Composite (Merge) etc.

[Rodney]

I had forgotten that I put together a terrain test for Papa Bear's fishing hole and just ran across some of the renderings from that test.

I can't find the file at present but am sure I have it around here yet.

 

The terrain was actually a test to see how rapidly I could create an outside set starting from top view (plan view) in a Chor while working simultaneously in the Modeling window.

I thought that worked quite well.

 

The attache .mov file is actually a representation of all the modes that can be used with the Merge Post Effect via Composite. And of course the settings can be animated (but we can't always see what we've set... not in the Timeline that is... we have to look for the changes in the actual setting. Perhaps I'm still missing something there).

I recall being a bit discouraged that I couldn't get the Mix Post Effect to animate so was playing with Merge instead.

 

The rounded rectangles were yet another test where I had placed square patches into a model, dropped that into a Chor and used high glow and low radius to round the corners (Hey, what can I say, it worked).

 

I hesitate to post this here because it might be difficult to tell how it relates to Papa Bear but will post it anyway by way of encouragement to keep pressing on toward the day when your short will be in the can.

 

Added a second image (a quick test of flat shading if I'm not mistaken)

merge.mov

[fae_alba]

I had forgotten that I put together a terrain test for Papa Bear's fishing hole and just ran across some of the renderings from that test.

I can't find the file at present but am sure I have it around here yet.

 

Hey Rodney, the next modeling task for Papa Bear (after the sci-fi contest!) is to begin a list of props and sets I need for the first script. The vision I had was a setup much like Disney used in Bambi (the multi-plane camera) and rely a lot on background paintings to achieve that look. This of course will depend largely on my ability to understand lighting, rotoscoping etc that I haven't had a chance to play with yet. But your set does fit the bill for the foreground and the props that Papa Bear will need to interact with. A large tree with replete with a family of birds plays a big part!