My Giant Robot!

I originally intended to add photo-realistic visual effect shots to bring some of the kids ideas to life. For a variety of reasons, I'm planning to rethink this approach. For one, each child's imagination works differently - so why shouldn't each of their "dreamlands" look different too? And secondly, it's been almost four years and I need to finish this short film. Ha! So I think I can speed up the animation process a little by being more creative. Uh...and I quit my day job. Seriously. I'm committed to finishing this before the kids can drive to the premiere. Yikes.

So here's where I left off with Kendal's house robot. The blue/gray image shows the lighting pass in Mental Ray while the other shows a ROUGH composite of the textured house robot over the live action background plate. This is all about to change...