I had some people ask about the video work, so I decided to put together a shot breakdown of the transformation.
The final shot contains a couple of key elements:
- All the layers are 3D, so I can use a custom camera. It's something I'm still learning/experimenting with. In retrospect, putting more Z-distance between the characters and the background would have given me more parallax movement, and made things more dynamic. The camera also could have done with a speed up in general.
- I speeded the transformation up; that actually really helped for me, a reminder that programmers always make their effects too slow, which then makes it harder to fool the ey
- I actually quite liked the cross-pan / peek at the nude Chloe, though as elsewhere it could really have been shortened a little.
Anyway, it's a step forward. Each time I hopefully get a little better.
Now go play Act IV; I had a fun time making it, hopefully you will have a fun time playing it.