Project Post Mortem
Overview Our project started life as a semester-long effort to understand if and how visualization could be used to improve the story development process in filmmaking. Our project started with each of us having slightly …
Week 13 – Se7en Demo 1 (Part 1-2)
SE7EN DEMO & PREPARATION FOR SOFT For these weeks, we were working on the case study of Se7en. We shot half content of the script, around 1 min.In this sequence, we tried our new DOF …
Week 12 – Virtual Preproduction for Se7en
PREPRODUCTION WORKS This week, Shera came up with a color palette to use for the overall visualization. This palette is designed specific for the se7en script but she’s working on a a broader general color …
Week 9 – Remote Preparation
This week, we started working remotely! Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, CMU has made a work from home policy and the ETC set us up with our desktops and VR devices so we had the …
Week 8 – Half Semester Presentation!
Week 8 was all about the team’s half semester presentation – telling our story to faculty and starting to think about the second half of the semester. And here is the video of our first …
Week 7 – Recreation of Moonrise Kingdom Clip
In this week, we recreated a 1-min clip from the movie Moonrise Kingdom using our workflow and tools. To record multi-character performance and allow characters to interact with each other, we came up with the …
Week 6 – New Script & Further Development
PREVIOUSLY ON FORESIGHT… In our previous practice, the team did the previz completely based on script and none of us has seen the movie before. We got familiar with the previsualization process, learned how to …
Week 5 – Integration of the systems
Our main tasks on week 5: Start designing concepts for the character set and building it Add new features and refine the camera system Integrate the Mo-cap system and camera system to get footage from …
Week 4 – Reflections after quarters
This week, we had 3 main goals to accomplish: 1) Keep refining the systems with new features and start working on the integration of our Mo-cap system and VR camera system; 2) Keep working on …
Week 3 – Ramping up
This week, we officially started our exploring in real previz practice with the Butch Cassidy script! To previsualize the first scene of this masterpiece, the team worked parallelly on tech tool developing, scene blocking out, …