SCAD x Harbor Picture | Collaboration Project | SANM 560 - Week 04

This week we suffered many technical issues when we tried to put together everything we had created in the previous weeks. Such as, the environment assets can't render when we migrate them using BluePrint; the sequencer always unlink the actor when we load the new level; the multi-user editing function in Unreal doesn't work properly as they should, and some shader won't work correctly when it in the new model.

So the main progress that we have is to solve these problems. But I also made a mistake when I was working on the lighting part of the shot. I hadn't cleared the storyboard when we did the presentation the previous week. In the storyboard, we used to design the first 3 shots in studio lights only, and capture those reflections and refractions on the bottle just like how it shows on our light reference. As the result, we have use much of our time last week to explore studio light.

Lighting Reference

Test Rendering we have

StoryBoard

But in the Previsualization video that we showed last week, we didn't show that part clearly, which brings huge confusion among us and the professors.

Previsualization video last week

Previsualization we did this week

As we can see that there is a huge jump and gap there, which can hardly seems as in same aesthetic as what it shows last week. So we did many adjustments based on the feedback, and tried to get last weeks aesthetic back.

Here is the first change that we made:

New Version of the Previsualization

But as we can see that, the overall color tone in the video to too purple and saturated. And we have suffered a technique issue when we tried to make the sky less purple and saturated. We have tried our best to made a new version, and here is less saturated version that we have:

Less Saturated Version

Presentation Version

And for the next week, we are going do dig more into the lighting, and explore how the sky would effects the ground. Here are some examples that Professor Bridget helped us found.