24/06/16 - Final compositing renders

Today I just finished up a few shots since the coloured animation files were ready. I just has to replace the footage, apply the layer effects to each animation and do a bit of colour correction to match them up with the rest of the shots.
I gave them to Patrick after that to put them in the final composition so everything will be done!!
I feel like I put so much into this animation, I helped out a lot with almost every aspect of it and I think it came out nicely.
First time being a director and I would love to do it again. Having creative authority over the style, the look and the mood of the animation.. it was a good experience and although it was quite difficult at times I would love to do it again. Perhaps with the next animation being only two mediums instead of three next time, incorporating live action into our animation would be the one thing that stood out the most. Maybe if the animation next time was all 3D but using 2D to do rough animations or some 2D effects would be fun to do. I would love to get more into shaders and rendering in 3D and creating nice looking characters. I would also like to practice 3D animation more.

23/06/16 - Compositing Progress

Over the past few days I have finished doing the compositing on shots 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 9-1, 14, 15, and 16. Patrick was in charge of Shot 12, 9-2, 4 and 11 and he is also doing the final compositing with sound.
I read through Phoenix's feedback notes and made some changes to the shots I worked on earlier.
We are almost finished! I am just waiting on Joseph to upload the coloured version of an animation for shot 9-1 and then I can put that into the composition tonight. Also just waiting on the finished animation for shot 10 from Raven.
There's not much left to do now, just final compositing tomorrow morning and then we are good to go!!!! YAAAAYYY!!!!!

19/06/16 - Compositing Progress

Worked on Shot 2, 3, 5 tonight adding various things to them from my notes.

On shot 2 - Just changed the background position a little, the colour on Hamish so it wasn't too saturated and masked out a shadow that was appearing on the greenscreen footage.
On shot 3 - Created the fade from the real world to the mirror world in the mirror. Had to mask out the mirror and animate the opacity of various effects added and the still frames of the backgrounds to create the effect.
I would like to know what my team mates think of it. Feedback would be great~

Shot 5 - Just replicated effects from similar shots so that it matches up.

18/06/16 - Shot 6 render with coloured animation + Shot 9 render progress

Updates Shot 6 with the coloured animation Joseph uploaded today, added glow to Elizabeth.

Worked on shot 9-1 adding same effects that I added to the other shots I worked on. 

17/06/16 - Shot 6 composition render with camera focus shift

I was playing around with the composition on shot 6 trying out some things to see what would look good and what works.
I added in the mirror frame with the newspaper to the foreground and also added the mirror erosion from my earlier tests to see how it would look, and it definitely adds good detail and depth to the mirror. After that I added some glow from the mirror world to the frame and newspaper, some colour corrections to the newspaper so that it looks lighter (before it is dark blue). I also played around with the colours in the mirror world, I duplicated the background and added a gaussian blur (24) and overlaid it.
Once I did that I thought to try out the camera focus shift effect, so I just added a gaussian blue effect to the separate layers for the animation and frame, and animated the effect.
This is what I came up with.  Any feedback and critiques would be appreciated thanks!