Snow Fall - Diary & News

February 8th, 2004

I finally figured out a way to simulate the rotation of the ship when the pilot tries to control it with the attitude control thrusters! It was actually quite simple after I figured out a proper way to use the Dynamics module. You can check out the test animation from the test renders page.

The project is progressing slowly, only about 20 seconds of the final movie have been rendered. I am in the process of animating a 40-second clip that will be the intro for the movie.

October 6th, 2003

I just got my first ever lip sync clip rendered! It is downloadable from the test renders page. It is only 5 seconds in length and is nothing special, but it is a big step in this project of mine. It took three weekends to animate, and about 30000 "CineBenchHours" to render.

August 22nd, 2003

The teaser is released (see the Download page)! I created threads on the CGTalk, 3D Gladiators and StarWreck (in Finnish) forums about the teaser, and the teaser was well received all around! Nice!

August 20th, 2003

I sent queries about the music to 4 composers, got a reply from three, two of whom were interested in the project. Eventually I chose the music by Chris Holm for the teaser, which is now almost ready. I am in the process of setting up my web site on the new web host, after which I'll release the teaser!

July 25th, 2003

I am looking for composers willing to create original music for Snow Fall. I searched in www.mp3.com for musicians who create film music similar in style to Hans Zimmer. I found a few possible composers and sent them email to query their interest in working on Snow Fall.

July 24th, 2003

All animation clips for the teaser have been rendered! The teaser would be ready for release, except that it uses Hans Zimmer's music without permission. I'll need to find legal music for it before I can release it.

July 5th, 2003

I started working on a teaser for Snow Fall. I have a couple of animation clips that suit the teaser already rendered, but I need to render a couple more. I'll use an excerpt from "The Rock" soundtrack by Hans Zimmer so that I can test the rhythm and editing of the teaser.

June 28th, 2003

I am somewhat stuck with the damaged space ship model, so I decided to create WIP threads both on the CGTalk and on the 3D Gladiators forums, hoping that this would give me ideas and motivation to keep working on the ship.


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