Well the answer is yes to everything. I finished the video on Wednesday. I was pretty pleased with the end results. A few tweaks i would like to make here and there, but nothing major. The biggest issue i had when placing everything together and switching between Autodesk Combustion and Adobe Premiere Pro.
What surprised me here was Adobe Premiere cs3 does not have the blend modes like photoshop. So i couldn't multiply my AO to add the dirt. And combustion couldn't render out the sound. Which is why i had to use a combo of post software. But i couldn't believe that premiere didn't have blend mode options in. Shocking.
So in combustion i sorted out all the AOs and colours and saturated the videos a bit more then saved em out to be placed in premiere where i sorted out the change in camera angles and added the sound.
We now have an epilogue style extension in which we have been allowed to make such tweaks to give em that extra va va voom. (Although they not calling it an extension). I also need to do what they are calling a greyblast. Which is a stepped playblast with no textures, on the newly tweaked animation.
