We decided to cheat the hardest shot of the film today. It sounds bad but with the amount of time we have left and the endless file problems its the only way.
Orginally Jed was to spin around with the floor polisher as if he was ballroom dancing with a woman. I made a start on the key poses however the file continued to crash making it almost impossible to make progress. After two days of struggling and the animation looking like a stumbling drunk I asked Alec whether we could get away with him being just a whirling blur, almost like the tazmanian devil. It sounded stupid but considering the shot only lasts a second and a half and its supposed to represent Jed at his most extreme we decided to test it out.
We did a test animation of the rig simply rotating around at a hundred miles per hour across a distance and did a batch render. Nothing fancy just the model, one light, and a few textures to get an idea of how it could look. We then applied a directional blur to it in AE. The results were as follows...
Pleased with the results and realising that to actually animate each movement would take days we decided to go with it. It's still going to tell the story and its going to save time. All I have to do now is make sure the release pose is animated well, which I started this afternoon. Heres the progress...
Meanwhile I believe we're behind on rendering and composting so I'm going to try and help Simon in anyway possible.
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