Editing

Following the animatic creation, I began to render out all of the high quality, 1080p renders that I now decided would be perfect for our intro. I also had all of the correct timings so it was just a matter or waiting (which was a long time). After that and throughout last week I was given the remaining pieces of puzzle. Basically, all the drawings and rotoscoped animation I needed to create the entire intro. With these pieces of footage I keyed out and deleted the backgrounds and arranged them on virtual pages using tea-stained paper we created in the first couple of weeks which I would move around in a smaller composition in After Effects to create the illusion of camera movement over a page.
I then took the 3D renders into Premiere Pro to arrange them in accordance to the rougher renders I had in the animatic.
To create the transitions between book and the museum I then took the created pages and the beginning or end of one of the 3D animations depending on what it was for and put in the correct transition we had storyboarded in the time already allocated. Each time I brought in the sequence from Premiere Pro into AE so I had the right markers in place for timings.
Following this I added the text created by Clodagh for the producer and director credits and used the font 'Trajan Pro' for the actor's/actress' names. These were very time consuming as I had to do alot of keyframing to track the pages and movements of the text in accordance with the footage. Now though, looking back I should have used the text when I was creating the pages as I would have taken a considerably less amount of time than it has.
At this stage the introduction is almost finished, all it requires is a little bit of fine tuning and colour correction and it should be ready to go tomorrow.

Here are some screen shots of the editing in progress:

Opening shot: book opening, created all in Cinema 4D

shot of text interacting within the book

High quality 3D render with colour correction applied