Current BGs

So here is our comp of BG block ins that people brought in today. There is some good stuff, but we need to keep going for sure on these. It's going to be quite a challenge to make them all look consistent for next week.

My general comments are:

1. Need a more clearly defined focal area.
2. Need to strengthen the depth relationship between layers (ex. stronger foreground, mid ground, background)

Continue to work on your paintings - start to introduce texture. The soft round brush is great for block in, but if you use just that brush everything turns out flat.

To those who handed in: thank you!
To those who didn't: I want to see them tomorrow please. This is serious shit.

*NOTE* There is a PAINTING BLOCK INS folder on the server - please put them in there by 5:00pm tomorrow.

After Effects

Yo, I was just playing around in After Effects with some random images from google and here was the result. Man, it's such a powerful program - and I think that's why it's also so confusing - there are too many things you can do! I realize you can actually use AE to do what we are attempting in Maya.