Sunday, August 21, 2011

Master's Research Project

Concussions - Seeing the Invisible Injury from Paul F Kelly on Vimeo.



The total project from inception to completion took approximately 676 work hours and 188 render hours. (I separate these figures because once you launch your Maya render you go off and do something else).

BACKGROUND (pre-production) ~85 hrs
Reading articles, collecting references, writing proposal, surgical observation, emailing researchers, meetings

PRODUCTION ~ 571 hrs
Treatment & Script - 23 hrs
Storyboard - 33 hrs
2D Animatic - 44 hrs
3D Animatic - 95 hrs
Animation - 86 hrs
Dynamics - 17 hrs
Modeling - 180 hrs
Lighting, Shading, texturing - 37 hrs
Render trouble-shooting - 21 hrs
Compositing - 35 hrs

RENDERING ~ 188 hrs
Sequence 2 (Anatomical review): 85 hrs
Sequence 3 (Brain Deformation): 60 hrs
Sequence 4 (Axonal Injuries): 20 hrs
Sequence 5 (Summary): 23 hrs

POST-PRODUCTION (editing & revisions) ~20 hrs

Tuesday, August 9, 2011