Gunderson Update #1: Ready Steady Go!

Its the end of June and I've reached my first checkpoint towards a December completion of "Gunderson; An Xmas Noir".  (Should I keep calling this thing by the full name?  Seems a little long winded.)  Three sequences were on my schedule and I finished two and a half.  

Sequence #1 had 3 sets/scenes (Warehouse Lobby to the Warehouse to the Warehouse office), one large scale establishing shot with 10 extras and one big dialog scene.  XXX's voice over work here is really strong.  These scenes are complete though I may check back in a month or two to fix some minor quibbles.  Overall pretty happy with this sequence.  

Santa's Supply Chain Warehouse

Miss Brenda Lee!

Sequence #2 takes place on one set (the bar/nightclub), has 16 extras with 2 dialog scenes separated by a singing performance.  Overall I'm super happy with this one.  The performance worked out well and the set looks good (mishmash of Daz assets and Blender bits).  I used CC4 to create my extras all at less than 8K each.  This is a much better solution (though another export step in the character creation) than the old animated billboard one.

The one still in progress in the opening scene which takes place on a tram.  The script originally had the tram running through a lovely north pole exterior which then fades away when the tram power goes out.  Turns out the exterior is just a projection in the tram windows.  All of my north pole is underground and the tram is running through a dark tunnel.  I shot the exterior scene and it looked fine but found the fade to the tunnel was just unnecessarily confusing and decided to just scrap all the exterior shots and have the tram running through the tunnel from the start.  This part looks fine but I still need to figure out how to get the tram into a station...a work in progress that I'll come back to...

Generally I would say that I am on schedule but there are a few things I'm worried about.  First off I got the new Zelda game for my bday and I'm fully aware of the time sink involved there but I'm resigned to play the game.  Secondly my next set of work (3 more scenes due by end of September) involves the one action sequence in the project and I haven't even looked at available animations yet.  This is the only scene that really worries me.  But for now things are going well.  

Just a bit more work this week before I'm off on vacation.