Week 4: Production Schedule

Hey guys, I've updated the production schedule for the week, obviously changed it because Matt has finished his modelling and rigging, Also I think we would like to spend a little longer on modelling considering how good the results are, and we can obviously spend less time on texturing now because we found it will be easier texturing on the large flat planes we have for the sides of the buildings. Anyways heres the plan.

Week 4: Summary

Hey guys, just thought I would re-cap this week. So basically we all kinda got into it. Matt is really cracking on with the cat model and animating, starting to test that out. Kanika is modelling the room and working on alot of the props for that section in there. As for me, Sam and Jeff we have all cracked on with the main modelling. Jeff is looking at that first street, Sam is on the courtyard and I'm looking at the alleyway. We are all kind of modelling nice little sections that we can all mix and match in different buildings so I think we will get alot of diversity this way.

We also brought together our storyboards at the beginning of the week and were really pleased with how it was working. Bar a few little camera angle niggles the actual narrative fitted together nicely and generally worked well for the minute we have to play with.

So on with the modelling for Week 5!

My blog is all working now guys www.samolyptik.blogspot.com

Basic 3frame cat run cycle

This is the first cat animation i made, its stepped with only 3 frames, and took about 20 mins, so after a couple o' weeks im feeling positive i can do sum nice stuff, and then its literally putting it into the environment.

Week 3: Production Schedule

I've whacked up this as a rough production schedule. It might be different to the one we put together as a group but I think we can use this until next week and then re-evaluate it then. Its got a section for each person and its very rough and sketchy at the moment. Also I've noted down the lectures we have on each of the days and a progress tracker for individual tasks on the right hand side. I'll post this on the main blog aswell as my own blog.

Also I have spent the afternoon updating my own blog if you wanna take a look!

Week 3 Meeting

Hey, so we met up after Barcelona on Wednesday and started getting our narrative sorted. Just thought I would re-cap that meeting here a little. Basically we decided on a rough map that we could use for our cat to go through and divided the rough layout into 5 sections.

Each person will b working to storyboard a separate section of the animation and we will bring these storyboards together at the start of Week 4 to check everything is matching up and making sense. Once we have got all this planning out of the way we will start assigning roles for the practical side so we all know what we are working on. Obviously Matt will be working on the cat and Sam will no doubt be working on the main terrain and environment space. it will then be down to me and Jeff to work on buildings and structures while I reckon Kanika will work with props and objects in the environment.

New Blog

Hey guys,
Being as we all need our own blogs I've made my own on here with the same design etc.

The URL is http://harveypostapocalyptik.blogspot.com/

If we all make a similar URL and just change ours names then it will all be generic. Then we just gotta link em up to one page!

Nice!

Harvey

Let's get the blog sorted!

We need to sort this out before we fill it up too much. Can we make it like Jared said so we all have our own individual blogs off the one home page thingy. I'll be honest, haven't got a clue how to do it so any volunteers *cough* Sam *cough*

Cheers dudes and dudettes

Harvey

First storyboard

This shows the first idea we had, with the pan out from the old lady in her room to the destroyed house and city.

Cat drawings

Cat stuff

Catty drawings

Before we get too far into this stuff, are we definately doing it right, cos i got this email:

"it will be one page for each team that links together the individual blogs for the team members. You will not be doing a group blog, it will be an individual blog that consists entirely of your individual contribution to the project. All the blogs will be reachable from a team page, which will have no blog content on it and functions only as a portal to the individual blogs."

in reference to the blog

Hmm, as much as I like the picture you've done I personally think a more Barcelona-city setting would have more of an impact. I know its cliche but fink of gears of war.

Spanish Village

Hi Guys, excuse the shoddy photoshop picture (its all on one layer, how unprofessional lol *hangs head in shame*)- Just a quick interpreation of a spanish village I saw on google. Obviously will have to wait to see what Barcelona will look like in person, but I was just showing you guys how i visualised 'Spain'. Obviously Barcelona is more modern than this in places- what with all its bars etc.. Was just showing a different option we could follow- a more traditional spanish village- let me know your thoughts- See you all tomoz anyways :)

Old Woman

OK im going to focus on the old woman. I am going to be looking at different types of artist for inspiration and their different styles to see if that can help me come up with more design ideas. If you have any artists in mind then please dont hesistate to tell me the more the better!!!!!

The times are wrong

Sam why are the times we posted our blogs wrong?

The Cat!

Rito, really late, but felt a compulsion to scroll this down now, I'm doing the cat, I'm watching "the aristocats", and taking pictures/drawing/using video camera to research feline behaviour, and ill possibly/probably design my own (with or without a bandana!) - gona bring in all my catty research for friday to try and convince you guys to have the cat as a running motif throughout the whole minute masterpiece!

POST APOCALYPTIK!

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