Regret | A Planetside Short Film
Regret - a Planetside Short Film. The final project on P4nda's youtube channel.
The hallway scene.
Hallway breakdown showing all major elements.
Diffuse breakdown of the hallway scene to maximise control in the compositing stage. Each light has a separate layer for direct control over colours without the need for rendering again.
"Hope" close up shot of the face. Primary focus in this shot was the skin shader.
Breakdown of the skin diffuse render layers.
The background wall.
The Maya output of the keypad shot composited. Tiled textures and blend maps are used to increase the fidelity of a low resolution mesh.
Breakdown of the layers in the keypad shot.
The shut down scene. The screen elements were seperated to allow for changes in post. Incandescence layers are used for the keyboard control.
Camera motion data exported from Maya was used to properly align the screen to the desk. The separation of the screen elements can be seen down the centre of the frame.
Over the shoulder shot showing the finer details on the soldiers armour. Blend maps and tiles textures were used to get the detail.
Render of the sit down shot.
A production timelapse showing the creation of the corridor scene and a render breakdown at the end.
Regret | A Planetside Short Film
Regret was a collaborative project with a team consisting of six artists. The film was a narrative attempting to humanise the soldiers in the Planetside universe and highlight the emotional struggle they face due to their immortality. The short film consisted of three visual styles; gameplay footage, animated concept art and 3D scenes rendered in Maya. My role on the project was the environmental, lighting and shader work on Maya.
Each shot was rendered with flexibility in post production in mind. As such the subject of each shot had separate render passes to the rest of the scene and the director had complete control of the look of the shot if desired. This ranged from allowing the tweaking of specular levels to replacing all the light colours in a scene.
Project director and Writer - P4nda
Animation/Motion Capture - Fatter Productions
3D/World Assets - Alexs189
Protagonist VA (Lieutenant Stephanie Hintz) - Ellie Underscore
Narration - Radlock
Original Score - Lucas King