Mechanics Vs. Aliens Episode 6

Today I finished Mechanics Vs. Aliens Episode 6. I'm pretty stoked about that. As of the writing of this blog post, it has not yet finished uploading to YouTube. When it goes up, I will have fulfilled the promise that I made to everyone.

I finished Mechanics Vs. Aliens.

Episode 6 DID come out EVENTUALLY.

Man, I'm so glad to be done with this. And now we will see what I do about The Battle for Axis Mundi. It's now the only thing standing between me and a plate of film projects which are free from the limits of a rendering engine from 2004. Oh yeah, and I actually stayed up all night last night and all day today finishing up this masterpiece (or what I hope you will agree is a masterpiece, haha). So, I think that I will be going to sleep before it finishes uploading. YouTube tells me that when it is finished, it will be viewable here.

I hope to see a bunch of nice comments in the morning! Tell me what you think of the ending! ;D Peace out.

Bull in a China Shop

So, it's the weekend, and I've got a lot of stuff going on. I'm really close to finishing Mechanics Vs. Aliens, and I'm also working on a 3d Animation for my internship. The company I'm working for is Bullhorn Creative, and the animation that I am working on for them has to do with a bull in a china shop. Here's the animatic that I used to pitch the idea to them:

Short and sweet. So anyways, today I've been working on the lighting and materials for this animation. Check it out:

Frustrated with Indirect Lighting result

Aha! I had to subdivide my walls

Added my own seamless texture

Adding a displacement map... Whoa nelly!!

Set the displacement amount to a sane level, also changed the floor and ceiling to white.

So, the set for my animation is coming along nicely, and it's going to be an awesome portfolio piece when the whole thing is finished. And fact that I am doing this work for a real-world branding firm will strengthen my portfolio even more.

Now that I've worked on that, I'm going to try and finish MVA this weekend.

So close man....

So I've been hacking away at getting the last scene of Mechanics Vs. Aliens edited whenever I have the chance. Other than that I've been doing stuff for my internship (including making a 3D animation). I really wish I could finish MVA tonight, but I have to get up early to get to a video shoot that will last all day tomorrow. So, like I said, I'm just hacking away whenever I get the chance. I'm really, really, close, though.

Super excited

So, I'm super excited. And I have the right to be. I just spent the last 5 hours filming the final battle in Mechanics Vs. Aliens. I just need to edit it together and probably get a few more shots to help tie everything together. Take a look at how the editing panned out:

There's about 50 nested sequences in there, by the way, so it's even more complicated than what you see there. Also, notice the runtime? Like it? ;)

So yeah. It's happening soon. After 4 years, Mechanics Vs. Aliens is finally coming to an end.