SCAD x Harbor Collaboration Course: Week 4

Feedback

Molly (Harbor): 

• Remove shots 4, 7 and 8

• Use led volume to transition between environments (fade)

• Put glitter in theater shots

Kyle (Harbor):

• Practical set props, shoes, and human

• CG shoe replacement as a possibility for leg shots

• Simply stair shot (cut?)

• 2d crowd with dark lighting

Overall Feedback:

• Simplify

• Bring focus in on the shoes

To Do

Team Overall

• Cut down on unnecessary shots

• Prepare Unreal Engine environments for LED Volume shooting

• Acquire props and resources for shooting dates

Personal

• Continue adjusting spreading fx for shot 02

  • Feedback from Professor Fowler:

    • Ensure design does not get overshadowed by spreading

    • Incorporate sparkles throughout entirety of effect

    • Adjust timing and movement to be less linear

• Create stage decal for Yejin based off of the spreading design

• Add the art-deco inspired design fx to the curtain

Saturday, Feb 1st

Spreading FX

Latest render with adjusted animation and sparkles

Previous version

Timing / Motion:

New timing + sparkles / without flattening effect

New timing with the flattening effect

Customized controls for keyframing animation

Sparkles:

To create the source for the sparkles, I am now isolating the edges of the spreading design using a Cd attribute transfer and delaying the geo animation by a frame. Then I am using an attribute wrangle to delete any point with the transferred color.

• Allows for more precise sourcing of the geos' edges

• Less heavy than a boolean and more accurate than a group by bounding region

Point velocity settings

The sparkles movement are now calculated by a point velocity node, where as before it was through pop wind and pop attract nodes.

• More precise

• Easier to accurately adjust

• Gives the appearance of the sparkles wrapping around the lines as they spread out

Curtain FX

For the theater far shot, we are adding a moving design to the curtain.

While the design is not yet finalized, I drafted the system for this effect using Houdinis pyro spread system as a base because:

• Using keyframes and carves would be excessive with a larger design like this

• Allows for easy randomization

• Allows flexibility with the design as it develops

The design is 2D and to be used in a shader, yet I am still creating it in Houdini for flexibility.

Mockup provided to Yejin to be tested in Unreal Engine

Friday, Jan 31st

Stage Decal

Theater layout and lighting by Yejin

Sourced the initial spreading design and used it to create a decal for the theater

Decal for top of theater