[ Posted by noncanonical on May 14th, 2007 1:50 AM ]...

This shot appears on a monitor in one panel of Episode 31, so it really didn't have to be this large. I just liked how it was came out and so went large.

I really like the reflections in the glass on the windows below Super-Aiko, and I confess I spent far too much time tweaking them. I tend to do almost no "post-processing" with PhotoShop and try to create these effects in the render. In this case I set up a building block in front of Super-Aiko, but outside of camera range, just to make the reflection. I had to adjust the glass, of course, and to make it look convincing had to vary the size and orientation of the unseen buildings, in the end they were tilted oddly.

There are lots of ways to do this after the render, probably a lot more efficient too, but for some reason I like to do my SFX in the camera, so to speak.