Timelapse: Modeling the BROIL restaurant (Patreon)

Hey hey!! I've been working on a bunch of stuff, but gotten a little behind on posting about it here. Mostly working on editing for the Dynamo Dream episode. I'm SO close to picture lock, and once the edit's locked I can send it off to the sound team :D  Editing is hard, though. I'm kind of having to "find the scene" in the edit, which it turns out is a thing I don't enjoy at all. Okay well maybe a little. But I much prefer having the edit in my head before we even shoot the scene, so I can just snag the bits we need and make sure we get all of that as good as possible, instead of just shooting coverage and hoping I can make it work.

Anyways!

I wanted a little scene to kind of showcase the new rigged/photoscanned characters I just finished (available to the Tier 7 folks! (though I suspect I'll post one for everyone tomorrow, too, because they're pretty darn fun)), so I made one this afternoon and snagged a screencapture as I went!  I'm seriously stoked about all of this- being able to pull of halfway decent CG people isn't really anything I ever thought I'd be able to do, so I'm a bit giddy. I'd figured I'd only really be able to use them in the extreme distance, but they hold up even for medium distance stuff!

For those curious, this scene more than most demonstrates how handy I find it to develop the lighting along with the modeling. I lay in lights before I even really have the scene blocked in.  

As with any screencapture, I recommend just scrubbing to the interesting bits (it's not particularly gripping cinema).  

0:08 - blocking it in
1:20 - laying in initial lighting
1:34 - stairs- my arch nemesis.
2:50 - quick texturing
3:20 - big pipe
3:55 - light fixture
4:20 - fluorescent bulb
8:45 - grill floor
11:00 - bead curtain
15:50 - neon sign
17:17 - menus
19:10 - cup modeling
21:32 - spinning fan blades
23:00 - droopy cables
24:35 - support cables
25:53 - burger time
26:51 - The Worst Napkin

Alright! Sleep time!