Monthly Archives: February 2009
Near-Final Stills from the Film, Also The Pipeline is Pretty!
These are final, sans UI graphics.
Update, Post-Grad App
Graduate application stuff is out of my hands now. On Thursday, I filmed several insert shots – specifically the close-ups of hands interacting with the touch screen panels. I still need to shoot about six more close up shots, but … Continue reading
Two Shots Near-Finalled
Two cockpit shots are essentially ready to be finalled. I may incorperate swinging wires in the background to help sell the illusion that the ship is moving (and maybe add in a subtle bobbing camera move). I’m working on the … Continue reading
Cockpit Update
The conversion was technically done on Wednesday, but I’ve since massaged the lighting and texturing in Maya (now that I’ve actually had a couple of hours to play around with it). The result is below. There are still things that … Continue reading
Live Blogging the Lightwave to Maya Conversion
Feb 04 :: 2:24 AM Conversion done. As I had thought, re-applying the textures and surface settings took the most amount of time. There are also huge differences in the way Maya and Lightwave treat lights, so I had to … Continue reading
Additional UI Reference Materials
Here is a quick addition on the previous UI reference material. The additional reel contains specific examples of ship-status graphics that I like – they’re all from Star Trek and look dated, but I love the different decks of the … Continue reading