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Final

I am pleased with my outcome, all things considered, I would much prefer if Arnold had rendered it correctly as it should, but that was through no fault of mine that it wasn't working and we could not fix it or see where the issue was to even fix it. A couple of issues went wrong in this render but I'm just glad that I have a render that is visible and correct to the most part. One of these issues is a blue light bulb can be seen poking through the rainbow wall, but is only visible in the mirror of the room and I cannot find the issue to fix it correctly, another issue is the chair legs in the fairy lights room poke through the floor despite having been corrected in this save, and a final issue is the lighting (most noticeable in the basement) where it seems to be a little glitchy, but again this is due to Arnold and how it was rendered, as well as a strip light not being rendered in the rainbow room for some reason.

I am happy and pleased with the editing, the brightness dropping on the second pass of the living room and then flashing to introduce Vecna and add a slightly darker theme. I am still very happy with how I managed to get Vecna to appear on the second go round, although it was not hard to do at all. The speed when the camera passes vecna also drops, I like the connotations this may have in link with the series and the character but also used this to give a longer look at him as previously I felt it rushed past him.

I am very happy with the music and think it lines up perfectly to what I wanted it to do, Kate Bush being the artist that saved Max originally from vecna in the show and becoming the song of the season.

I learnt a couple of things over this subject, such as glass and chrome settings and how to make wires, just to name a few.

Overall, I am very happy and pleased with my 'World of Delight', I chose to do stranger things sets as for me I really enjoy building rooms and sets in maya and also really enjoy stranger things, filling the world with things that I enjoy/ enjoy to do. I do wish that my rendering went smoother and had no issues like everyone else or at least issues that I could fix, but after a while was told to cut my losses and work with what I have got, and that I did.

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Audio Updated

To try and better fit the clip length as I wanted the words, the yellow and blue boxes, to line up with when the camera saw vecna, I messed around with the lengths of clips

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Colour corrected

This is the colour corrected version of my project, I like the outcome, though I am still pretty upset and annoyed that Arnold was not rendering it correctly to begin with. I also added flash as that is a staple of the powers in stranger things and with vecna being there it felt fitting to add.

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Audio

Original:

In order to keep the theme of my world the same I chose to go with the song of the newest season, Running up that Hill by Kate Bush, however I decided to go with a remix version as I felt I could work with and build it to fit my short video better as I could have more control over the instrumental to organise it

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Renders

Some final renders of the room, I am pleased with all of these but I think my favourite is still the fairy lights room as I love the lights and the colours, I just wish that the final render video could fully reflect these photos

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Render 3

Render three was the better one between the previous two despite some errors that had been fixed reappearing, such as the leg of the couch appearing through the floor

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Render 2

This was the render without the added lights, and it was too dark, I also realised after the render had been put together that the fairy lights had been deleted in order to see if the render time would go down or something. This meant I then had to add the lights back and then rerender and I felt like I had wasted time waiting for it to render due to it being unusable.

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Render 1 output

This is the first render of three, more flat lighting was added which cause the textures and colours to all appear flat, I think this is a good render to use to show off everything but it does not create the effect that I want and I feel that it does not do the work I have done correct justice.

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Update

Exr render being rerendered due to the lights having been hidden before rendering. Batch render colours are flat but has rendered correctly

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What should be rending v. What is coming out

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Curving the blanket down so it better sits on the sofa and moving the pillows

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Flicking through settings in order to try and find the render issue but still could not be found or fixed, instead we began to think of just colour correcting as closely we could in after effects.

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Working out time

My render started at 25 past 1 (pm) and by 3pm had rendered 38 frames. 520/38=19.74 19.74x1.35 hours = 19.74x95m 1875.3m/60m = 31.255 hours 1 day and 7.256 hours Will finish, roughly, on Saturday the 29th between 10 and 11 pm.

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Renders coming out dark

The renders that were being shown in Maya were not the ones that were coming out when either batch rendering or sequence rendering. After hours of work and and attempts this problem did not resolve and the renders were still not aligning like everyone else's were

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Goal render

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Organising workspace

In order to better fine errors I organised everything into files of which room it was in