This whole business is really coming to a close — though winding down is not the term I would apply to the current situation.  I’m rendering a shot right now, which claims it will take another 3 minutes.  That would mean about 6 minutes to render the shot, which would make it the shortest render of the day.  I’ve been working since noon (it’s current 8:30), with only a dinner break, and yet I have a small number of shots complete because each one has been taking around 25 minutes to do.  That’s the trouble, I suppose, of doing green screen compositing inside a large 3D environment solely created inside After Effects.

Things have been going pretty well during the last week.  I got the Dungeon Painting scene completely redone, and it looks pretty much how I envisioned it before we even shot, so I’m proud of that.  I’ll post about it next week.  It was an arduous, hair thinning process that involved me re-learning LISP, and only for step 2.

I’ve only got about 5 or so shots left to do before I can call this thing done, though  they aren’t going to be particularly simple.  Mostly having to do with morphing fog.  All needs to be done tomorrow night.  Plus, I have to get a screener off to the USA Film Festival by Tuesday, which was a poorly chosen date on their part, since Adam and I are making the final cut Tuesday night, but the DVD needs to be postmarked before then.  So, they’re going to get a hybrid cut.  I am excited about that festival, though, since Dudley won its first award there 3 years ago.

Render’s done, so I guess I better get back to it.

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