This week moved a little slower than usual because two members of our team and Joel (who is taking his independent study with us) are at the GDC conference. But we plowed forward.
Dorothy almost has her facial blendshapes finished. We will use these in place of animating our main character’s every expression. It is less labor intensive and will work better for our timeline.
Sai continues to refine the motion capture and has been delivering scenes to Chen for compositing as he completes each one. Chen has rendered yet another rendition of the short and with each pass the original vision of last semester’s team becomes more clear.
We also did grass tests this week. The rendering time should be manageable and it looks great on its own. The next step will be putting into the context of the short.
We are still looking at getting light into the short next week, as well as Joel’s animations, hair, and the facial blendshapes. We were supposed to have an Indian classical singer come in on Saturday to do some vocal work for the soundtrack but she had to cancel at the last minute. Hopefully we can get her in soon.