We started the drawing process, and it’s epic!

First of all, from now on this progress blog is no longer in Dutch, as we would also like the international community to be able to follow our progress.

Making 3D scenes with Blender

The director in action

Bijschrift toevoegen

The second week of the post production was dominated by the editing process. This is the second time we are in the editing room. In November the first part of the editing process was already done ( interview part ) this time we put the blue screen footage into it. We also started the drawing process: three shots were finished this week, which includes about 120 frames (eight frames per second)

The drawing days are very intensive. Drawing one frame, including the post process with the 3D background, color correction and the transfer to the editing room, takes about 17 minutes.

We started with the hardest shots to be able to estimate our approach.The reason these shots are so hard is because there is a lot of movement in the camerawork. First of all, we had to draw all 78 images for the first shot, after that we started to track the shots in blender. Putting these two layers together was a bit hard, but it worked!

There was a problem with the size of the frames. When using the TIFF format, each frame was around 12 MB when we started drawing. After finishing the layer they were about 40 MB, which is way too large, so we had to compress te files.

Next week a shot breakdown

Next week we want to finish four new shots, so that’s a lot of drawing and blender tracking work.

If you like the project then follow this blog! I think I’ll post some cool tracking shots for the people who want to try it themselves. Also the blender 3D scenes will be available. I might make a tutorial of the drawing process if I am able to find some time.

Now working on the last 3D scene called 'The dead mars'

The 3D scene in Blender

work in progress