Renders

Here's a render of the moving water. It's closer to the water colour pencils style that Luisa showed me in another film so I hope she likes this look.

more paint using maya mental ray and particles

These animated water shots take a while to render so It'll take a while to render an animation. Looking better so far. I've textured it so that the more movement there is, the more white paint blobs appear where movement is, this helps ensure colours are always moving in most parts of the animation and that I really do capture the water style in 'The Old Man In The Sea'

Changing from 3D to 2D looking paint

Luisa/The Director liked the 3D water effects but mentioned that it needs to be closer to water colour. With hours of tweaking i've managed to change the 3D model to something that looks more hand drawn.

Water effects

I've been working using this tutorial on creating water http://www.mtmckinley.net/tut12.html. It's worked but i'm realising that it's hard to create water that looks like painted water colours this way.

Here's my test render.

Thinking about the look of the water

The water is important here, Luisa showed me an animation showing simple 2D planes which were watercoloured, scanned in and animated against each other as 3 layers in opposite directions to create the classic cartoon 2D movement of water but with a professional feel of water colours.

The water in the film looked like (but much simplier) water from 'The Old Man And The Sea'.



I like the water effects in this film, it's amazing how the ocean looks as it's all hand painted.

As we're experimenting with possible water styles at the moment centered around water colours, it would be great to try and create a realistic water colour look using Maya and some scanned images.

Animatic Version 2

Here's the animatic, 2nd version