I connected with Matthew Ward, creator of Gearbox on linked in and sent him a link to our Hyperdoc. He was grateful I had reached out to him and loved the work we had all done. He asked me if there were any tutorials we used and so I pointed him to the tutorials page but said a lot of things were shared through word of mouth or from the professor. Other small things were just found scouring random forums from several years ago. We had a funny exchange with that: I was given e

We made a post-production task worksheet and assigned everyone with deadlines. We saw the first rounds of the rough cut as well as some of the VFX shots which are coming together. It was really interesting to see how it all came together on film. There were a couple continuity things that I missed which I was a bit bummed that I missed but nothing super crazy. I hope the color grading team can bring up the exposure, it felt way dark for me which I noticed on set too. I made s

While we finally had all our assets in the project and it got uploaded in time, preload day was a bit rocky to start. Our fps started at a whopping 14 and so we had to get to work deleting things. We deleted geometry in the back that couldn't be seen, deleted about half of our lights. Got rid of meshes that had overlapping transparencies, which was pretty much all the ivy. We significantly reduced the resolution of a lot of textures and various other little things here and th