Its all ogre now. Everyone that came in comp’d, and everything that was comp’d is in the movie, which is done, minus the music but we should have that today. Here’s the stuff from Avery, Chris and Alexis. No PPJs from anyone else at this time,
Author: Chris Cerrone
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Team Journal IX of the Fifth Moon
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Chris Cerrone Week 09 Journal
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Well what is there to say. This is due tomorrow and after that it’ll be over. Given that its due tomorrow it was surprisingly difficult getting people to come in and do all the comping that was needed, since each day there were 2-3 people in the wind or just disappearing during the day. ButContinue reading
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Team Journal Week 08
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It’s quite hard to do a team journal when half the team doesnt have a PPJ yet. So here’s the stuff from the people that have done theirs. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC7DU9zFIj4] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ejEvXg58F4] Positives:
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Chris Cerrone Week 08 Journal
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Well what is there to say about this fine week? Getting the sounds together was a little bit of a nightmare. While I found working with something entirely tangental to what I had been doing before enjoyable, the fact that I spent most of the time looking for sound effects bogged me down and madeContinue reading
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Chris Cerrone Week 07 Journal
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Well what is there to say about this week in a reasonable amount of time? I finished off all animation I needed to get done, in addition to a 500 frame shot that I had to do because it wasn’t going to get done any other way. After that I set everyone to assembling filesContinue reading
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Team Journal Week 07
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This week in room 206: We went from about 20 rendered shots to almost all shots rendered in the last week. Alexis worked on finishing lots of animation and then helped with compositing. Avery rendered stuff, and also composited. Chris did a whole bunch of different things, from sound design to a bunchContinue reading
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Chris Cerrone Week 06 Journal
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What did I do last week? I feel like I didn’t do anything, considering the progress on my shots. Every time I sit down to animate I get back up because there’s something else that needs my attention. Render file isnt working, someone didn’t update the frame range on the shot list so I needContinue reading
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Week 05 Team Journal
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This week all animation that didn’t qualify as a performance moment got finaled and is being set up to render, with the intention to go back and refine more after the key turning points get more work into them. Here’s and assortment of videos animated by Chris, Alexis, and Juan.: Chris Alexis [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaHLmMGr5mU]Continue reading
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Chris Cerrone Week 05 Journal
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Woo Wee. What a week. Lots of animating for me, just kidding, as always there were many many things that popped up last minute for me to fix. Whether they were technical issues with files not being referenced properly, blendshapes not displaying properly, Black Golds Bump map looks like a car ran over his face,Continue reading
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Chris Cerrone Week 04 Journal
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Starting this a littler earlier in the week, figured I’d upload the props that were more or less finaled by me. Here’s a little rigged thingy that you see at train stations for when the train is coming in. It’ll be used to display the engine temperature, going off the joke that he’sContinue reading
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Chris Cerrone Week 03 Journal
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There isn’t much more of an interesting narrative here this week compared to last week. I animated and managed and took on more shots when other people weren’t going to get them done. I spent most of my time, as usual, chasing down people who aren’t getting their shots in or seem unaware that theyContinue reading
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Week 02 Team Journal
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Well it sure was an exciting week for the flock of Team CG Birds! We got confirmation that Avarese can score our movie, and just need to get him a frame locked version by early May. We’ve continued having Dailies Daily, which has improved everyones work and productivity immensely since last term. We spent aContinue reading
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Chris Cerrone Week 02 Journal
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Well picking up where we left off, I went to meet with Avarese about scoring our movie. He agreed and told me when he would need a locked down version, as in we really aren’t even cutting off frames anymore. After that meeting we met with Berton to further go over the weeks progress. ThatContinue reading
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Team Journal Week 01
0 This week we all got back from Spring Break (though a few never left) and met to discuss moving forward with the project. The lack of clarity and resulting anxiety on what “Beta” was carried over from last quarter, but was soon resolved by deciding to focus on moving forward with the schedule we haveContinue reading
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Chris Cerrone Week 01 Journal
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This week I spent most of my time in meetings, so not the most productive of weeks, with the exception of our almost daily Dailies, in which we’ve been getting a lot of good feedback from everyone in the group and moving things along in a more streamlined manner. I recorded final dialogue for allContinue reading
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Chris Cerrone Week 10 Journal
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I spent most of the last week animating sc02 since for my independant study it needs to be polished by the end of the quarter. I also did a lot of corrective blendshapes, and completely redid all of Ralph’s mouth shapes as blendshapes. I retimed a lot of the animatic and on Berton’s advice haveContinue reading
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Chris Cerrone Week 09
