Tuesday 8 December 2015

Final cinematic

I added a few little effects to the cinematic to try and make it look a little better. After getting some feedback on the cinematic the main issue was the blurry name on the side of the shuttle, to fix this I decided to increase the light intensity and re render the shuttle shots, I then lightened the clip a little and sharpened the image to make the A.Lawson 3D easier to read. I did have to re do the motion blur as the new shot didn't have any but this was not a problem. I also decided to add a subtle film grain effect which really does improve the look of the show, even subtlety. I then decided to tweak the colour balance to give it a slightly blue tint which I thought looked quite nice. I am slightly disappointed in how the cinematic looks quite blurry, I can't tell if it is the depth of field blur or the rendering but it is slightly disappointing to see.
Speaking of the whole project I am pleased with how it has turned out. I think the switch from Maya rendering to UE4 was a good idea even though it brought along a whole new set of issues I never managed to solve in engine but did in post processing. If I were to re do this project I would take the week I wasted trying to animate an emissive map in UE4 and spend a lot longer on the high poly version of my ship by putting in much finer details like the panel gaps and hull lights so they wouldn't pixelate like they have done in the texture files. Aside from that I believe that my project has gone really quite well despite the hiccups from the animation of the ship and emissive maps and the lighting from the Maya project breaking the day I decided to change from Maya to UE4 but all of these had work arounds, mostly in After Effects, so in the long run they didn't prove too much of a problem and apart from them I never really encountered any real problems that couldn't be solved with either some experimentation or a tutorial and so the project ran smoothly and it was finished on time and to a standard I'm very happy with.

Final cinematic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbvcnmHcqgo

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