490a SP 03'

Dailies Meeting Notes: 4/3

 

Action Items:

 

Owner

Status

Assignment

Leads

Assigned

Each Lead - review timeline and assign work schedules to individual members

Shot Assignments

Assigned

Each Assignee - determine the action and what is he story for each shot - dependency on story reel

Ben

Assigned

Approve Eric’s Proplist and priority, Get designs from reference

Brendan

In progress

Add digital shot versions to story reel

Ginturn

Assigned

Scarecrow design to be done by EOD tomorrow (Th), concept art for priority props

Dan

Assigned

Link story reel to website and update shotlist / sequence list to match

YoungJi/Ginturn

Assigned

Composite Characters to background

FX Team

Team Members

Status

Current FX Assignment

Erik Curre - Team Lead

In Progress

Dust, Mud, Scarecrow's eye getting ripped out, Threads trailing from scarecrow's eye, Scarecrow's tethers

Jay Derus

In Progress

Cloth, Scarecrow ripping arm off

Arash Shiva

In Progress

Flying corn/hay particles, Swaying cornstalks, Hay sticking out of scarecrow, Cornstalks being destroyed by crows

Ben Nordstrom

In Progress

Water droplets

Chad Lyle

In Progress

Flocking behaviour, Cloth, Scarecrow ripping arm off

 

 

Updates:

 

Smartboard up and running

Brian McDonald will be in today at 12:30

Darrek at 12:30

Karen at 1:30 for referenhce

 

Meeting Notes: (Additional to Action Items)

 

Props:

Ben – Approve Eric’s prop list and assign work and priority

 

Storyboard:

Shot assignments – animatics and motion – Jay

Mike, Dave and Barbara will review 3:00pm

For assignments, determine what is the action and what is he story for each shot by EOD

Links on website not updated w/ current info. Use hard copy masters as reference for shotlist and sequence during interim

 

Timeline:

Crucial to planning.

Leads - need to review timeline and assign work schedules to individual members and have completed timelines priority and assignments for Fridays daily

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse490ca/CurrentQtr/final/Timeline.html

 

Modelers and Rigging: - Ben absent

Ginturn - Scarecrow design to be done by EOD tomorrow

Tomorrow 1 or 2 models of squirrel

Mouse needs rigging and mouth (may need blend shapes) – Darrek

Rigging proof of concept

 

Layout:

Fix a few camera views w/ Brian at 12:30

 

Motion and Animatics:

Jay – review fri shot descriptions and schedules w/ final shot numbers and camera

First Deadline Tuesday

Focus today on acting - Meeting w/ Karen 12:30-3:00

Brendan - Add digital shot versions to story reel

Dan - link to story reel to website

 

Shading and Lighting:

Kiera suggest dates and times for meeting with Mark Simon

Decisions of color and brightness w/ concept art

Derek will give baseline lighting to Marc

Marc verify 3d paint costs

 

Concept Art

Rain if so where and when?

Character to environment unification – composite chars to background

Color palette – shading – lighting

Color swaths on story reel

Ginturn - look through panels to see where sunflowers work and don’t work

New Squirrel scheme works 

 

Reference:

Makes sure we have reference for our priority shots

 

EFX:

Priority by shot assignments - covered

Issue with scarecrow cloth, test ahead of model