Big Head Nom - Playblast

Chloe demonstrates to Space Hero how well she's able to nom him by turning into a huge floating head, oh dear!

Note there are a couple of effects here that aren't visible in this playblast, such as the sand dissolve effect, as well as another effect that removes her body past her neck when she turns large. Future Cake will have to take care of that in the final render! This is by the way the shot right before the first in-maw scene I showed a couple months ago. I actually animated this one first to have it out of the way going forward.

I roughly have about 2 - 3 smaller shots to animate before handing the next scene off to Disregard. For the end of this month I have another WIP full animation planned, but I do want to get these shots animated beforehand, so it could be delayed until the first days of March due to February being so short.

This preview will include the first scenes with Chloe of the meeting. Currently it's rendering its way through the small montage where she zaps through the room and I'm hoping to at least get to the part where she reads from the book rendering-wise.

I admittedly wish the render would be a bit further ahead, but I had to render the scene where she stepped down the stairs twice, as I had accidentally prepped an older version of the shot. The scene with the coins unfortunately dragged on quite a bit as well, which was due to a combined factors of physics simulation, her fully body being in the shot (fur), as well as that curtain taking up so much of the screen. Transparencies are super expensive with path tracing.

I'm fairly confident that the render will progress fairly fast from here, as all the super complicated scenes are now behind us! Once I'm done with the scene I'm currently animating, I'll also focus 100% on rendering, so there should be no more stalling with me having to split my attention between animating and render prep. I've also considered getting a second render license to render a couple of smaller shots on a second machine, which should speed the entire process up as well.

Here's hoping you enjoy this new playblast! The rooftop battle is getting close! :D