Space Temple #17

I am currently working on the last shot, that I mentioned in my last post. Except strictly speaking its the penultimate shot, which fades to space. The shot of space will be from the intro which I still have to render and I have to build an exterior shot of the Space Temple. I'm looking forward to it but hope it isn't going to take too long. I still have to render the last shot this is just a test snapshot. It's the longest shot in the film and the longest shot I've done I think at over a minute.

Still lots of things to think about, I have another name to add to the credits after a friend lent me a couple of microphones and some recording gear. I am going to need to create the title which will be some kind of one off model, and lots of special effects to do when I've done the complete render. Then there's the last hurdle of sound.

I'm also starting to realise how much I will miss the film once it's finished, I thought I'd enjoy the end game, but I'm finding it difficult to let go of shots at the moment.

I hope to post up the exterior shots of the Space Temple in the next post once I'm done with this massive render.

Space Temple #16

Still working away. Haven't managed to post anything for a while. It's quite hard to find stuff to post in at the moment. There's lots of stuff rendered now, but as I'm going towards the end of the film most shots have Space Temple secrets that I dont want to give away in them.

There are 17 shots left to render of the total 84, on top of that there are 16 special effects that need to be delt with. Yes the end is in sight, has been for some time but everything seems to take longer than I expect. The Space Temple pod plants take ages to put together, depth map shadows also seem to need  constant attention. There is also sound which I keep thinking I've found someone else to take over, but so far it's always fallen through. It takes me ages to go through all the details everytime I approach someone new, so I think I'm just going to try and finish the film and sort out the sound last.

I'm working on environment for the last scene at the moment, although I'm not working on the last shot yet. The shot I'm currently working has a lot of the background for the final shot in it, so I'm checking both shots at the same time. It should be the last section of background I need to do. What I might do is empty all the characters out of the shot and just post up a render when it's done.