BA Film Blog: Panning Shot/Canopy Establishing Shot Finalised

Finally finished the Jungle Environment! And its completely ready to render! The rendering schedule that Rob and I disscussed says that we have to be renderng the jungle by tomorrow night, so a day early isnt so bad! This section was hard to nail down, my methods for creating the panning shot and establishing shot worked really well, but they still needed finishing off. So Myself, Rob and Jenny sat down this evening and decided to get it done and out of the way. The tracking camera and bushes were already created by me last week, Jenny had finished her background painting and set up more of the alpha channeled planes to create the canopy, the only thing needed was to light the canopy and tweak areas in the painting using photoshop. We worked on Rob's computer and disscussed possible colours for the day to night transition part, added trees and extra mountains to the background painting (to create depth), dulled down the foggy areas and placed it into the edit. I thought the day to night transition could be done in photoshop, but Rob worked out how to key the colour changes in Premier Pro. The final colours used for the night shot were referenced from my colour tests/montages created in pre-production. The render pics below detail the final rendered panning shot and the day to night canopy establishing shot that we just finalised:

Render Shot from Panning Camera - Lighting finalised by Rob and Myself, Explorer runs into the distance as camera pans upwards through dense canopy.

(Focal Length 30, Widescreen 16:9, Resolution 1024 x 576)

Render Shot from Panning Camera - Lighting finalised by Rob and Myself, shot of leaf detail as camera starts to move out of the canopy, camera pans upwards and stop to establish temple.

(Focal Length 30, Widescreen 16:9, Resolution 1024 x 576)