Big update, final video

Scene is fully realised in unreal engine, have added music and tweaked within after effects to get my intended look.

Work Update

Just a quick update, I have now got everything pretty much ready and in the engine, I just now need to add a few more props and foliage to the fountain area. Then I will take it into after effects to add proper clouds and make it look nicer on the whole.

Current update

I feel I am working well as the end is quickly approching, I have experimented with some different camera angles following feedback from Rob, such as still shots rather than long, exaggerated camera shots which slow down the overall feel of the cinematic. I have also tried to focus more on the water fountain area rather than the rocks but also keeping the sense of the scale in the cinematic. I have also tried to incorporate some music which adds another level to the cinematic as a whole, I like the music at the moment however its got a little bit of beat to it so I will make sure that I get some feedback to see whether I need to pick something which has a more background feel to it. Overall its going well however I still have a load to finish off.

Update doors

I have taken out the spinning doors and am in the process of making it so that the doors are being blown out from the inside with a gust of air to match the theme of the whole scene. I have fiddled with the cameras and the doors to make them move correctly using the matinee, after feedback I have added to air so that it looks more lifelike, I was going to add this in post production in after effects however it looks quite good at the moment just doing it in unreal engine directly.

Changes

Some changes that I have made from the block-out is that I'm not going to have any meshes with destruction on such as the broken pillars as I want to recreate the scene to be as it was first built with a little foliage which has overgrown over the scene. I have changed this as I feel it doesn't add anything to the scene and it will let me concentrate on the foliage. Another change is that I have decided to add the up-side down buildings to the scene because I felt that on its own the scene felt little lonely without much in it, I personally like the outcome of putting the buildings into the scene for alpha as it really matches the references which also filling the scene making it feel a little more properly fleshed out.

Birds

As from feedback I have put some birds into my scene to try and get the sense of scale across to the audience, here shows the base model that I will use. I have kept the poly count as low as possible as the model will be seen from very far distance, at the moment I have put them in just a quick particle effect format so that I can get the gist of how they will move through the scene but for the final cinematic I will make them into a blueprint which will drive their movement in more accurately.

Catch-up

As of the presentation I am still trying to catch myself up so that I can make sure everything is done on time and to the highest standard. I am making sure that all my assets which I will use within the scene are UV'd and light mapped by the end of this week so that I can start the texturing process at the start of next week or over the weekend if I am able to do all the prep before then.