Work In Progress
For this week, here is the CG exr that I received from my group CG artist, with all the AOVs passes that I need.
My goal for this shot is to merge this CG with a starry night background, and do some color correction with it.
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1st Version
All the passes allowed me to control my adjustment in pixel-details. According to out director, he d like to see a variety of leaves color and a lttle more bit of soften edges on my 1st render result.
Result
Therefore, here come my final adjustment for this shot, which you may see some of the leaves are yellowish, while others remained reddish.
This version still didn’t show the starry night background much, and personally I think this shot would be better to extend a few second more, to show the fog spread away, and a starry night appeared in the end.
Last but not least, I wish our CG artist would separate the different brunch of tree into different exr outputs, which can provide room for me as a compositor to have some creative input in this shot.
However, due to limited time provided, it is the best things I can work for it.
Also, some of the passes I didn’t use at all, which I think they did waste some rendering time and space. Personally, I d like to improve the communication between me and CG artist before pressing the render button.