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Wip_Mom Model

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FX Dust Particle

As we move along this week I've been given the task to create the FX, dust particles in particular. I start researching the best way in creating this for this film. I go back to basics of what I know of scripting OSL. A major reference that I use is fundza.com because in a previous quarter I took a class that dealt with this. I know that most of it is more central around RenderMan but Arnold does have the capability of using the same language. I found a vimeo tutorial that is more geared toward the effect that we want to accomplish. https://vimeo.com/184711154 It's about dissolving an object to dust. That got me to think that I could write a script for it. However there is a disadvantage to this. One, if I write the script with an emission line and an opacity layer that we could animate, would I be able to guarantee it to work. Option two, I could create an image sequence that can work but it will only last as long as the sequence does as a set time. Like if it lasts fo...

Re-do of layout

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Knocked down the wall between the living room and the kitchen to open up the space.

Living Room Props

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These are some of the sketches that I did during the third week of classes for the environment props. Just some studies of different couches and tables that could be used. Though the first sketch was to test how the broken lamp would look like besides the couch.
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A crew member gave me a breakdown of the Mom character to model but the proportions were off. The structure of the body was not lining up so I ended up redrawing the character in its most basic shape to even begin on modeling the character. This is what I was given to start from.  Out from that I drew this sheet of shapes to realign some proportions and to understand how the body looks under the layer of clothing. 

More and more props

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I did a model in Zbrush of the rotary phone that we may use.  I did a few study sketches for the mirror and lamp again. Just testing out what other details that we could do.
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Some clothing sketches for the Mom character for my producer to help decide what type of clothing we want her to wear throughout this film.