The last two weeks I was busy finalising the Sound effects with Sander who worked with us on countless projects before. I also built the compositing pipeline and all comp blend-files for the film in preparation for the final rendering stretch. Now I'm mostly fixing errors, helping Simon to run simulations. I'm trying to do some lighting tweaks here and there. Next week, we are prepping a chunk of the film (18 shots) to be rendered over the holiday break, wish us luck!

This week I made a setup for our solar flares. The suns are being sucked in by the black hole, so we needed a setup that integrates the manually animated flares and the volumetric render of the suns. This will still need some tweaking, but it's a great starting point so far.

It was a shorter week because of visiting the Breda Games Week event, but I managed to do some fx design and started giving the background creatures a texture painting pass!

For the most part I'm done with the planets, so I finally moved to paintovers and some leftover fx concepting again :)

This week I wrapped up the energy blob for now, created a setup to add energy trails to all (!) creatures in the film and started work on the FX for the star being sucked into the black hole, which will continue in the next week.

These days I'm mostly helping to integrate the effects setups into all the shots of the entire movie, fixing continuity issues and enhancing lighting and composition in certain shots. I've also uploaded a long overdue update of the edit here, which finally contains music and (WIP) sound effects! Beware of Spoilers!!