This week, we refined our ideas a little more, prepared for client pitches, as well as prepared for quarter walk-arounds.

In order to get our stories prepared to pitch to our advisers/ clients, we had to focus on presenting our stories in a more streamline fashion.  To do so, we had our writers pair up with our concept artist to create preliminary storyboards.  By doing so, we were able to give a visual representation of the stories, and therefore, cut down our overall presentation times.

 

On Thursday, we had some outside advisers and guests attend our weekly meeting.  Jim Duesing, our external adviser from Carnegie Mellon Main Campus, Carl Rosendahl, ETC professor at the Silicon Valley campus, Tina Blaine, and Michael Tsai, ETC alumni 2012 and Schell Games employee, attended our weekly meeting, in addition to our advisers, John and Ralph.  We pitched our two ideas to the group and received some valuable feedback as to which idea to use, how to make the stories more interesting, and possibly most importantly, which pitfalls we will need to look out for.

We completed and submitted our branding and team photo this week as well.  Our website has been set up, and we are in good shape for quarters requirements.

We also had our first retrospective for the semester.  We hold bi-weekly meetings and discuss what went right and what needs to be improved upon.  Because of the setup time, the rearranging of the rooms, and getting our footing, we did not have a retrospective during our first two weeks.  We believe holding bi-weekly meetings will help us to avoid future problems before they happen.

At this point in the semester, we are closing in our which story we will be using, and at this point, and we  will have it settled shortly after quarters.  Our team is very positive that we are in a good place will continue to take this momentum and move closer to a successful first half of this year long animation project.