Rendering and post-production

Having gotten most of the mechanics of animation and modeling worked out, this week I began mixing the audiotrack using Adobe Audition. I found some great websites for sound loops and FX.

http://freemusicarchive.org/

http://soundbible.com/

http://www.looperman.com/

Mixing the sound
Mixing the sound

Audition has a nice feature where you can add Markers to your timeline so you know when certain transitions or sound effects should occur.

Premiere video editing
Premiere video editing

I placed the previously rendered “glowing figure” scene into Premiere, and added sound effects. I also added the soundtrack from Audition.

I was able to get Maya’s Mental Ray render engine working after installing a service pack upgrade. This caused me to tweak the lighting a bit. I began to batch render a test sample. My laptop was able to batch render 120 frames in an hour 1/2. By my calculations, rendering the entire 1440 frames should take only 32 hours!

Underwater
Underwater
Under lily pad
Under lily pad
Before lighting tweak
Final scene

Still needs a few tweaks on audio, but making progress.