Week 3 - Greenlight Production Meeting

Agenda

-POC redone: Virtual World Environment and Avatar Model will be the new focus

-Virtual Environment textures will be updated and organised

-Avatar receives mesh update and rig fix
-Dragon design

Task Distribution 

 Celine 

• Continuing on 3D Layouts for Scene 5 and 6 (Avatar and brush only)
• Painting weights for ArtBlock (after UV adjustment)

 Kai 

• Adding details to Virtual World textures/UVs
• Adjusting lights and render look of V.W. environment

 Bervyn

• Modeling Dragon (Priority by Monday)
• Rough layouts in spare time,

 Zhi Fang

• Checking on V.W. Render and ensuring all textures load in for 3D layout use
• Bevel some edges of V.W. objects to make it less flat looking

Discussion

1. Script & Storyboard adjustments

• Action scenes with the new Dragon has been storyboarded out

2. Avatar update /consult/

•  Avatar's jacket clips into hand, assuming it is a paint weight issue.
  We will consult Ryan/Jim about this (Layouts is still possible in meantime)
• Avatar's shoes and glasses mesh were made sharper
• His eyes were given a slight iris colour gradient
• Lenses can be considered for glasses (with transparency)

3.  Rough Texture for Lee is completed /hiatus/

• Paint weights cannot be transferred from textured mesh to untextured mesh

4. Virtual World Environment 

• Reference/Panels designs confirmed and added into Virtual World (reference images: wiremesh drawings on panels will be textured on later)
• Some objects on Floating platform will be beveled to make it look less flat

5. Artblock Rendered look

• UVs are adjusted accordingly by Zhifang and Kai such that the size of numbers on the Block are not too big and flow downwards.
• Block and the body texture will be rendered separately

6. Work In Progress Tasks

• 3D Animatic (Celine)
  • Layout Scene 2, 3, 4 completed
• Rig Lasso is halfway done & Glove is in the midst of rigging
• (Glove rig put off until SFX is confirmed)
• Need to research on posters to add to cubicle /hiatus/
• Need to change lighting for cubicle room /hiatus
• Finalise texture for Artblock (colour)
• 2D cubicle design will be done AFTER 3D model lighting has been adjusted

Remarks

Will have weekly checkups on Virtual World / Avatar POC with Ryan and Borko

(contactable through email as well)

Special effects will be considered after fixes (around week 6 or later)

Including:
-Animated electricity in circuits of panels in V.W. done in after effects on an animation layer
-Reference panels/canvas to be rendered seperately so glow can be adjusted
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• Note that renders will be split into Foreground, Midground and Animation/Characters (guided by Borko)
• This is so seperate adjusting of layers can be done (with VFX too) and saves time on rendering
• 1.Mental ray will render semi-realism with weathered textures
• 2.toon shader will be rendered separately