More developments and a difficult choice

Since my last posting i have been working flat out to get the texturing and rendering sorted on all the 3d objects. Now i'm in the compositing stage for one of the shots and i am facing a dilemma. Do i color the shots to be set at Day or Night. I have tested both shots in both day and night colorings but i'm veering towards night more than day since it makes the 3d objects harder to distinguish from the environment and gives the overall video a mysterious look to it.

All of the 3d in each of the shots has been rendered in layers such as Diffuse, Shadow, Lighting, Reflection, etc. Below is a couple of the seperate layers from the interior shot:

Diffuse:



















Lighting:
















Shadow:



















Once all the elements were combined again in After Effects they were then desaturated, given some guassian blur and animated with the rest of scene using built in effects, rotoscoping, video footage and rendered image sequnces. Here are the two vfx shots in both day and night mode:

Day:

Night:

At the moment the night shot is more visually appealing and its more difficult to see imperfections on the night shot rather than the day shot.

In the next 3 days i will be re-filming one close up shot since the lighting does not work too well. But should have a new update in a few days.