New Footage, Render settings and general catch up!

The project is now nearing the final run to the end with only 3 weeks to go. We've finally got 8 seconds of the final quality footage rendered which is the bottom video.

The video above is an example of how the track and animation is coming along. This is footage from about a week ago and has since been finalised with a few late nights. I've added the camera shake in post using "adobe aftereffects" to test it out, its a good basic starting point and adds a hell of a lot to the raw Maya footage. Jon's currently working on sounds and music so we can bring it all together for the final work.

The video above is a collection of the first final quality rendered footage from the garage scene. These shots use the mental ray renderer which gives a much better quality but take a fair bit longer to render out. The garage scene file is just being finished off today and so hopefully provided there's no more spanners in the works all assets should be finished by the end of the day. Leaving just the rendering, editing and DVD authoring left. 3 weeks left is going to be very, very tight but luckily we have 24 hour access in the labs at uni and i have a feeling we're going to need it!