from concept to completion, and come across lots of learning opportunities in the meantime. Due to the size of the scene (I created it to scale) the render times were quite long, but minimising them is a valuable skill and one that I’m better at now. I tested a few ways of creating a large amount of grass - using fur seemed to be the best option. I’m also getting a bit more adept at using compositing packages. The final result will be part of a showreel I hope to produce in a couple of months.