Collaboration: LOTR Skits Lighting

Lighting for my second skit: I had a point light to the left giving off the sunset and creating shadows and to the right was another point light which I made weak so it would give off enough light to make the darker side of the skit visible. The directional light was to give an overall weak-ish light. - Paris.

2 Point Lights and 1 Directional Light

For the first skit I only needed a directional light.

1 Directional Light

Collaboration: LOTR Skit 2 - Progress 2

I've managed to do the basic animation for this skit but it's not there yet. I think the timing needs a bit more work and I think that's where it will become more funny, at the moment it's too slow. Next steps: Speed up the shuffling and see how that looks and try and emphasise the tiredness more in the shuffle. Also I'm going to use soft selection to make the ground plane look more terrain-like.

I'm also struggling with lighting, I have placed a directional light (1) rotated the same direction as the sunset in the painting is but for some reason I can't get it to cast shadows. I have another directional light (2) cast on the sign and darker side of the scene just so the sign can be seen but that light has shadows turned off.

DL 1: 1 Intensity 0 Exposure - DL 2: 0.5 Intensity Exposure 3

DL 1: 1 Intensity 0 Exposure - DL 2: 0.7 Intensity Exposure 3

DL 1: 1 Intensity 0 Exposure - DL 2: 0.9 Intensity Exposure 3

DL 1: 1 Intensity 1 Exposure - DL 2: 0.9 Intensity Exposure 3

Collaboration: LOTR Skit 2 Progress 1

In this skit all the characters turn, to keep in theme with the shuffle I thought it'd be better to do more like a quick flick turn.

Collaboration: LOTR Skit 1 Animation Progress 2

Collaboration: LOTR Skit 1 Animation Progress 1

I'm finally getting there with the shuffle - bare in mind the feet will be covered by grass but can't show that in the playblast. Still need to animate other half of skit in addition to refining what I have so far such as make Frodo look like he's gliding less, fix Legolas's arm movements, facial movements and adding slight head movement to all the characters. - Paris

Collaboration: LOTR - Matte Painting 2

Matte Painting LOTR good and bad way - Speedpaint from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

-Ruth

Collaboration: LOTR Prop Models

Designs by Ruth, Models by Paris.

LOTR Legolas's Arrows and Arrow Bag

Hobbit Rucksack


Gandalf's Staff

Safe vs Death Sign

Free Eagle Rides Sign

Collaboration: Sign 2 (Version 2) "Likely Death" (Lord of the Rings)

-Ruth

Collaboration: Sign 1 (Version 2) "Free Eagle Rides" (Lord of the Rings)

-Ruth

Collaboration: Sign 2 "Likely Death" (Lord of the Rings)

-Ruth

Collaboration: Sign 1 "Free Eagle Rides" (Lord of the Rings)

-Ruth

Collaboration: Lord of the Rings 'The Free Ride' Set

Our sets will be mostly matte paintings rather than models, for the 'LOTR free eagles rides' skit, will be this with a sign (modelled) saying free rides with eagles next to it, the characters will shuffle up the grass (behind front plane).

Collaboration: Lord of the Rings Matte Painting 1

Matte painting timelapse for Lord of the Rings Video from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

The image is fairly dark at the moment. I can either go into photoshop and lighten the image up or when the layers go into Maya the lighting can be done in such a way it lights up the background as well as the characters, making them blend in better with the environment.

-Ruth

Collaboration: Props - Hobbits' Rucksacks (Lord of the Rings)

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Collaboration: Props - Flag (Harry Potter)

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Collaboration: Animatic V1 (No SFX)

Collaboration: Props - Arrows & Arrow Bag (Lord of the Rings)

-Ruth

Collaboration: Props - Gandalf's Staff (Lord of the Rings)

-Ruth

Collaboration: Lord of the Rings - "Eagle Heights" - Version 3 (Part 2)

-Ruth

Collaboration: Lord of the Rings - "Eagle Heights" - Version 3 (Part 1)

-Ruth