I've been working on allot of different areas of this project. From the beginning to the end I've worked on all kinds of posts and I feel that I've taken part in the whole progress. This has given me more experience in a lot of different parts of the project and I now know where I want and don't want to work with again. I thought I would make this post about which parts of the project I've participated in and tell a little about my experience with this.
Assembling a team:
I really enjoyed part. Trying to convince talented people to join our project was a challenge, but also a lot of fun. In the beginning I was skeptical to let some people join because I didn't have any work experience with these people and did not know if they where up to the challenge. It turns out skeptical for no reason. All the team members managed to do their jobs and at an even higher level than I expected.
Project planning:
I did not have the main responsibility for this part, but I gave a lot my assistance. This really is a boring, but extremely important part of a successful project. Planning is Alfa Omega and I think my assistance really helped the creation of a well thought out plan.
Lighting & rendering:
As I stated in earlier posts I like technical tasks. You could say that lighting and rendering is an artistic process, but I've learned that in this kind of production, with the mix of live footage and the 3d animation, it's really the live footage that decidedness the lighting and the post production that decides the style. The process was easy; I matched the daylight system to the current live action shot and added matte shadow proxies, then I rendered all the images to the OpenEXR format to have full control in the compositing stage.
Compositing:
I didn't work alone on the compositing of this project, and it's hard to say who was in charge. I felt I learn a lot from this part of the project and this is something I'm going to dig even further into after the project. I wrote a post earlier on this part alone that you can find some posts below. I also worked on other small parts of the project like workflow management and in-group communication but I think I have mention the parts where I did the most work above.