Shot 3 Comped

Took the settings of the last couple of shots, then added haze and subtle grain, blurred the horizon, added a ramp to the sky, and crushed the blacks a little (composited in After Effects).



Shake has been discontinued, and the compositor that everyone is shifting to is Nuke, but for my film, I'm thinking of continuing with After Effects because I'm happy with these results and AE now handles .iff files, which is what I render out of Maya.

Scene 2 Composite Test

More Style Frames

Finally started to render today. Did a quick style frame for fun.

Before:



After Color Correction:

Update - a couple more iterations that I went through on the look:

~December 2008

Final image:

~May 2009

More Texturing

Added a sky, some trees and changed the gravel texture a little: