Week 6 tentative schedule

1/10: Texture: pills, shelves floor (Nurse's Station)
                      Place: Walls, pill bottles, cabinet shelves
                      Render: At least to page 3 of photo album, place together in photoshop

1/11: Light: Nurse's station
         Render: Nurse's Station complete to at least page 5, place together in photoshop
         Begin After Effects Project

1/12: Begin placement of walls, floors, beds, boxes and cabinet other assets in Ward B
         Continue After Effects Project

1/13: Break day

1/14: Finish texturing ward B models
         Begin work on "Hero Room"
                   Model/Texture Assets: Game boxes, boards, books, shelves, magazines

1/15: Continue work on "Hero Room", complete textures begin placement.

First page

So basically I'm making a motion graphic photo album. That way I can achieve my original goal of telling a story.

I'll post the storyboard sketches later.

Here's the 2 Pages of the album:

Update

So I realized that I didn't really have a solid end idea for my thesis and it was making me struggle through the rest of the set up.

I finally came up with the idea of taking still images and putting them together in a virtual "photo album" then have them play through a video and have voice over work on top of that. That way I can show off the level.

Here are some of the shots I've taken for the final piece.

Images Ho

Revisions

So my thesis had to take a slightly different direction from the original plan of making a game level. Instead it's going to be an environment. Not so different from the original goal set.

I realized partway through the first couple weeks of this quarter that I did not plan out properly for a game level. Which in a way is actually a good thing....At least from a learning point of view. I almost wish I could start thesis over so I could do a better job of planning for a game level.

Almost.

I've got a few ideas about how to take a walk through into After Effects and making a video for my thesis defense. Lots of work left to do this quarter. I kinda wish thesis was a three quarter project.

More updates

Post more renders later.

Quick Update

Been doing some texture work on the models.

Have to upload these from an outside source because blogger doesn't like Tifs and I'm without my laptop.

Yeah, that's been making work hard to do, especially since I work on the weekends. I had a loose cable in the back that was making the monitor flicker on and off, which had to be fixed before it died completely. Luckily, my laptop was under warranty so it's not going to cost me anything to fix it. I was also able to drop it off with a real person instead of mailing it in, so I feel a whole lot more comfortable that my laptop is going to come back to me in one piece.

Still getting work done steadily though.