Milestone 8: Lighting and Rendering

Discussion date: May 31. Please note that all submission material is due the morning before at 8am.

General Description

In this milestone, you will produce final lighting, render your short and edit it at full quality. This submission is the final one and you will be graded on this.

You are to render your movie at least as large as 854 by 480 resolution (or equivalent size for your aspect ratio) at the highest quality for the Maya renderer and with full lighting. Your final submission should include sound; please note that we only require the sound necessary for storytelling and nothing more (but you are welcome to add more if you have the rights for it). You should submit either an AVI or Quicktime file.

Note: If you would like to keep working on the project after the milestone, feel free to do so and drop the results in the "postproduction directory". I will not grade that.

Submission Material

Place the following content under your group UNIX account in /net/da/cs42/[groupName]/milestones/08-lighting-rendering.

• [required] Maya files for the animated scenes; name these files "shot##.mb".
• [required] one video with the whole animation; name this file "FINAL.mov". Please compress using H.264 in Quicktime.
• [optional] Powerpoint presentation contaning a discussion of anything you'd like us to know about how the project went. A chronology, some funny facts, some cool/weird shots that did not make it in, tehnical and workflow issues, group dynamics, a behind the scene thing. Anything is fair.

It is the responsibility of the group presenter to have materials turned in on time. Notify the instructor in advance if someone else is running late or taking responsibility.