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Weekly
Reports
EACH production group is required to send in a progress report every Sunday before midnight.
The group needs to select a person to collect the
information, format it and send it on. This
is required and will affect your grade.
The report needs:
o one general statement about how the group is doing,
o a list of each student that includes
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the student name,
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the tasks that they have been working on,
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what has been accomplished,
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how it moves the group closer to their
goals/mission, and
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what their plans are for the following week.
o The end of the report might indicate
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what
information they are waiting for from another group or groups,
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what that is,
and
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what they are
doing about it.
Three or four complete sentences should do.
Story / Reference / Concept Art Team Storyboard / Story Reel Animatics Group
Modeling / Rigging
Reference/ Concept Art Team [top] Supervisors: -Barbara Mones -Jesse Miller Personnel:
-Eliana Medina
-David Pierce
-Michael Lim
-Mike Hanson
Meeting times: Monday 3:30 PM
- We will present three possibilities
for the setting in class Tuesday
the 18th and put it to a vote.
- On Thursday the 20th we will present
rough characters to be evaluated
by everyone else.
- On Wednesday the 26th final characters
will be established, using
input gathered from our presentation on
the 20th and Saturday's story
session to be presented on Thursday the
27th.
- We will have clay characters built on
Monday the 31st and present
them on February 1st.
- Our final important step, the overall
look and feel of the short will
be worked out incrementally as we
complete our tasks and we plan to
have it done on February 7th.
This plan will allow a lot of leeway for
revising and changing things
after the fact. We feel the sooner we
have something down, the more we
can refine and perfect it as the quarter
goes on. This will give the
other groups what they need, so they can
get started quickly.
Storyboard / Story reel [top] Supervisors: -Barbara Mones -Irene Yi Group Members:
Kira Lehtomaki
Sopon Supamangmee
Adrien Ferrer
Michael Lim
Meeting Times: Monday 6 PM, Friday 3:30 PM
Our Goal: Finish the storyboard bible - complete
with thumbnails,
iterations of the storyboard, the motion
bible, and anything else that
would be useful.
Schedule: Adrain will com up the layout
for the story by the next story
session, we will also have a better idea
for what will be coming up after
that.
Groups:
Adrien - Layout man who is also the
liason to the animatics group
Kira, Michael, Sopon - main artist for the storyboard (detail and shading) Animatics Group [top] Supervisors: Barbara Mones Nick Poplaski Group Members:
Jon Fuchs
Geoff Amos
Ryan Sluman
Camden Davis
Meeting times: Tuesdays and
Thursdays, immediately after class.
Models:
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The modeling group will make their first set of models by January
24th.
These models will be
extremely basic, composed entirely out of
primitives, and parented into a simple skeleton. This will enable a
quick delivery, ensure a fast render time, and help us focus on timing
more than detailed character animation.
Calendar:
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January 13-January 24: Set schedules with other groups and start rough
models that we will not get from Modeling group.
January 24: Use materials from other groups to start animatic
February 15: First complete rough Animatic complete
February 15-March 14: Iteratively refine animatic based on updated
storyboards.
March 14: Complete final animatic
Ambassadors:
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Ryan - Story group
Camden - Modeling group
Jon - Concept Art group
Future progress report schedule:
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Jan 23: Ryan
Jan 30: Jon
Feb 6: Geoff
Feb 13: Camden
Feb 20: Ryan
Feb 27: Jon
Mar 6: Geoff
Mar 13: Camden
Questions for other groups still unanswered:
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When can we expect the first storyboards?
What scale (maya unit to real life) will we use in our animation?
Modeling / Rigging [top] Supervisors: Barbara Mones Dean Halford Group Members:
David Lewis
Matthew Milcic
Loren Merritt
Patrick Clark
Satria Krisnandi
Dane Barney
Meeting Times: TBA
Current as of 16-Jan.
Goals
1) Deliver standin models to animatics team with
sufficient detail and rigging to be used for animatics.
2) Deliver the following complete, unpainted models to the
class for signature shots:
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60 yr old main character
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80 yr old main character
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Bird (pigeon?)
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Adult male extra
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Adult female extra
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Child male extra
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Child female extra
3) Deliver full rigs and blend shapes on two main
characters as required by story
4) Deliver rig sufficient to meet story requirements for
birds
5) Deliver rigs for extras sufficient to meet story
requirements
6) Deliver enough variability on the extras so we get
realistic crowds
Deadlines
Jan 23rd -
Deliver rigged standin models to the animatics team
Mar 3rd -
Deliver complete rigged models to class for signature shots
Questions for Other Teams
Who's doing
shading?
What kind of
hair motion do we need? Do we
need dynamic hair, or can they just be fixed (like a beehive, etc.)?
What facial
expressions do we need?
Speech and
lip sync - do we need it? What are the requirements?
Cloth - what
kind of movement do we need here?
Do we need full dynamic cloth?
Maquettes -
Who's doing them?
Research questions
1)
What's the best way to manage and control the hairstyles, clothing (style and
color), and sizes of the passers-by models?
2) How
do we do morph targets for facial expressions?
3) How
does cloth work for the clothes? Investigate Maya Cloth.
4) For
the passers by, if we have scale parameters that modify height, etc. what
effect does that have on the animations?
How do
we have a single walk-cycle animation that can be applied to skeletons that
are different sizes?
5)
Flocking behavior for the birds? What requirements does this drive onto the
rigs?
6) How
are we going to paint our models? 3D-paint or textures with UV mapping? What
requirements does this drive onto the models?
We also need
to decide what surface type we'll be using for our models: polygons, NURBS,
or subd's
Tasks
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David L - Get research questions doled out via e-mail.
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Dane B - Ambasse (the act of being an ambassador) to the concept art
team
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David L (w/ Patrick C) - Research question #4
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Satria K (w/ Patrick C) - Research question #2
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Patrick C - Research question #1
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Matthew M - Research question #5
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Loren M - Research question #3, research question #6
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