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Spent 68 hours wokring last week. most of it trying to render to hit the “beta” animation requirements of first pass shading lighting and comp. There’s really too much to go into. I shaded when necessary, I rendered and animated. Managed the team and tried to get everyone in the same room as often asContinue reading
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Team Journal Week 09
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This week was a long week of fighting the renderfarm, corrupted files, xGen caches, crashes, and many a shed tear. But some grief knows no words, and to try would be a disservice to the hardships we’ve endured, and the deadline approaching. We all animated, we all rendered, we all comped, we all didn’t sleep.Continue reading
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Team Journal Week 08
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Everyone’s working fully to get our “Beta” animation done for next week. Avery and Chris primarily worked on the poster Thursday and Friday. While it took a significant amount of time away towards actual production it did push up the deadlines for shading which left time for a second pass before they were really due.Continue reading
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Chris Cerrone Week 08 Journal
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Did second pass shading on all characters, and have all the xGen done for each character. I spent some time animating and working on the animatic before I started tracking animation time seperately. I got sick Wednesday but was able to work from home and get a little done. From that point on it wasContinue reading
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Week 07 Team Journal
0 Things have kept rolling this week with a slight shift to more shading and hair creation of the characters in order to have renderable characters this week for the poster. Chris primarily worked on that in addition to finishing the Face rig for the janitor, animating his scenes, dropping new scenes in the animatic, andContinue reading
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Chris Cerrone Week07 Journal
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New animatic edit, Finished Ralph face rig with the exception of the mouth which needs a lot of Corrective blendshapes. Fixed glitch with other rig. Put a rig in the Mad Scientist Model, Shaded Ralph more and did all his xGen hair stuff. fought xGen problems Sat – Now. Shaded Black Gold and started onContinue reading
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Week 06 Team Journal
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This week the Mad Scientist sculpt was finished by Zack and while there are still a few tweaks we want to make to see how he looks with a slightly larger head the character is more or less done. Alexis and Chris worked on facerigging, the Super Hero and Janitor respectively, and both are aboutContinue reading
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Chris Cerrone Week 06 Journal
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I broke 44 hours last week and I can still feel every one. Majority of the time was spent on rigging the Janitors face (half is fully rigged and weighted, it needs to be mirrored and then a bank of SDKs needs to be created) and then Unwrapping/surfacing his skin and eyes. I enjoyed theContinue reading
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Week 05 Team Journal
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After our presentation Tuesday we focused on both retiming the animatic as well as pushing our environment and character models further. The animation team met Wednesday night to discuss the rest of the week’s work, and by Friday had retimed many of the shots. Saturday they met as well to work together in the labsContinue reading
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Chris Cerrone Week 05 Journal
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Last week I was pretty burnt out after the push to get the animatic together for the presentation. For the rest of the week I still worked the same amount of time as usual but I feel like I didn’t get as much done. Its not so much that I got distracted as it isContinue reading
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Chris Cerrone Week 04 Journal
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I worked 41:05 hours last week. About half animating, about half organizing, about half writing and rewriting the script. Thats more than 100%, because I did more than I expected to get done. I put body rigs in a rough mad scientist model that Avery made, then I did it to the Super Hero, andContinue reading
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Behold!
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Mad Scientist is a temp rough model, but both have body rigs we can use to articulate the story better. Should have the Super hero in the shots by Friday!
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Week 03 Team Journal
0 Over the last week Avery continued working on some of the more important bits of the environment, like the key panel , main control console and roughing in the storage room. Chris rigged the Janitor’s body but ran into trouble with the twisting in the IK set of the arms and has been working onContinue reading
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Chris Cerrone Week 03 Journal
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With last Monday off we met with our advisor Tuesday, and got feedback on the current animatic that I had put together. Later in the week we split the shots and I started working on mine as well as changing some of the story we got feedback on. Primarily this week I worked on riggingContinue reading
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Week 02 Team Journal
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Overall it’s been a very busy week as we push to reach our planned pop through by the end of the month. Over the last week Zack has continued to retopologize the janitor model and now has it ready to be rigged and can move on to finishing the sculpt of the Super Hero andContinue reading
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Chris Cerrone Week 02 Journal
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This was quite a busy week for me in terms of senior project. Between last Monday afternoon and Friday night I worked primarily on the getting an entirely new animatic out, using the rough environments Avery has been working on and the block characters we used previously as stand ins. I also recorded a bunchContinue reading
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Week 01 Team Journal
0 After everyone spent most of the break recharging we’ve all come back ready to hit the ground running and hit our goal of having a pop through by the end of January. Over the last week Chris began implementing some of the story revisions he worked on over break and week 01, as well asContinue reading
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Chris Cerrone Week 01 Journal
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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, notContinue reading