Kick Off

This week marks the beginning of the first ever year-long animation project at the ETC.  We used this week to get organized, assign roles, establish high level goals for the semester, and to start brainstorming sessions.  The team met with the project advisors, who are also serving as the project clients as well.

Our team came up with the team name “Foxhole”, and from here on out, the name of our project room has been established as, and will be referred to as “The Foxhole”.  We have also began to brainstorm ideas for branding and ways to make our project room reflect our teams’ personality and project goals.

After we took care of the housekeeping items, our team jumped into brainstorming sessions to try to shape what this project will be.  Over a dozen ideas were put on the table by several team members.  We practiced the “yes and…” principle and used a separate meeting to start paring down ideas.  After several meetings, we settled on 5 general concept ideas.

Over this coming weekend, our writers will each write outlines on at least two of the five ideas.  They will choose which ideas to write about, without informing each other until Tuesday’s meeting.  We hope this will help pare down our ideas even further, as well as see different takes on different ideas.

The challenges we faced in week 1 were minimal.  The only issue we have had is having to wait for our requisitioned software and equipment.  We believe we would have been able to use the requested software and equipment immediately in the first week had it been available.  As of now, there are no major concerns on the team regarding the project.  We believe we are right on schedule, if not a little ahead, at this point.

This coming week we plan to set up our sprint schedule and high level overview, outline project milestones, establish branding, and hope to have begin developing a script.