KAGHATI | WINTER QUARTER
This is my dailies blog for the current short animated film production, Kaghati, releasing Spring 2021. I will be posting progress updates on story, lighting, compositing, look development, rendering and directing/team management.
WEEK 1
01.04.2021
The team has been chugging away over the winter break and making exciting progress across the whole pipeline!
These are my goals for myself to complete over the course of the next 10 weeks (Winter Quarter):
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Continue to host weekly meetings every Saturday and provide feedback for the team
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Finish lookdev on remaining assets (kites, lapa-lapa, exterior environment)
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Light 10 shots + promo material and assign & set up 5 shots for lighting dept. to work on (+ give notes)
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Render and composite 10 shots (refine the post-production pipeline)
Update 1 | Kite lookdev progress + set dressing
In total, the grandpa's kite garage has 11 variations of kite models. This week I focused on finishing the shading and texture variations of 6 of them--I will be finishing the other 5 next week.
Kite Garage Concepts by Alyssa Lee
Kite Design Concepts + Basecolor maps by Alyssa Lee
(I like to do absolutely everything on power point because its the easiest way for me to visually organize images!)
Kite references
Update 2 | Promo material (Lighting)
Every 2 weeks we try to post new content for our film's instagram page--this week I also worked on lighting our girl character (Alya Angkasa)'s introduction post which will be a render of her passport with her character profile information. (similar to the grandpa's id card render!)
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These are some pretty noisy test renders of the full sequence of Alya's facial personality animation! (The sequence was made to test out the rig with the expression sheet concept art.
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WEEK 2
01.11.2021
This week I focused on completing the final renders on the remaining kite assets. I also added final touches to the sh01 lighting and comp.
Update 1 | Sh01 Lighting + Comp
Based off of notes from my previous version, I worked on adding stronger shadows from the lamp light source as well as adding more fill to the room overall and toning down the distracting specular highlight on the scissors. I think its ready for the final render!
Update 2 | Remaining Kites Lookdev
Fish Kite, Kaghati Kolope, Kite D, Hero Kite, Set Dressing updates
This week I continued to flush out the remaining kite textures as well as place them into the set dress master file to make sure the color scheme works well together and isn't too overwhelming.
WEEK 3
01.18.2021
Update 1 | Feedback to the team across pipeline
Something that I'm realizing after taking on a directing position on a project like this, is that a lot of time is spent just reviewing everyone else's progress as well as continuously providing feedback and notes. It is quite a lot to think about on top of also contributing to the artistic production myself, but definitely enjoyable and a good learning experience for balancing workload!
here are some of the progress pictures from the team across lighting, sim and texturing.
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1. Lighting Shot 03 by Ivan
Gave notes that the exposure might be a touch too high and that we need to work on matching lighting styles, but love the dynamism created and expressive lines to go with the warm atmosphere!
2. Final touches to textures by Lorena
'faking' the look of depth in the keyhole by coloring in the area a dark brown.
3. RC Plane Lookdev progress by Lorena
Deciding on a Pattern and color scheme for the RC Plane. We discussed different options for what looks balanced with Alya's color scheme, as well as what amount of stripes etc. would look cohesive within the plane design itself.
4. Cloth Sim for Shot 20 & Alya's walk cycle by Christian
Notes on too much bunching up of cloth on the shoulder areas, as well as weird glitches popping up appearing like render noise.
WEEK 4
01.25.2021
Update 1 | Setting up Lighting pipeline with CFX + shaders + set
During this week's meeting, we spent a good chunk of time discussing how we want to set up the shot files to get all the assets and simulated cloth + groom for lighting. We ended up nailing down this pipeline (making it as simple as possible --->)
My current worries for moving forward with the film are entirely technical. How our set dress file is currently set up involves referencing every single asset and texture, and it is a beast of a file to open and usually crashes my maya. Hopefully by importing only select props like planned on the right image will make things go smoother.
Christian and I will be meeting with two lighters that are currently Disney Trainees to talk about how they set their shots up for their senior thesis films!
- we also posted our character intro post on instagram!
