This week (April 29th – May 4th) The final mix for the sound effects, voices and music was finished. Following our final schedule, the team rendered and composited all the scenes in order to have the final version of the animation ready. During the BVW Festival, the team presented the short animation to a big crowd …Continue Reading
This week (April 22nd – 26th) After soft presentations, the team created a priority list from the feedback given by the faculty as well as all the fixes we wanted to include in the final version of the animation. This week the team’s effort concentrated in finishing the animation on the ship and moon scenes, …Continue Reading
This week (April 15th – 19th) This week the team has been preparing for soft presentation on Monday 22nd. We will be presenting the bluff and the cabin scenes fully rendered and the ship and moon scenes will be a playblast. To accomplish this goal the team has been working on: Finishing the textures of …Continue Reading
This week (April 8th – 12th) This week the team has been working on the second step of the animation for the ship and moon scenes. The book textures were completed. Also, the team reviewed the ship’s texture and some modifications will be done based on the feedback. The textures for some of the characters …Continue Reading
This week (April 1st – 5th) This week, Miss Merry’s texture was completed and applied to the 3D model. We finished modeling some assets like Windy, the ship, and many props used for the characters, such as a palette and brush for Miss Merry to paint with. The first layer of the animation was completed …Continue Reading
This week (March 25th – 29nd) This week most of the team members attended the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. Colin and Ricardo stayed on the ETC and they worked on the animatic, sound and lip sync. A new version of the animatic was released this week, the changes involved in this version …Continue Reading
This week (March 18th – 22nd) The team has been preparing for one of the most important deadlines in the semester, halves presentation. We wanted to show to the faculty, visitors and ETC students the current progress for the cabin scene. Colored versions of the characters were prepared, as well as a first layer of …Continue Reading
This week (February 25th – March 1st) The team reviewed the new storybook approach to the script. We weighed the risks and benefits of switching to this method of storytelling and have decided to go forward with the storybook concept. We still do not know if GKTW will prefer our new version of the script. …Continue Reading
This week (February 25th – March 1st) The team reviewed the new storybook approach to the script. We weighed out the risks and benefits of switching to this method of storytelling and have decided to go forward with the storybook concept. We still do not know if GKTW will prefer our new version of the …Continue Reading
This week (February 18th – 22nd) The concept art for the ship went through a series of changes throughout the week to make sure it is similar to the physical ship in the park. Since the animation is intended to be shown on the ship’s sails, we have to ensure our stylized ship is the …Continue Reading