I did a rushy work last week in order to finish the project as a whole, and now after the first submission, I’m tweaking stuff a bit with lighting, texturing, render setting, and some other variables.
– cloth material place2dTexture is readjusted, and cloth Mesh UV is remapped (fix moire issue)
– shot by shot light set up on demand (fix the burned out problem)
– Fear’s texture is added
and so on… stay tuned!
It’s quite busy now, so I don’t have much time to upload stuff. Maybe this Saturday I’ll be able to upload some updated work in progress “sneak peek” (pretty much playblasts and some rendered+composited shots).
Anyways, the big one is here now, the last scene. However, I’m 1 day behind my expectation now.
I just noticed that the batch rendering uses only 2 out of 8 available CPU cores on my new PC.
I did some research on Creativecow.org and Creativecrash.com for a solution. It’s pretty simple. Here is a step by step with image guidance:
Step 1: Go to “Render” tab.
Step 2: Click Render menu and select Batch Render with the box. You will se this window pops up.
Step 3: Uncheck “Auto Render Threads” then type in your preference of how many cores you’re willing to contribute.
Step 4*: Some folks on those forums suggest that you might want to un check “Render on the network machines” as well, so I gave it a try.
The render performance should be improved by now, which I found it made my day.
This is much slower from my expectation…
I just got my hands on this scene in the late afternoon after my tweaks in the scene 2.
It seems to be a pretty long night here…
As I’m waiting for my machines to render out the scene 1 and 2, I finalize the visual breakdown accordingly to to my edit.
It really seems to be a tight schedule situation here.
So… I planned to finish up the whole scene 3 by tomorrow night. Then Move on the the longest scene, scene 4, as quick as possible (hopefully, to finish the whole thing by Monday night).
It’s a pretty short scene here, but I spent 80% of the time adjusting the lighting and camera movement (which it may “shine” after the rendering is done).
The deadline is approaching very soon, so I started to render background layer of some shots that got the stable timing.
Also, I have done finalizing the lighting and render setting for most of the first 8 shots now.
shot 1 lighting test
shot2 lighting sampling
shot 2 lighting sampling
shot 3 lighting sampling
shot3 luminance depth sampling
shot3 luminance depth sampling
shot4 shader workaround: BEFORE
shot4 shader workaround: selective Blinn with Additional Color
shot4 shader workaround: AFTER
shot4 shader workaround: pumping up some more intensity
shot 5 lighting sampling
shot 1 lighting test
shot5 frame #0124
shot 1 frame #0144
shot 8 background layer frame #0228
[WIP] shot 8 backgroundLayer from Thanasak Patanasin on Vimeo.
Now I’m still working on this scene.
Shot8
[WIP] playblastShot008 from Thanasak Patanasin on Vimeo.
More are coming…
Some playblast examples from scene 1:
Shot1
[WIP] playblastShot001 from Thanasak Patanasin on Vimeo.
Shot2
[WIP] playblastShot002 from Thanasak Patanasin on Vimeo.
Shot3
[WIP] playblastShot003 from Thanasak Patanasin on Vimeo.
Shot 4
[WIP] playblastShot004 from Thanasak Patanasin on Vimeo.
Shot 5
[WIP] playblastShot005 from Thanasak Patanasin on Vimeo.
Shot 6
[WIP] playblastShot006 from Thanasak Patanasin on Vimeo.
Shot 7
Right now, I’m in the stage of shot blocking and draft animating.
Here are some updates.
Characters:
Sa
the Fear
[WIP] Fear Rig from Thanasak Patanasin on Vimeo.
the Doctor 
Layouts:
Sa’s Bedroom
Hospital Facilities
Doctor’s Room
Doctor’s Room
Doctor’s Room
Treatment Room
Treatment Room
Treatment Room
Hallway
Alien Frameworks 