Time for another progress update. I'm currently deep in the process of building rough versions of all the "stuff" that I'll need for the film. This includes the main characters, a minimum number of props to rough things out, and the sets. If I was smart, I would have scripted no more than two or three sets, but instead I've got closer to a dozen. The folks at Pixar have noted that everything in their films is lovingly hand-crafted by computer, and that applies to this as well. This image shows just a random smattering of test renders for models that I've been working on so far.
I had hoped that I was close to the point where I could start on a rough animatic, but it just dawned on me that with everything shaded the default 50% grey it's going to be pretty tough to see what's going on. So...it looks like before I can start making things move I need to go back and apply some simple textures to these things so that I can see what's what in the rendered output. Oh, well. Gives me something to do while we watch "Gilmore Girls."
Posted by Jason at November 12, 2005 05:24 PM