This week the team has been working on the second step of the animation for the ship and moon scenes. The book textures were completed. Also, the team reviewed the ship’s texture and some modifications will be done based on the feedback. The textures for some of the characters were refined.
The last two characters, the moon and the cloud were finished this week. Also we asked fellow ETCers to provide us with some filling assets for the cabin scene. We now have a set of objects that can be placed inside the captains cabin.
In the rigging area, the work this week was focused on finishing the facial rigs for the characters and importing the lip sync files into the animation. We did a couple of tests on the stardust effects using Nuke, but now we decided to create the effects using Maya’s nParticles.
We have been talking with the composer and reviewing the music he is creating. We will be able to have a completed soundtrack for softs presentation.
The promo videos were shot. We will upload these videos next week to the website.
The team will have an internal screening one week before softs screening in order to set up the priorities. After that we will concentrate our work in those priorities to start rendering next Thursday in preparations for softs.