End of Semester Looms Ahead
- Megan
- Apr 17, 2020
- 1 min read
Updated: May 15, 2020
The end of the semester is coming in just a few short weeks and we are starting to feel the strain!
Our instructors gave us a list of things that must be done by the end of the semester:
Story must be in a place where all the beats are present.
Storyboards must be present to show staging, framing and beats. (experience teams see below)
All final character silhouettes must be completed.
All final character sketches must be completed.
Must have a proven pipeline for rigging, cloth and hair.
Each environment must have a final sketch and a light study.
The majority of visual effects must be tested and proven.
Our storyboard is thankfully finished, so we have numbers 1 and 2 done!
Allison is has finished our environment designs and is continuing work on our character designs and silhouettes. There are twice as many characters now compared to what we began with!
Ryan is finishing up the human character and his hair. Allison put together a quick example of his clothing since we are planning on rigging that with the character instead of simming it.
I am setting aside work on the layout animatic and focusing on coloring the environment designs and using the layouts to create lighting for each environment.
The main thing we have begun to worry about is the visual effects! We have examples of cloth effects (even without simming each character's clothing), fire, and ground destruction. But we haven't practically tested anything.
Since Allison was already working on the clothing, she is taking over the cloth and ground research. I will be looking into fire.

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