Specialist Study 2- Part 9 Lighting and Ncloth

With the animation close to be completed, I then needed help on lighting my scene. I then asked the lower years L5s to help me on this. I asked them to experiment as much as possible on the lighting and the colour of the background and to use three point lighting.

The results which they showed me was quite interesting and I really liked the fact that one of the L5s was focused on the variables of the lighting i.e making the light more softer and the background colours.

L5 - Tony's work

 The other L5s was then experimenting more on the colours of the lights where it was more experimental and went to cover a broad range. This was useful, as I was then able to see what worked or not.

L5 Brad's Work

After seeing the result of the lighting work which they produced, I was then keen on them lighting up the scene and I could then save it as the masterfile. We got some really good results and I was really happy with how it looked so far. The bonus was that the lighting below, had a very theatre vibe towards it therefore solving the colour scheme problem which I had been dreading to figure out from the previous weeks.

Final Light render

Now that I had animated more or less all of the character so far, I thought that it would be best to finally approach the Ncloth. I was in for a long painful process. The ncloth simply wouldn't work. I had to then figure out as to why it wasn't working, why that the previous month I had worked on the Ncloth it worked and that it wasn't working now. I then reviewed many of the tutorials again and looked through my notes again and again. 

It works!

I was more or less going to break down as to why it wasn't working. Never the less, I continued pushing myself forward and think of a solution to make the Ncloth work. I then finally had a breakthrough after the two days I was working on. This however meant that I had to reduce some of the timing of the animation which was kind of bad news, but it worked.