Working...

Well right now I'm working on a couple things. Firstly, my lighting set up. In computer animation, to recreate the effect of light in the real world, I have to "light" my scene(s) with virtual lights. The actual placing of the lights is not hard to do. But it gets a little tricky setting them to create a convincing, natural, look. I thought I had this all squared away quite a bit ago, but when I added a stack off loose papers into the set, I realized that I had it wrong. The stack of papers, instead of looking like a pile of individual papers, just looked like a solid thick white shape. I've spent a lot of time today looking at other peoples lighting set ups and trying to fix mine. I've had a couple "breakthroughs" that didn't amount to much, but I'm pretty sure I'll have it worked out by tonight or tomorrow.

I'm also working on a book. A computer generated book, not a actual book. This also had some lighting issues which will hopefully fixed along with the papers, but the main issue is that I have to be able to animate pages turning. There a couple different ways the I can do this. I've tried two of them, with limited success. The first worked, but was tedious to set up, while the second was easier to set up, but didn't work that great. I'll probably revert to the first method, but I haven't totally decided yet.

Oh and also, I have dropped the first draft of the screenplay and am moving on the the second draft. This is is because I wrote myself into a corner with the first draft, and to resolve the story I realized I would have to go back and change stuff that I had already written, so to keep the process clean I thought it best to move on to the second draft. So thats pretty much where I am right now, but now I must leave my computer and go outside and weed. More to come soon.