The lamp

Decision

As you saw in my initial designs, I was going to include a lamp on the small table to add a bit more to the atmosphere in the room, but as I started experiment with textures and translucency etc. I decided it didn't fit with the overall dark looking room of emptiness and emotion.

Here is my experiment

As you can see it is quite distracting and I thought it might take away from the feel of the animation that I was striving for.

So I took away the light inside the lamp, and dulled the textures of the lamp just so it was barely visible in the scene.

This is a prime example of a crucial aspect of animation ... Trial and error.