VFX404 [WIP] - Cib

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Finished! One last WIP screen shot.

Here is the link to my submission: http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/vfx404-...it-t28011.html

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Link to final on Vimeo:

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So, to recap my project:

-I started with the idea of camera mapping one or two photos I would take and turing them in to a 3D scene of an-abandon town in a rainy drizzle.
-I had trouble finding a shot without many bare trees and bushes, so settled of one simple shot with the hope of finding another good shot the next week.
-The camera mapping of the shot was very simple, I "photo-shop-ed" the photo to make it looks wet and stormy.
-The fog was giving me a hard time due to the beta nature of my tool.
-Winter arrived with much snow and crushed any hope I had of getting another photo. So I extended my shot from 7 seconds to 15 seconds.
-I added rain and struggled with the glitching smoke simulator.
-I final find a work around for the fog and get some good smoke for the vent from the simulator.

End result? I am very happy to have anything submitted at all, but ultimately the result is not as strong a submission as I had planed, though I am happy that I pushed through and finished it and got a better result than I thought I might many times during the process.

I am looking forward to the next challenge where I can put a better leg forward deliver a better submission.

[vivapower]

where are the zombies??

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Right, the zombies. The challenge said to create an environment of miserable stormy weather that the un-dead would love to live in, so I decided to focus on the weather and environment rather than the zombies (not being a fan of zombies myself). I had thought I might add some human-esc shadows in this shot or maybe some distant figures in a wider shot but was never to sure if that would reck my feel of abandonment or not. Ultimately, I ran out of time, so nothing made it in.

[vivapower]

good luck mate...