16 Jan 2013

Week 51 – Grant application
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Hey everyone!

The last two weeks were rather busy since we had to complete everything that was missing for our grant application which is due january 18th. It’s a lot of paperwork, but we’re very proud of the result and believe we gave ourselves every chance to succeed. Cross your fingers for us, we should have the results somewhere in may!

For those who are curious, here’s what the package we’ll be dropping at their office tomorrow looks like!

Now, for today’s post, we prepared two images of the latest developments Thom and myself did on the film. First off, a frame of a new shot we never showed you before!

And next, a little pine tree test I’ve been working on. We’re trying to develop a very sketchy style where we can clearly see the paint strokes, something we see far too little in 3D (in our opinion!). Anyways, we’d like to hear your thoughts!

That’ll be it for this week! As always, thanks for being there, and see you next time!

2 Jan 2013

Week 49 – New year
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Happy new year everyone!

What better way to start 2013 than to unwrap this long-awaited package: the new cooling system for our main computer!

Exciting, isn’t it? Think again. After spending close to two hours trying to understand how to install the part in question, we had to watch helplessly as our computer opened perfectly, then randomly shut down, and THEN stopped booting altogether (except for occasionally reminding us that “an unrecoverable error has occured”).

So back to square one. We are still discussing with our provider what to do next, but we’ll make sure to tell you what’s up once we get the news!

As for our work on the film, we’re back as hyped as ever, and we promise you’ll see new shots as soon as we’re finished with our SODEC papers. Indeed, we thought we might as well start the new year trying to get a grant!

To be followed in the following months!

19 Dec 2012

Week 47 – Christmas
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What a year!

We had a certain idea of what was waiting for us with this project, but never did we anticipate it would be so hard. Or so rewarding!

Obviously, we would have prefered if our main computer didn’t die on us without warning. We also would have liked to be able to stay on schedule and actually be doing our last shots before leaving for the holidays. But things didn’t go exactly as planned. This project is just gigantic. It might very well be the most important thing we ever did.

But don’t worry, moral is at its best, and the project is now going at full speed. Now that every pre-prod element is completed, I’m finally able to help Carl with the animation. That means we now spend 100% of our time getting out shots while Thom is doing the lighting and compositing. During the last months, we fixed almost every single texture or render problem, found a visual style we like, and refined the animation style.

We don’t know exactly how long it will take before we can finish this film, but one thing is certain, we’ll do everything it takes to make it the best possible. And believe us, it’s gonna be worth it!

Since it is our last update before the holidays, we wanted to celebrate properly. It’s been a while since we showed you any new animation shots, so we thought it’d be the perfect moment to show you my first sequence, along with the very first shot featuring the little girl!

Happy holidays from the entire Le Gouffre team! Thank you infinitely for your support, and come back in 2013 for the latest developments on the film.

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