10.00pm – I came to the office. I noticed that my co-worker Khabi is not around. After asking Jason, he told me that he has something to do at his college.
I continue working on my matte painting background. I search the net for suitable material and references.
About 12.45pm – I go out for Friday pray.
Around 2.40pm – I’m back at the office. I continue working on my background.
The re-construction of the scene background is more complex than I anticipated. Because of the viewing angle, it is so difficult to find suitable building to fit the scene. Plus, the building needs to look abandon. I found that by searching ‘Earthquake’ and ‘Demolition’ in Google brings up a few numbers of wrecked building pictures which is suitable for the abandon theme. However, as I said before, the view angles are critical to accomplish the job.
Before this I use a perfect looking skyscrapers and building, and mark a few burn and cracks to make it look abandon. It seems that this method is not too realistic and cartoonish.
Around 6.00pm – Sometimes when I get bored or when I out of idea, I came to my co-worker Jason desk to check out his work. He scene is far more advance. He use a particle system in 3Ds max to do a meteor effects. He then render out the animation and import them into After effects. He then composed the animation onto the scene.
His method gives me idea to put in some animation into my background scene. Our company has a collection of special effects video, such as smoke, explosion, fog/mist, blood and more. I decided to use a fire effects and put it onto my background scene. It looks like there is a pile of rubble that gets burned after being hit by a meteor fragments. The effects can’t be added in Photoshop, so after a few tweaks on the background, I then import it to After Effects. There, after I sets up the camera and the layers, I then put the fire effects.
Around 7.30pm – We dismissed.
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