This is going to be a quick post on my progress with the short.  I’ve finished all of the human characters in the short now, the last of which was the teacher.  She’s unnamed for the time being, but she’s got such a small part it’s not really pertinent.  After the jump there’s a 360 of her in her chair and at her desk as well as some video examples of my grading process.

Here are some tests I did for grading the renders, I’m finding that I can get the image I want much easier by doing multipass renders at higher bit depths and then fixing the issues later in post.  Using the latitude of a 32 bit image when grading allows for a huge amount of wiggle room later in the workflow.  These are some of my tests: