HAHAHA… yeah you’re pretty spot on with all of that.
I wanted the clouds to be moving quickly but it doesn’t match up very well when we get to a more somewhat serene scene at the end.
Also, yes her head got cut off… I needed to quickly get this finished to show my admin what I could do as i learned to put all this together. They wanted to see what we might do at the camp in a quick little clip. They dug it and now I can move onto refining what I’m doing. SO, things like the top of her head wouldn’t be left as is. I actually reshot the scene because the first time I had the light too dim and I ended up going back in and filming RAW.
I do need to work on my mask. I think I’ll spend a bit more time with After Effects because it seems to be able to make that green screen more clean.
At this point I’m trying to keep things looking good but not weighing down the work in the production since the laptops I’ll be running for myself and the camp aren’t horrible but they have 16gb of ram, an Nvidia 1060 and 2.2 ghz proc. I do have SSDs on each but they are setup in concert with an HDD. SSD is only 128 and gets filled pretty quick. May have to see about running things from the SSD either way.
That being said, I strayed from Niagara. The fire wasn’t the best one I could chosen and I wasn’t completely happy with it. I did find a library of explosions and fire in EXR format that I can use so I might do that in the future.
Thanks again, all really good feedback.