Chris Cerrone Week 01 Journal

Chris Cerrone

Now that the site is up it’s nice to be able to write and post these without having to deal with Blackboard for the most part. Since getting back to Drexel I’ve had a hundred times more energy to devote to Sproj. Over break I mostly took time to step away from it completely, not even think about it, and it did wonders for my ability to sit down and work on it now. Most of the time I spent in the last week was devoted to scheduling, emails, setting up a new task tracking program, and other managerial things. We have terrible luck when it comes to scheduling, and it was a nightmare simply finding a time during the week that we were all available to meet. After figuring out the best time I set up our new Asana page, which is a site for task tracking and scheduling. We had been using Trello for the summer and then over last quarter, but as it became apparent I was really the only one using it, with other people normally avoiding it because either it didn’t read well enough visually for them, or they didn’t know what was going on in it. Asana is a simple list of tasks that also can be seen in a calendar view for planning ahead.

 

Aside from that sort of thing I did get about seven hours in to going over some of the revisions I made to the story over break, and began copying them from my notebook to a document. It’s my goal to have an entirely new animatic by Friday, which means getting all this new stuff copied to text as soon as possible. Unfortunately I lost a lot of time over the weekend to being out of town, and have only gotten about halfway with transferring the notes and new story bits to a word doc. After writing this I’m going to get back to that, and ideally by the end of tonight I will have a few shots starting to be blocked out in Maya with our block characters.

 

Overall I feel like the break left me refreshed and ready to hit the deadlines we’ve set for ourselves for this quarter. That and I only have 13 credits this quarter, 7 of which are mostly related to Sproj, and the others won’t be nearly as time consuming as advanced animation was last quarter with 20-25 hours of work on that homework alone.

 

Hours Breakdown

 

  • Story: 7 Hours
  • Organization:6 Hours
  • Meetings: 3.5 Hours
  • Total: 16.5 Hours

(This is probably the only thing I can really submit as a picture or example of what I did at this point.)

 

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