TMNT Complete Episode Work/Image Thread

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Fixups Begin. I've never been happy with all my baxter shots. So, the few act one fixes that could be done are updating all the baxter images.




One of these is the newer model. Now, using the 'rest' feature of softimage, I only have to redoo these shots once with the new model. Now all I have to do when i make changes is export it, and boom, instant model update in the scene. no rework required if i like what ihave.
Will save alot of time.





Act 2 principal photograph was completed this week. more fine tuning coming, and then act 3 starting around december 1st. i want to get mostly done by new years.

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a few more minor act one fixes. quick run through of it today and i hope to finally be able to leave it be hind. everything MAJOR is fixed, it's just little things that bug me now.

I want to fully focus on fixing the major things wrong with act 2 now before fully starting on act three

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Nearing the end of the road.

I hope to have most of it finished by january. but still going much slower as I start to TRY to wind myself down into OTHER projects besides this one.

About ten more fixup shots for act two, and act 3 begins monday.

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some act 3 roughs

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not doing any animation, just setting up thefirst 2 minutes worth of backgrounds. that's half the work there.

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when you spend all day doing new buildings cause people start to remember the same ones.

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doing something long over due.

Reworking all buildings from The Big Blow Out circa 2012.

Deleting some, reworking from scratch others, modifying simply some others. so IHave a stable of reusable buildings so hopefully people don't notice the same ones.

the crop before


and a bit of the crop after seperated into big and small

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Halfway through act three setup shots.

finished and kept buildings.





new attempt at mirage turtle


old attempt at mirage turtle

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4 minute mark reached with just background setups done. 4 minutes left to go, then animation time.

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the project swings off into the sunset later this winter..




when you rebuild the same mansion three times cause the first two didn't look right.



try three not so bad.


two more small buildings added in with three more coming

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it took a month to get the first four minutes of backgrounds done. trying to get the next 4 minutes done a little quicker so i can focus on animation.

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So, we've spent the last month setting up all the background shots and elements needed to complete Act 3. with only one shot really finished with animation so far.

We've got 60 shots left to setup, and then it's time to delve fully into the animation. and, with any luck, end of february, begining of march, will see this project come to a close.....hard to believe it was started around 2010 with test shots and that I've had the patience to come this far.



My updated small army of NYC buildings

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all the last work done over the last month...for anyone still left ;)
the end is fast approaching.

hard to believe this first started way back when xsi base was still around.

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the end is in sight..

the last minute of background shots should be reached by Sunday. and hopefully the rest done by the next weekend.
Then it's simply a matter of going back and doing the animation and final touches.

it's been a fun 10 year learning curve, but far too much work for one person. my nerves are shot and i need to get back to trying to relax

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closer to the end so starting to do a little more animation..