Another week down, and another blog to write. At least this week has been different than last week. Last week so much was going on that that I hardly had time to think, let alone write a blog entry (which obviously I missed). Yet through all that I got an incredible amount done. This week has been just the opposite. Every time I sit down to work on this project something comes up. I had planned on coming home from work Friday to work on the film. Unfortunately work was hellish and I simply came home to crawl into bed. I figured I would start again on Saturday. Not a problem.
Saturday comes, and my wife wants to spend time with me before going to her parents. That's fine, I can spare a few hours. But then she gets the “day off” so that we can spend time together. Don't get me wrong, I love spending time with my wife, but I do have work to do. In the name of domestic tranquility – and everything she's been through last week – I spend the day with her and not the project. Not good, but what are you going to do?
Which brings us to Sunday. I have one other course, which occasionally I get homework for, and this was one of those weekends. I spent Sunday perfecting the look and techniques I'll be using for my Senior Capstone film. Which I will have a chance to make, if and only if I can get through Exit Strategy.
That brings us to Monday morning, wherein I find that I have overwritten several key files and spend three hours attempting to recover them – successfully – from my hard drive. Of course, then I have to stop and go to class to deliver the stuff I worked on Sunday, drive back in some nasty traffic, have a rushed dinner, and start working on Exit Strategy again. I start to animate a quick little sequence in After Effects for Hugh's face and it takes less than half and hour to complete. Hurray, I'm actually getting somewhere...
...no, no I'm not.
I spend the next hour and a half fighting with Maya over why it won't accept the image sequence I have rendered (and rendered, and rendered, and re-rendered, and....GAH!!!). Having searched and searched for an answer online, I finally notice something odd about the format of the file names that After Effects is putting out. They've got an underscore where a period should be. I change that, and everything works perfectly.
Awesome. I take a break from that, to render out some playblasts to start creating a working file for the team, and I start to see some oddities in the lengths of the shots we're setting up...
It never ends.
I'm going to post this, bang my head on the desk for a while, then get back to work. Until next time, stay tuned.
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