Small fixes

I didn't get home until about 7:30PM last night, and then had dinner. Started working on the movie at about 8:30PM.

All I really did was go over the renders from the day before and fix up a few small things.

The night shots in Scene 11 were still too grainy. I messed with the levels some more, and then tried a different denoiser that seems to have worked better. I also added some "film grain" back into the shots so that there would be a uniform amount of fine grain in the shot, instead of some small grain and some big clumpy stuff that is left over after the denoiser process. It seems to look much better now.

There were some other minor color corrections that needed to be made, and also a shot that had been film-looked incorrectly. I hadn't specified After Effects to not deinterlace this shot (which is does by default), so it was double-deinterlaced by After Effects and the film motion plugin, which made it look really jerky.

Started rendering at about 10:30PM. Didn't get a chance to look at the footage this morning, but to be honest, I'm pretty burned out on this segment, and if it still doesn't look right I'm just going to leave it for later and move on to "Mother In-Law Zombie".

I haven't decided whether to go to the networking event at Gardel's tonight. Judging by their menu and the 360-degree quicktime on their website, it seems like a fancy restaurant, and I'm not sure if I feel like getting dressed up tonight. I guess I'll see how much energy I have left when I get home from work.

Ryan