Lighting Tests

These are some of the newer envi­ron­ment light­ing tests for our short movie “Baran”. You can see the rest in the gallery.

Updates!

We’ve been very busy on this project and we haven’t had time to update our blog.

We’ll try and update more fre­quently in the next few days.

rigging woes!

Roshanak’s hair really gave us prob­lems until at the end we used tails for their ani­ma­tion. I found a post on XSI­Base that helped me over­come the issue.

Surf’s Up!

For you enthu­si­asts out there, there is a link posted on 185vfx.com to a pdf that is a Sig­graph paper on the mak­ing of the Surf’s Up documentary.

It is extremely inter­est­ing for those who want to have a clearer idea of what is going on behind the scenes of big pro­duc­tions and what pipelines they use

Surf’s Up!

For you enthu­si­asts out there, there is a link posted on 185vfx.com to a pdf that is a Sig­graph paper on the mak­ing of the Surf’s Up documentary.

It is extremely inter­est­ing for those who want to have a clearer idea of what is going on behind the scenes of big pro­duc­tions and what pipelines they use

rigging problems

Due to lack of time the main prob­lems we encoun­tered dur­ing the rig­ging and ani­ma­tion process were two main issues:

1– Cre­at­ing a solid enve­lope that would not break dur­ing the animation

2– Cre­at­ing believ­able move­ments for hair and clothings.

For the first one, our lead ani­ma­tor, Saman Khor­ram who was charged with the ani­ma­tion of the main char­ac­ter Roshank, decided to forgo the pri­mary rig and cre­ate one of his one which would be more sta­ble and easy to work with, and took care of the envelop­ing so that it wouldn’t cre­ate any prob­lems dur­ing animation.

Our other ani­ma­tor, Farhad Youssefi, decided to stay with the pri­mary rigs and ani­mated the father and the mother.