{"id":28,"date":"2007-11-11T18:31:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T23:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebon.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/11\/return-to-start\/"},"modified":"2007-11-11T18:38:40","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T23:38:40","slug":"return-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebon.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/11\/return-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two more shots done, two more checkboxes checked. (Shot 3 was left on the cutting room floor a while back.) Up until a few days ago, my mood regarding this pair of shots was just as gloomy as last time. I&#8217;d taken over a month to turn around a mere 15-second sequence, and shot 2, a tight closeup of a hand, looked awful. It highlighted numerous poor modeling and rigging choices made two years ago, and there was no way to fix them now&mdash;not without a complete rebuild of the hands.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I did what I could, creating a new pose slider for the thumb, re-weighting the wrist and reworking the webbing between the fingers to fix an annoying pop on the pinky caused by a five-point patch. It was a slow process requiring countless test renders, but in the end the little changes made a big difference. The final result&#8217;s still pretty bland, as shots go, but that&#8217;s a welcome improvement over &#8220;wince-inducing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ebon.org\/images\/forForums\/Shots_1-2-4_720p.mov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ebon.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/shot-2.jpg\" alt=\"Shot 2\" border=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>View movie: <a href=\"https:\/\/ebon.org\/images\/forForums\/Shots_1-2-4_720p.mov\">Shots 1-2 + 4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shot 1 held few surprises animation-wise, just a lot of layers to deal with, but I did try to work the gradients and blooms in the compositing stage. This shot is probably among the best so far, coloring-wise.<\/p>\n<p>I may try to do shot 6 next. Might as well hit all the dripping-liquid effects in one go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two more shots done, two more checkboxes checked. (Shot 3 was left on the cutting room floor a while back.) Up until a few days ago, my mood regarding this pair of shots was just as gloomy as last time. I&#8217;d taken over a month to turn around a mere 15-second sequence, and shot 2, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}