Project Blog | Megan McKay

One more thing!

I forgot to mention in the bi-weekly update: the music in the first scene that you can hear in that video (link to the post here) is some...

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Mar 14, 20211 min read

Bi-Weekly Update

The last couple weeks have been busy! (I say that like it’s a new development, when in reality, every week is busy.) I have been working...

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Mar 13, 20211 min read

Bi-Weekly Update

This update is a little late, but there's a lot going on! Sandra has had less work to do on our film, so she has been helping out another...

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Mar 2, 20212 min read

Bi-Weekly Update

The last two weeks have been busy! Ryan is working on the rigging for our characters. Allison and Sandra have been texturing and working...

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Feb 12, 20211 min read

Bi-Weekly Update

There is a lot to juggle for this short film -- in hindsight, we probably took on too ambitious a project for such a small group. One...

Megan

Jan 29, 20212 min read

Spring Semester Is Upon Us

With the arrival of spring semester comes the realization that I did not update this project blog once! What a lost opportunity! However,...

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Jan 21, 20211 min read

Winter Holiday

Fall Semester is finished! But the film is not. Allison, Ryan, Sandra, and I have all decided to continue working throughout the break....

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Dec 8, 20201 min read

End of the Semester Presentations

Whew! It's been an exciting and exhausting semester! Today was class presentations where we showed off the entirety of the work we've...

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Dec 4, 20201 min read

Weekly Update

Today was both stressful and informative. My group met for hours today, trying to see where our next steps will be and determining what...

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Nov 20, 20201 min read

We did it!!

No, we did not finish the entire short film already. Sorry to disappoint. But we did finish one of our major milestones! We needed to...

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Nov 13, 20201 min read

Weekly Update (and a sneak peek!)

I promised you a sneak peek! Here's our character, alive and moving!

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Nov 4, 20201 min read

Weekly Update

I have been forced to take time off! First I was having WiFi trouble. Then I had VPN trouble. After that, my right thumb and wrist...

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Oct 30, 20201 min read

Weekly Update

I have worked out the fire effects for all the candles as well as the fire in the fireplace for the first scene of our short! Allison and...

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Oct 22, 20201 min read

On FIRE!

I have figured out how to light all the candles in the first scene! And how to comp them together with a render sequence from Maya!...

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Oct 16, 20201 min read

Weekly Update

With the animatic finished, I have turned my attention to the special effects needed for the first scene: fire. Dead End Job needs to...

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Oct 9, 20201 min read

Start up the band!

My dad has been working on some original music for our short! We don't know if we will use his work in the end, but so far he has created...

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Oct 5, 20201 min read

Weekly Update

The animatic was due yesterday!!! And I am exhausted!!! Here is the "finished" product. Naturally, things can, and probably will, change...

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Oct 3, 20201 min read

Weekly Update

So Sandra has switched over from modeling all our assets to now texturing all our assets! She was pretty new to Substance Painter, and...

Megan

Sep 26, 20201 min read

Weekly Update

Yesterday, we had our Individual Faculty Reviews to turn in. Normally, these would be private meetings between the teachers and the...

Megan

Sep 19, 20201 min read

Weekly Update...sort of

My WiFi has been very...temperamental this last week. It has been extremely difficult to work on anything and I haven't been able to make...

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Sep 12, 20201 min read

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