Sesshu

My favorite Graphic designer, Kenya Hara, designed poster of Sesshu's exhibition called "The Trip to Sesshu".
I was reading Hara's book called "Design of Design," and his thoughts about design inspired me a lot. In the book, he addressed about his design of World Exposition 2005 promo,which he used using illustrations in the "Honsozusetsu", a series of illustrated books of natural history in Edo period. And the book made me feel like to check out his works in website, and I found about the poster. It is just coincidence but great!!! Link

Music right

I have been searching for music since I have been back to Japan.
Which means I have to find the right management in Japanese way.
Usually most of music is managed by JASRAC (Japanese Society for Rights of Authors,Composers and Publishers) here is the site http://www.jasrac.or.jp/ejhp/index.htm
according to the site, it will not cost me that much unless I use music for long time.
I want to research about it more.

matte painting

I was working on Matte Painting over this week... It is getting there...
I also worked on test animation of brush strokes and inks in AE.

Who's done this

Christina showed me this cool movie last week.
http://www.youtube.com//player2.swf?video_id=LKFKxfL7tV4&l=469&t=OEgsToPDskK6kkSzKAGu95MvTqypeSvX
This looks done by 3D, so I cannot make look like this :( but I would like to refer to this, in terms of the "look".
Thanks Christina!!

3D modeling

The big file size issue of my modeling file is half solved by deleting warning nodes (Thank you Prof. Halbstein! It was my tower modeling.) So I spent time to clean up the files, and I didn't realize this takes that long...
I think whole "clean-up work" reduced the render time, but I think all the trees takes render time for a long, my computer may not be able to render mental ray... not sure...

For now I start camera movement experiments with animatic/sketchy(?) sound.
The piece I refer to camera movement is this Nike AD

3D issue

I am working on the final scean.(3D part)
This is really challenging for me to do 3D textureing and lighting so on...
First I had a trouble of lighting setting... But through help, it is getting there.-Thanks Roly.

But now I have a trouble of rendering mental ray... Maya crashed when I render it...

I will ask Stewart to solve the problem... but anyone have any idea??

Music

Here is what I decided.
I asked my friend to cut out the sound of voice from the music I liked.
For now, I will use it for animatic.
There might be instrumental version of the music but I cannot find it online.
I will try to find in Japan in two month. If I found it, that is it.

While I am looking for it, I will ask my friend to continue working on editing the music, so it will be kind of similar piece. This is second choice in case I cannot find instrumental version.

None of above works, I will find new music.

I cannot post revised animatic due to the size, so I will bring it in class.