I added two more movies to the inspiration page: Wall-e and Horton Hears a Who. It was interesting to see the uniform lighting throughout Horton compared to the different colors and temperatures in Cars and other Pixar work. I'm going to stop collecting references for now though. It's done me a lot of good to collect all that work and put it together for comparison and analysis, and it's given me a lot of ideas. But now it's time to get back to the task at hand.
Since I wasn't able to get started tonight until 9:00, I decided this would be a good time to redo my schedule and finally decide on a character. I did both. The schedule is aggressive but I have little choice at this point. I was able to simplify it to five lighting scenarios per environment and five for the character, which is going to be a snowman. I'm very happy with my choice. It's a relatively simple model and I was able to come up with five really cute ideas for lighting without too much trouble. And I like the fact that one uses the bathroom environment and one uses the car wash. I really hope I don't run out of time because I want to pull this off and do a really good job. I'm a little scared of the amount of time I have left, but I can't get discouraged. I just have to keep going and not stop for anything. Maybe not even for the fourth of July. Or my camping trip in a couple of weeks. But I'll play it by ear.
If I can get ahead on just one thing, I'll feel better. If I can finally finish modeling the bathroom I'll feel a lot better. I've given myself until the end of this coming weekend and that's it. I have to be done.
Since I wasn't able to get started tonight until 9:00, I decided this would be a good time to redo my schedule and finally decide on a character. I did both. The schedule is aggressive but I have little choice at this point. I was able to simplify it to five lighting scenarios per environment and five for the character, which is going to be a snowman. I'm very happy with my choice. It's a relatively simple model and I was able to come up with five really cute ideas for lighting without too much trouble. And I like the fact that one uses the bathroom environment and one uses the car wash. I really hope I don't run out of time because I want to pull this off and do a really good job. I'm a little scared of the amount of time I have left, but I can't get discouraged. I just have to keep going and not stop for anything. Maybe not even for the fourth of July. Or my camping trip in a couple of weeks. But I'll play it by ear.
If I can get ahead on just one thing, I'll feel better. If I can finally finish modeling the bathroom I'll feel a lot better. I've given myself until the end of this coming weekend and that's it. I have to be done.
