Nell the Narcoleptic 2

Been a while since posting Nell updates cos we’re so busy in the bat cave working. WE ARE NEARLY FINISHED! Just 3 more shots to animate… this is the last big one that’s nearly done :)

Nell’s signature.  We’ve exported this as a vector path and will import it into After Effects to make it appear as if a pen is writing it.

Ok, totally forgot about this trick.  If you have lots of unused (aka junk) nodes in your hypershade, just hold a right click on for example an empty area in the Materials tab, and select ‘Edit > Delete Unused Nodes’.

Scene10_Shot01 WIP 1 from Chilliboom Ltd on Vimeo.

First shot of the bomb sequence, WIP 1

A little script I found to add an object to a lattice that exists in your scene already:

Select the lattice, then the object.  Paste the following into the script editor, select all the code, and press numerical enter (that’s the enter by your keypad; the other big enter will add a new line but you want to execute the code):

string $selSet[] = `ls -sl`;

string $lattice = $selSet[0];

string $object = $selSet[1];

lattice -e -g $object $lattice;

Source: http://www.fuse-design.org/blog/tutorials-cg/how-to-maya-add-object-to-lattice-tutorial

Getting some trees and foliage in the environment surrounding Nell’s apartment

The “brave” souls of the SP E.O.D progress shot.

House across the road from Nell’s apartment

Woohoo!  Bomb guy 1 and 2 (which are the same essentially but one is scaled smaller) are rigged and ready for action!  Significant milestone: no more rigging for the rest of the project, woot!

Not sure if this is the only way to do it, but it’s a quick little hack that works a treat:

Select attribute you want to reorder by clicking on it in the channel box. In the channel box menu, goto edit > delete attributes.  Now hit ctrl+z (undo).  The attribute is undeleted and added at the bottom of the channel box list.

Bum gettin’ rendered

Audio Network

Straight forward music licensing… currently checking out potential soundtracks for Nell!

Scene04_Shot07_WIP.mov from Chilliboom Ltd on Vimeo.