Week 14
We got a lot of helpful feedback from faculty during soft opening. Overall, most suggestions were nitpicking items that will help bring our experience to the next level. Most faculty felt that our world was really cute and alive, and the art style was appropriate for our audience.
Our main feedback from faculty:
- “More emotionally obvious that its raining and you’re sheltering animals
- Hard fail with birds seems harsh
- More celebration when it all works out
- Could have all animals come out with rainbow”
Aside from those main four concerns, we also decided to implement the following suggestions from softs:
- Tweaks to animation transitions
- Add rain splashing effects to the edges of the houses
- Brighten heart particle effects
- Implement dog audio cues
- Make an educator guide to accompany the experience
Client Feedback
On Wednesday, we went to the Children’s Museum to meet with our clients Rebecca and Joy. They provided us with helpful feedback as well.
- They agreed that there should be more contrast b/w umbrella and rain, and suggested changing the saturation.
- They had no problem with the egg interaction – saying it was just sad enough and that they liked the extra layered morbidity.
- They did not like the idea of a final celebration, because it felt too final and game-like, want the experience to feel endless.
- They emphasized that guests shouldn’t be rewarded for being kind.
Our Final To Do List:
The time has come for our final to do list! Which is mainly comprised of zhooshing up our experience.
- scale/add more detail to the nest
- add door opening to the house for the bone to come out of
- fix clipping of dog walking into doghouse
- fix clipping of bunny walking through the garden
- add splashing on edges of house and dog house
- brighten heart fx
- add flowers blowing in the wind animation
- slow down flower bloom
- slow background light fade
- increase rain fX/increase contrast under umbrella
- add butterfly model
- implementing final audio cues
While Weidi works on adding the finishing touches. The rest of us will begin archiving our project and preparing for handoff, as well as our final presentation.
Until then, be kind,
One Small Act