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WEEK 2, Sept 13 : 7 Days of Iteration

I kind of didn't really do iteration as much as just built up a more detailed scene in steps, I apologize for the fraud, but I wanted to try and develop an entire bg/ scene look.

On the first day, I sketched out an idea I had for a scene and began blocking it out in 3D. Most of the work here was just thinking about potential chase scenes and lighting and procrastinating. On the second day, I journeyed to Sleepy Hollow and spent the day there taking photos and hiking, which although didn't directly iterate/progress the scene, was useful for understanding the foliage and setting of the legend, even though I had already sort of mapped it out for this particular scene.

On the third day I found a model horse and imported my rigged drawing model guy to further detail the scene. The set up there was actually pretty quick, what I spent most of the time on was dialing in the lighting and enviroment volume as to get that sort of god ray look without blowing out the image.

On the fourth day, I added a lot of leafy green shrubbery inspired by my Wednesday trip. Although it's subtle this actually took like 2 hours. The main issue here is how tedious it is to set up redshift proxies. Over the summer I got a small library of realistic north American forest foliage models, but I had never actually used it. So I spent some time converting about half of the items into redshift proxies which I then imported into the scene and scattered about the ground and sort of hill wall thing the horse is riding beside. It definitely can use some work but right off the bat, I was a fan of the detail it brought to the floor, with the foggy layers of plants and leaves.

On day five I did an initial drawing based on the renders from the day before. Although I think it turned out pretty cool, it is not really feasible to animate and could use some further compositing.

On day six I tried doing a more simple drawing, but it looked a bit bland. I decided I would focus on proper designs and colors next week and just try and get the compositing down

On day seven I rendered out a few (I only stuck with the two shown here) versions of the isolated fog. I tried for a bit to understand redshift AOVs but after seeing most of the tutorial workflows going straight to real compositing software and not Clips Studio Paint or any other simple layered drawing software (which makes sense) I decided to just do what felt correct and isolate lighting elements and the environment to create the fog images. I then overlayed them with a few different blend modes and combinations to produce the above images, which make the character feel within the fog as opposed to on top of it, which I think helps the look a great deal. This week wasn't particularly rough or anything, but I am still settling into a finalized schedule for the semester, so I am hoping to be more productive next week now that I am aware of when I can work on this and when. I also won't be taking any full-day trips until the 27th when I plan to go up to the Hudson Valley/Highlands again.

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