Her guys,

I have finished my midterm reel. Here is the link:

https://vimeo.com/47183736

My senior midterm review was last night and I was given some critique. The rest of this letter contains that critique so that you know what was already said and what my plans are for the next four and a half weeks (until my final review). The mountains and iceberg were made in Vue and the interior and exterior are done in modo. I was told to show wireframes for all of my shots.

Mountains shot:
•Show the layers/passes
•Make the trees smaller
•Render out planes for foreground, middle ground, background, then composite and animate to create parallaxing

Interior shot:
•Lights come on too slow
•Fix smoothing of objects
•Show close up shots of props
•Use depth passes
•Use some camera movement
•Split reflection, shadow, specular, etc. passes

For both the interior and exterior I was told to show the reference images (but label them as reference so that people are not confused). The iceberg shot is going to be trimmed off. Instead of working further on the iceberg I will be making this watch instead:

https://www.amazon.com/Akribos-XXIV-A.../dp/B0033WTDNW

I have watchmaker's screwdrivers, so I will be taking it apart and modeling all the little pieces and then animating it. If you have any critique, please be honest and tell me what I should do!