Wednesday, 19 October 2016

Week 1 - Production Meeting Minutes

Agenda

- Borko needs Rendered Environment (in layers) and Character (POC shot)
- Complete 1 quarter of keyposing by Milestone 1
- Finalising on story this week
Task Distribution 
 Celine 
  • Edit Avatar facial rig to be more expressive.
  • Paint weights for whole of Lee rig
  • Keyframing new shots in Maya
  Kai
  • (Hiatus) colour script
  • Working on rendering the Virtual World with Zhifang
 Bervyn
  • Recreated dragon to be longer, two rigs for curve animation and IK posing
  • Edited Lee model mesh to have less n-sides
  • Thumbnailing the dragon fight scene
 Zhi Fang
  • Working on Virtual World rendering
  • Will implement changes into the Final Virtual World environment.
Discussion
1.Character Amendments
  • Dragon made to be longer so it looks less wormlike (Ryan suggestion)
  • (Avatar) Changing Frog logo to Dragon logo.
2. Lighting of Virtual World (edits to colour script first)
  • Lighting scripts has been checked with Yiting, the glowing objects in the bg should be dimmed to not be distracting
3. Story
  • The Artblock will cause the Canvas to be corrupted with the barrier earlier on in the story.
  • The Dragon vs Block scene will be extended
  • There will be a title intro when the Block enters the scene
    • We are thinking of using Chinese font for the intro, to give an action kung fu vibe
    • (follow super smash brothers character intro)
  • The Lasso and Glove blocking scenes are cut out and are replaced by Block
4. Special Effects
  • The splashes of the brush can be done in After effects
    • (following Batman of Shanghai method)
  • The Block/barrier/projectile breaking apart is doable (example Katniss training Holograms "Catching Fire")
  • The Glow of the environment will be white in the maya file in it's own layer,
    The colours will be added on in After Effects as a sequence.
  • The Block could be formed from cubes using particles and a vertex to merge it into the Block's form.
Remarks
Will leave the previous old 2d things such as
the grey artblock concept art, Lee and Avatar designs.