Been Modeling and Writing!

Hey guys,

So, 2014 is here and it's time to get back to making a movie!

I've been working on the new script and every time I write a couple of scenes it inspires me to model something.

Last time, it was the observatory that discovers the meteor that gives everyone their powers.

This time, it's Thomas' bedroom.  Have a look...

So, first observation is that this is the cleanest 10 year old's bedroom in human history.  I must admit, I spent a lot of time, about four days, building this model.  The minute I thought I was done, I'd look at it and realize a 10 year old has a computer in his room.  So I built the monitors, table and desk chair.  Then I realized there's no T.V., so I built that.  Where's the remote control? So, I built that and put it on the end table. Then I noticed how empty the walls were so I made posters.

Posters.  That was a major decision. Although I'm building a fictitious world I don't want to spend a lot of time on creating every detail in that world, like movies and comic books for example. I don't want to spend a lot of time when it comes to things like that so I made the posters from the things that influence me, like Star Wars, Justice League, Spider Man and Doctor Who. It's so much quicker to find pics online to make posters as opposed to creating poster material from scratch.

The same is true for the cleanliness of Thomas' room.  In reality, a 10 year old's room never looks that nice. I could dirty it up, but that just means more time is spent on modeling and not making my movie. If I'm ever going to get this thing made, I'm going to need to stop worrying about every detail and just get to it. So, Thomas' room is pretty clean. The alley won't be very dirty. The details on the building may be a little less detailed. I'm going to have to live with these things if I'm ever going to start filming.

Also, more detail means more rendering times. Case in point, each image of this bedroom takes over five minutes to render. The images of the city I've posted take over 20 minutes to render. Considering there are 24 frames in each second, the bedroom scenes will take 2 hours to render one second of film. The city, 8 hours for one second of film!  Ugh!

For the city, since it is so large, I can get around this by using backdrops. The bedroom, however, is too small to do this. I'm going to have to put the characters in the room and render it. I'm really going to have to figure out a way to render these images faster, but that is for a later time.

Right now, I'm back to writing some more.

I'll let you know how that goes.

Later!