WEEK 6 VIVA

Welp. The first wave has come and gone. It was OK. Not good or great, but OK. I feel relieved that it is over and now I am focusing on finishing my assignments. I hope we do not take a really long break before we start as we have to finish modelling,texturing/colouring and lighting all the 3D assets(which is a lot).Plus we have to change our story and designs to add the suggestions that Karen gave us. What I did last week:

- finished colouring props turnaround
- did 2-tone shading for the storyboard
- put together the animatics

               *movie trailer voice*                     

This Is The Story Of How I Screwed Up.

I started doing 2-tone shading. Everything was going well and even Charmaine helped me to shade some thumbnails. If you read the group blog, you would know that we changed the shape of our character's heads halfway through doing the storyboards. So I reached home after doing the 2-toned shading. I was halfway done. My group then started a Skype call, and all was well until, Alvin told us that he already changed the storyboards and that he already changed the character designs in ALL the storyboards. And we were 2 tone shading the old storyboard. This says a lot about how blur I am and the "effective" communication in our group.

So i spent precious time, transferring the 2 tone layers individually into the new storyboard. And by the time I finished shading everything it was 0430. Our presentation was in 6 hours including travelling time which is one and a half hours.  Before I left home, I had put together 75% of the animatics which includes sound. I do not want to go into the embarrassing details of the sh*tstorm that happened until the presentation. But we ended up with an Animatic with no sound at all, the timing was off,  had repeating frames and went black for more than 10 seconds.

Despite all this, Karen gave us some helpful suggestions and said that we were somewhat on schedule to which we were all like wuuuut.......gurl you crazy...

Our next viva is not that far away, so i hope that we can work together better to stay on schedule so that we do not have to rush at the end. And I also want to be more responsible and not take too long to finish my tasks.

It feels like the workload we have to do and present in week 12 seems lesser than what we had to do for last week. But I also feel like I am wrong. So see you next week.