Week 13 progress

         This week seems to have gone quite well, I am still polishing the animation in places with renders adding to the success of the week, User testing has proven that the animation is becoming more emotive and powerful with elements starting to show of some work that I am very proud of. With the pros, however, must come a series of cons, the first of these being the university servers crashing two days in a row, crashing every item of software.

     Secondly is the issue that I have had with adding fluidity to the speaking elements of the animation. The sound has been edited better in other places though and I feel that I just need some time to think through the best possible characterisation and go from there. The audience needs to feel the character's emotions from this.

      Finally, the snow simulation issue is still in place with the rendered shots. I will continue to look into this but it seems like post production snow simulation, via Premiere Pro or Nuke will have to be the way to go.

Here is the week 13 progress. Partly rendered. Partly playblast.