Welcome

Welcome to the blog for my film. As of now, the site has just been activated, so there's not that much information to be found as far as information. More will come in the following weeks and months. I'm very excited to get the ball rolling on production. Official Production doesn't start until January 2011, but I'm in the concept stage and will soon be moving on to early asset creation as this is a very asset heavy film. Here is a preliminary schedule:



March 2010-Start on Concept: Story, characters, environments, script, music, start lute model

June 2010-Finalize script, storyboard, main character designs, do preliminary recordings, finish lute model, start modeling two main characters

mid-July 2010-Finish Models on two main characters, finish "float" design, create Previz with pre-rigs of similar build and proxy geometry start rigging main characters, start models for two secondary characters, start modeling/texturing "float" assets, start texturing on two main characters.

September 2010-Finish rigs on main characters, finish secondary character models, finish main character textures, start r&d on "float" rig and troll rig, start texturing secondary characters, start rigging Caligula

November 2010-Finish Caligula rig, finish "float" assets, start troll rig, start "float" rig, record voices, start sound mix

January 2011-Finish troll rig, finish "float" rig, finalize all character textures, finalize/test all character/prop rigs


Winter Quarter 2011- Official production begins!

Senior Animation Project 1-

Week 1-Finish working sound mix, Start creating environment assets, start Previz with rigs
Week 2 end-finish previz animation with partial models
Week 3-finish environment models, start UVing environment assets, start texturing environment assets
Week 4-polish environment models, continue texturing
Week 5- Finalize Environment assets, review Previz, adjust camera angles, timing, and animation as needed
Week 6- Lock Camera, start final sound mix, start lighting, start animation
Week 7-Work
Week 8-Work
Week 9-Blocking 1
Week 10-Final sound mix,

Senior Animation Project 2-

Week 1-Animate/light
Week 2-Animate/light
Week 3- Blocking 2
Week 4 Animate/Light
Week 5-Blocking 3, start polish, finalize lighting
Week 6-Lock animation/lighting, start rendering, create playblast mix
Week 7- Finish practice playblast mix, render, start compositing completed renders
Week 8-Finish Rendering, composite, edit, do credits/packaging
End week 9-End official production, Finish Editing
Week 10-Wrap Production