IDS 252: Topics for March 10, 12, & 14, Spring 2014

Warning: On Monday, Mar 10, we will vote on the stories - if absent, you will be assigned a story.

• Complete Lab 7: Story Development :

  • Monday: Pitch stories, vote, and create groups

• Overview of Lab 8: Animation Production

  • Wednesday: Pitch storyreels. Revise based on feedback. Look at reference material.
  • (see details below) Setup Maya Project folder. Create task and shot lists. Begin work on character, prop, and scene modeling.

• Be Prepared for Monday Crits: What will be expected:

  • Do not show up with the same storyreel you showed last time! Update storyreel to
    • Reflect feedback from class
    • Improve timing
    • Refine camera angles
    • Refine cuts, shots, etc
    • Reflect new information based on your research
  • Discuss your background research! Dig deeper into your stories - watch king kong, read all the variations of rapunzel, watch the movie Tangled, read about steroids, how do boys play, what happens during battle at sea, watch boxing fights, watch Cheers (or any bar scene show)
  • Show your Concept/Reference material
    • Gather pictures which could be example environments, e.g. cities, boxing rings, ships at sea, boy's rooms, towers, bars, apartments of poor, depressed people, clothing that gawky people wear, etc
    • Gather pictures of specific objects or characters
    • Gather picutres illustrating the look and feel - what is the color scheme, lighting scheme (color, contrast, etc), atmosphere, time of day, season, ....
  • Discuss Story check list.
  • We will do status reports - this will take 10 minutes of class time.

• Details:

  • Exchange contact information with members of your group, e.g. phone numbers, email addresses, etc.
  • Go through the story and the storyboards to make sure everyone is in agreement. Modify the story or storyboards, as needed.
  • Create a group subfolder on cs-render in the folder \IDS252Sp14\Lab8. Within this, create a Storyreel folder and a Reference subfolder
  • Assign each person in the group the task of collecting reference material for some part of the story.
  • Create the storyreel.
  • Create a tasklist. Review gantt chart for the schedule.
  • Create shotlist. At this stage the most important part is identifying the Scene#, Shot#, and Description. The other columns will initially have only approximate data.
  • Setup a Maya project folder for group - discuss organization.
  • Begin Character, prop, and scene modeling

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