Speakeasy Ingress-Progress
Added 2022-07-11 22:00:23 +0000 UTCWe've all been pretty excited about how the speakeasy is looking in the comp process. It's awaiting a few more lighting tweaks and some atmospheric hazy smoke, but this is the almost-final version.
There's a full size video version here, since it gets crunched pretty badly in GIF format.
There's also a video of the image below, featuring the multitude of steps it took to get to this stage.
The #6 Compositing step is abbreviated to Animation and Background, but it's really more involved than that. A whole lot of ambient lighting, color adjustment, finagling shadow tone and density, atmospherics and effects, highlights and things of that nature go into it as well.
Storyboard by Kelly Turnbull
Rough animation by Fable Siegel
Cleanup by Alex Harrier
Comp by Matt Pichette
Layout by Newt
Background art by Frog!
Comments
U mean lifting them up :D
communist kitten
2022-07-14 16:31:46 +0000 UTCThe background characters are distance models - they are a bit lighter on line weight and details like whiskers and pin-stripes. They also have simpler lighting drawn onto them. The animation is vector art, so the animators can zoom in and detail them out without restraint, but lots of detail tends to just muddle things that are small within a scene. Lower detail actually makes it easier to discern the character overall, as it mimics the way our eyes naturally perceive things in the distance.
Tracy Butler
2022-07-14 06:00:53 +0000 UTCthis is so, so, so good. i'm super excited to see the film when it's complete- and i'm dragging several people down with me :))
Katie (kfrances)
2022-07-13 05:27:29 +0000 UTCLooks really good.
Carl Strojny
2022-07-12 19:30:31 +0000 UTCNICE (though I have to admit Niantic + Craftar has tainted the word "ingress" for me)
Minzoku Bokumetsu
2022-07-12 04:00:27 +0000 UTCI love! The animation on her tail is so extra and I am here for it💜
Nova
2022-07-12 03:10:59 +0000 UTCShe’s beautiful
communist kitten
2022-07-12 02:28:41 +0000 UTCKeep up the great work team!
blackdragonflower
2022-07-12 00:11:55 +0000 UTCThis is so amazing to see! The characters in the distance, are they drawn full size and composited in smaller or are they drawn to scale? I’m just curious if you have to use different line weight to make it look right?
2022-07-11 23:03:06 +0000 UTCY’all!!!!! This looks GREAT! So excited for the progress y’all are making!!!! *excited gif*
Keri Horn
2022-07-11 22:05:11 +0000 UTCIt looks amazing!!!
Nelly Galan
2022-07-11 22:03:45 +0000 UTC
