Artefact 5 Outcome

From the storyboard I posted previously, I then edited a short film using rendered images, effects, and sound. I only managed to render it slowly at 640x360 because for some reason a tiny bit of volume light adds days to render times! It's not great quality, but sufficient enough for what I was experimenting with.

Here is the video from Vimeo (for some reason the start quality is worse when uploaded online - it's usually better on the original file!)



The Classroom (Artefact 5 - Editing) from Samantha Freeman on Vimeo.

Artefact 5 - Finally close to rendering finished & storyboard

For my final artefact I chose to continue from the shots produced in my previous one, and to focus on editing skills - including some animation and effects.

So, the main reason I haven't updated here for such a while is because of very little progress due to ridiculous render times. I am only rendering at 640x360, which I thought would save time, but it still takes about an hour per frame so has been taking rather a long time! Anyway, it is nearly done now, just rendering as many frames for the final camera shot as possible to lengthen the video.

I have started editing the shots I have already rendered in After Effects, fading them together using opacity, as well as adding effects and some sound. It is quite amazing what difference a backing track can make actually, when I tried adding some horror style music it totally changed the feel of the video so far, which wasn't totally what I was expecting.

I have also produced a quick storyboard following on from what I planned in my previous artefact presentation, using ink style renders (Quicksilver renderer) in Photoshop...