Week 1 - Meeting the Team

We were able to get everyone together.. virtually of course..

It was super exciting being able to virtually see everyone together on Monday! Our director Kat and I wanted to get as much done over the summer so we could be ahead when Fall quarter started. Coming into the school year, we had started all of 3D character models, Elfis being pushed even further so that our animators could start using him as soon as possible. We had all of Act 1 storyboards complete, and almost all of Act 2. These are timed out and in the process of being created into an animatic using Storyboard Pro. We also had created a couple of 3D props such as the leaf boat, Elfis’s tree and the key. Throughout the last couple of weeks of summer more of the team had other assignments which delayed production yet, we were still further ahead than we had expected to get so it was perfectly fine.

The first week of class we were introduced to the members working on the film Break. Seeing their progress was incredible and inspiring. We started off the first week by assigning the modelers to finish up their 3D character models so that we can start getting them rigged if not this weekend, then in week 2. We were able to get storyboards back up and running so that our animatic can be put together to then create shots and start distributing to the animators.

The majority of the weekend and into the next week will be spent finalizing models, and texturing will be not far behind. As far as texturing goes, we created a simple skin texture to mimic the cartoonish animation feeling we are going far for Elfis and a mock up of how the trees/ environment will feel!