Friday, February 15, 2008

Milestone #2


This is my Gantt chart as of Tuesday night. I forgot to post it to my blog, though, but as it turned out that my milestone was postponed due to a snow day, I will be presenting tomorrow (Monday) anyways. I have more done than my chart states, though--more specifically, the voice acting is over and my animation is 99.9% done (just need to finish up a tiny bit of lip synching and fix the gravity field for the dirt so that it doesn't "float" down like it currently does). I might have it finished by tonight, except that I also need to work on a promotional poster.

My project has been tweaked again for a number of reasons (one being that it will take me less time and fewer headaches the new way...), and now instead of it switching from one style to another, it has become switching between different levels of "detail" within the 3D animation (wireframe mode on top, followed by a low-quality default light render, and then a hardware rendered low-quality version with scene lighting, and then finally the high-quality rendered version). In order for the viewer to see the higher quality versions, they will need to "dig" away at the lower quality versions. I'm still working out the details, but this would give me a lot more time to focus on the project, since I'm not spending all my time simply animating.

So anyways, this is what I've gotten completed since my last milestone:
  • Storyboards have been scanned to .pdf format, and can be found here.
  • Voice acting *finally* recorded.
  • Animation is nearly complete.
  • Sound effects search has begun.
What I still need to do:
  • Finish animation.
  • Render (yikes!).
  • Sound effects/foley work.
  • Editing.
  • Acquire an ambient music score.

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