Weekly Update

The plan is post weekly updates about the Dead End Job short film project. Hopefully, I can keep up on it!

Both Ryan and Allison have been have technical difficulties related to their computers and being able to connect to Zoom, but they have done their best to work on what they can.

Allison has taken some advice from one of our instructors and is trying to get us more organized with a schedule so that we can make sure we don't fall behind.

Ryan is working on the sculpt of our main character.

Sandra, meanwhile, has been busting out 3D assets for us. She can model like the wind! She is truly an asset herself! So far she has been able to mesh well with the group. She is also learning very quickly what computer programs have changed in the 5 years since she has been in school. I have to admit I'm very impressed with her; I can't imagine that trying to make up for 5 years of computer development is easy.

I got some advice from our instructors and my team members and cut down the storyboard animatic, taking out one scene entirely and changing the ending a little.

I have also started work on the layout animatic, where I use simple shapes to block out the scenes in a 3D space, allowing us to place cameras where we need them and animate movements of characters, cameras, and objects. Already, I can see some timing stuff needs to be worked out. One thing our instructor Brett has suggested is to include sound effects and/or a soundtrack to help with the timing and the comedy. I plan on adding that in the next couple weeks.