Thesis: mental

And so it's on. Basically now other than the end scene where I am still having problem with getting the camera move to work, all my scenes are locked and it's pretty much all rendering from now on. I'm a little annoyed that I had to move my projects to maya 8.5 to render, the mental ray integration in 8 is just pack full of issues. It's not really that big of a deal having to move to 8.5, I just don't like upgrading software in the middle of a production, especially this late into the process.

Overall though it looks like it's working but it does look like I will not make the soft deadline of April 10th, I'll be two scene short, so really it's a day or two worth of work so overall it means I'm actually ahead of schedule in terms of CG work. I'd like to lock all CG work by Thursday April 12th and spend the rest of the time focusing on tweaking final composite and title work. This is one area I really want to spend a bit more time on, sure it's not the focus of the project, but I feel the overall packaging of the piece is important. It's quite exciting right now actually, things are looking good, sure I'd like to be further ahead, but overall progress is steady and solid.