Environment: Downtown Orlando, with Star Wars characters

[Shaykai]

great job. The lighting and specularity needs a little work (the guys seem to bright), but it was a good piece. I also think you could have dirtied up the textures a little bit, but since i think your main focus was the composit, you did a great job. Also, the explosion was fantastic! great work man.

Shaykai

[Concept4]

Thanks for the comment. :)
Lighting in this scene was very basic. We were having problems with shadows. That killed a lot of the time we had to tweak the whole lighting scheme. I would have loved to spend more time on it. Being due at the end of the week and all the compositing work that needs to be done was a clear message saying "lighting looks great." lol.
:)
--Concept4

[Stahlberg]

The walkcycle on the robots could be better, for instance I think they should swing their centers of gravity slightly from side to side with each step. Also, when a fake CG cast shadow crosses a real cast shadow (for instance a robot shadow intersecting a tree shadow) it shouldn't add up to a darker shadow, just sort of merge and keep the same original darkness. But otherwise I agree compositing and explosion very well done!

[victor throe]

whats the best technique for not getting a multiple effect on the shadows

or is just paint them out, the technique

[dax3d]

Thank you for your critiques. I also agree about the texturing and the walk cycle. We had an unfortunate accident with the textures on the droids. A fellow student textured them for us (looked good), but then someone erased them from her account. She didn't have time to redo the textures.

Mike did the droid walk cycle, but we hadn't had character animation class yet, so no matter how hard he tried he couldn't get it to look right.

Ronnie and I might do a new version with those corrections, because we liked what we had done in a weeks worth of time.

thanks again

[phreakage27]

Dax and company...

You know that I think your project was top notch...especially for the time allotted...I hope that you go back and tweak some of the things that were mentioned above and throw this bad-boy on your reel...

Come one people...this diserves more than 4 posts...it's only a 10 second animation...CHECK IT OUT!!!

Good luck to you guys...

[dax3d]

Thanks Mike,

We might fix and tweak some things, but since we were told to keep this type of stuff off of our demo reels, maybe not.

I would like to fix some stuff just for my own personal satisfaction.

thanks
Dax

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