Blog Post 11:

I spent the week on up resing are shots and lighting shot 4 and 5

Lighting pass for shot 5

New lighting for shot 4

Shot 2 in 4k

Blog Post 10:

New lighting for shot 2

Shot 4 Tunnel Ref and New tunnel lighting

Short 4 Comp quilt

Blog Post 9:

I worked on new lighting for shot 4

Scale Change Idea for shot 1

Cloud test for shot 2

Blog Post 8:

This week we started with our continuity quilts. I feel like ours is working pretty well with shot 2 and 4 needing some work.

I quickly moved on to changing the camera angle for shot 2. I also switch the lens from a 50mm to a 24mm lens.

During this i felt like the train scale was wrong so me and Anh did some test in shot 1

For ref the Floor of the car should be 4 foot 3 inches. We made our Humen in houdini 5,11 to match my height. I than measured 4,3 on me for ref. This lead to use scaling the train up by 1.25.

Old scale

New scale

Once the scale was figured out I pass back shot 2 to Anh, so she could start working on the trees and the bridge. She also pass me the work she just finished on shot 1 so i could update the lighting,

Quick Shot 1 Lighting update

Shot 3 tunnel lighting pass.

Blog Post 7:

Lighting Test

Shot 1 First motion blur pass

Shot 2 lighting

Shot 3 Lighting

Shot 5

Blog Post 6:

Focus on lighting the shots this week.

Shot 1 Pass one

Pass two

Shot 1 lighting Ref

Shot 2 First pass of lighting

Pass 2

Shot 4 First pass

Pass 2

Blog Post 5:

This week i spent time working on environments and first passes of lighting

I used vegetation mask in Gaea to set up vegetaion placement in Houdini.

I used what i set up in the old file of shot 2 to the new environment Anh was working on. I also started doing first passes of lighting test in Houdini.

I started on the first pass of lighting for shot

First pass of lighting and comp

I added in the shader for the Amtrak for shot 4 and did first pass of lighting

And I finished the most up to date cut

Blog Post 4:

Shot 2 A: New enviroment being made based off cowboy paintings.

Gaea Maps

Environment Ref

Lighting Ref

Blog Post 3:

I’ve started some motion blur test and work on the environment for shot 1 with Anh.

Here is the First version of the Map i made in Gaea for Shot 1

Version 2 of the Map

Tree Mask

Here are some of the Motion Blur Test, Anh and I have started on.

This video is a test using Motion Vectors and Zdepth

This is a Test with Motion blur in engine and Zdepth (Not Deep)

Blog Post 2:

I made a Test landscape in Gaea using the free version. I plan to buy a full version so I can export out 4k.

Previs Done in Unreal, Lighting is not final nor is camera.

Gaea Build Tree

Blog Post 1:

Amtrak

My team decided based off the prompt to make a Amtrak AD

Here is the model we are using.

https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/vehicle/train/acela-express

Previs

Shot 1

Shot 2

I plan to have more previs done next week.

Video Ref

Midjourney