Confirmed by comments on my recent post, I will try to refrain as much as possible from displaying potential spoiler images.
As this would mean, to cease showing any images from now on, I thought I could give you some look ‘behind the scenes’ of the type of work I am mainly involved right now concerning Ara’s Tale.
This is especially for you, the small but constant number of followers of this project 😉
The typical workflow right now is to setup a shot for proper lighting and rendering and then render out the frames as multilayer EXR files.
Those are then fed into the compositor where the real lighting work is done.
During the setup on my current shots, I recognized, that this would be a perfect opportunity to show you, what I am doing here. And what’s best, without revealing essential parts of the core story.
Below you see a somewhat compressed look at how I typically setup the lighting and compositing and can follow the progress on an actual shot up t its ‘final’ result.
Well, almost final, as the result in this case is only the base for further VFX work. It is also relatively simple in comparison to other shots I have/had to do, so the total amount of time is short enough to be demonstrated here. ( parts are accelerated though )
Well, here is the screencast
and here is the final shot
wow, that looks realy awsome. great job.
Looking great so far! Do you have any suggestions on books I can read on Compositing?
Thanks Milad.
The only one I can suggest is ‘Compositing Visual Effects’ by Steve Wright. This gives a good idea on the topic.
I also watched several tutorials for other packages, and her it was very clear that the compositing in blender has still some way to go ( that may get better now with the mango project).
Thanks! I went to a store to check out the availability of that book, and it seems to be a very expensive one 🙁 But ah well.
And yes, I’m pretty much doing the same thing, referring other softwares as well.
Hm, amazon lists it here at 28 EUR, which in my eyes is not very expensive.
Another one, and maybe more in depth, is ‘The Art and Science of Digital Compositing’ by Ron Brinckmann. As paperback the price shouldn’t be too high either.
That’s even more expensive! I’m not sure if you can see , but Rs 3500 is super expensive for a book here. Same as the other one, this is an imported version too. But still, thanks!
A little tag mishap with the previous comment :}. Forgot to add these are Indian prices. For the sake of comparison, check out another . See how low it is, compared to the Compositing book.
Now thats strange indeed.
The price at amazon for the Brinckmann book is 42 EUR which is 2950 Rs
Whereas the price for the animation cookbook is at 34 EUR which is 2390 Rs
The price policy is not very transparent I would say …
Hey, for ‘Compositing Visual Effects’ by Steve Wright there’s a better and cheaper option is to buy the ebook version for kindle (actually you don’t have to own one, but the software works only on mac and windows I think)
22 dollars to buy, 10 dollars to rent!
http://www.amazon.com/Compositing-Visual-Effects-Essentials-ebook/dp/B00177OW0O/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1326038663&sr=1-1