Blog 12

during week 12 we focused on prepping the scenes for rendering, we needed to add the passes to each shot and fix the ambient occlusion to the scenes so we got on to doing that. I was in charge of fixing shots 5 and 6. I was also fixing the eyebrows for the girl to make sure they move with the face morphers, so I took the brows and applied the skin wrap modifier to them and they moved with the face perfectly. I had to redo the brows a couple of times but that was fixed the week prior. my instructor recommended that I push the eyebrow plane into the face so that the plane doesn't show in the render, we tried making it invisible in render but that hid the hair and fur on the plane as well. I did the same for the scalp as well. I took care of adding the characters into the scene and posing them as well, I had to merge the master file with my girl's file because she would get messed up when I imported her into the scene, I tried many other things before actually importing the scene into the girl's model. I had to do some research on how to animate CAT rigs as I only looked up how to make them, so I looked the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32op4Yeki3c to lean how to go about animating the rig, it's basically like making a library of poses and applying them later on in auto key. I used that to skin the character because we were running out of time so I skinned her based on the poses I needed in the film.