Test Render

The Arbor and fence are a little to dark, but Aaron and I were trying to get the depth pass to work for depth of field

Playing With Matches

I did actually literally light a few matches for this one. Still not 100% happy here - I think the flame might be a little long. Also, still trying to figure out how to get the flame to dynamically follow the match. That's my next step.

chimney smoke

Technical Rendering - Matte Passes

I found a script that make it easier to divide objects into mattes... Its taking a long time due the amount of research I had to do, and how I have to test everything... Long story short, I dont have much to show other than, my failures at using the matte script... Im getting outlines of the matte for some reason

Animation Status

As it stands right now:

Act 1: final clean up needed on 4 scenes
Act 2: final clean up needed on 3 scenes
Act 3: final clean up needed on 1 scene.

Water effects