Animatic

Our team made our first pass at an animatic this week.  This is the first time our story has come to life.  We will need to make adjustments and refine the flow of our animatic to be able to convey our story without any words.  Although the animatic is rough, we are pleased with our progress and believe our next animatic will answer a lot of the questions raised in the first animatic.

Meeting with Jim Duesing and Carl Rosendahl

On Wednesday of this week, we met with our external advisers, Jim and Carl.  Their feedback was generally positive and they liked our story.  They liked the story and the twist, and also gave us advice on what we will need to do this semester to prepare for next semester.  They also gave us advice on how to tighten up the animatic as well as the story.  We plan on meeting with them again before softs.

Production

Our team is right on schedule at this point in the semester.  We will be extremely busy next week and have a lot of work to do before softs, but we feel we are in a good position and the problems that we have had are nothing our team has not anticipated.  We completed our fifth sprint of the semester and using a modified version of Agile and Scrum seems to be working well for our team.

Next Week

Next week, our goal is to have final storyboards completed, a second pass of music, and a more refined animatic completed.  We will be preparing for softs, but will also be moving forward with our project.