This week was the most important week for our group work, we had to finish everything before the final compositing, as well as rendering tests. On Tuesday of this week I spoke to the head animator for Scene 1 – Yuanjie Lei – and I decided that the shots for Scene 1 were preliminary shots that could not be used in the final production, which required a lot of communication and discussion between me and the animator. But now we had no more time to discuss it, so I suggested that Lei and I meet offline to decide on the shots and animation content.
After Wednesday’s discussion, we split the one-shot scene 1 into two shots and edited them together in a montage. This ensured a coherent story and reduced the workload for the animators. I also added a lot of movement detail and adjustments to the camera to follow the coin and the character, and also used a binding relationship to ensure the camera followed.
We tried to use the school’s render farm to render the scenes, but it failed. After trying it out we were able to render the scenes locally on the school’s computer very quickly (about 20 minutes to render a scene), which was an acceptable amount of time. We also ended up synchronising the rendering video with the group responsible for the painting part of the animation which I think will give them a better grasp of the painting colours.