Conclusion

Now i can say that the kitchen has been completed fully at a good standard, and i am pleased to say that i am happy with what the team have achieved. Overallfrom the start of the project our group hadcome together to produce a great idea of using tom and jerry theme kitchen as our enviroment. At the very begining of the project our group had a few disagrements and what not, but what group dosent. While disscussing our issues with each other in the formative,we felt that when we settled our differences we though it was time to crack on with the work. What else can i say i enjoyed the project it had its ups and downs but overall it was good.

Modelling the enviroment was something new and very enjoyable to do, seeing the first stage of the project to the final outcome is very pleasing and just shows the hard work and dedication we all put in to it.

Render farm complete

Just came in today at 9:00 to check the render status, and yes it renderd successfully which was good news. Looks like the render farm actually lives up to the good news i hear about it. Well basically at the moment our team is just compositing the movie file in Adobe After Effects where we are adding the transitions and sound files. I will post up the the results for the final outcome of the kitchen scene file.

Thursday night

Just about to leave college closing soon, so i might aswel give an update on the progress thus far. Well basically my section of the scene had already been renderd out successfuly on the local machines and the time it took to do that was 17hrs for 950 frames. We still needed to render out Richards and Deans scenes, and we knew if we had sent it out to the local it would take over 18hrs as they had more frames in there scene. Dean sent his file into the render darm for the first time and oh my it was soo fast and helpful. Dean decided to do a quick test by sending my scene to the render farm and let it render. The time it tooked to render was only 45 mins compared to local which took 17hrs OMG lol.

only 10mins remaining till college closes we decided to send all three of our scenes to the render farm and just leave it over night. Hopefuly fingures crossed it al l goes ok ill report friday to see it it fails or succeeds.

I see changes

From the very begining our first idea we had for the kitchen was to have it set at night where the moonlight will gaze through the window and will cast a shadow around the kitchen. The only source of light from this scene will be from the candles and the moon itslef. One good we had for the moon light was to have dust particles in the air. The next phase of the kitchen was the tom and jerry theme, this i liked the best as it did achieve the theme we were after. The third and last phase we have now chosen and we are going to stick with will be more of a realistic scene. This one is taken from a new york apartment at sunset. Below will be a comparison shot between all the stages we went through on the kitchen.

Render complete

FINALLY render has completed and i think i made a bad decision about letting it render on local instead of render far. Altogether the time it took to render all 950 frames was 17 hours and this was left over night. I heard Same renderd the same amount of frames on the render farm, he had to wait about max 2 hourse for his pending staus to change but after that it renderd 1000 frames in an hour and a half. So at the moment i have imported my renderd scene into Adobe AfterEffecsts and letting it render.

Fisrt attemp at final render

Yesterday was the day we decided it was time to render, after discussing that we were not going to be using the cockroach in any of our scene due to difficulties with the camera and animating all three of us decided that we would produce a fly through of the kitchen instead. After the animating of the camera was complete i started to render my final version of the scene to the public drive with out using the render farm. The reason for not using render farm personally is because i have been hearing a lot of people complaining with the rendered outcome, i decided i would just render it out the normal way.

The total number of frames my scene has is 900 and i have left it to render from yesterday around 9pm. While i am writing this blog ma scene is still rendering but probably has another hour to go. Next post will be on render completion.

My roles, contribution and development

Nearing the end of the team project i have finished all my sections of assigned, here is a list of my involvement to the team.


MODELLING

• Chessdraw
• Shelf
• Sink draw
• Chair
• Table
• Sink cupbaord
• Kitchen interior
• Fisrt Prototype Cockroach
• Broom stick & Bucket
• Plates
• Calendar
• Chopping board & Knife
• kettle
• Bread
  
• Door
• Poster

RIGGING

• Prototype cockroach rig

ANIMATING

• Water flow sink
• Cupboard door
• Broom
• Door
• Microwave
• Washing machine

TEXTURING

• Contribution to texturing

PARTICLES

• Water particle