Rome was not built in a day!

All great things take time. Our project is really taking its time. Hopefully, it will turn out to be great! Here is an update on our Production Schedule. I have edited it to show only our third semester work plan.

Added all these dates to our Google Calender Group too including the start and deadline dates with the team mates name involved in a specific production process,

Production Schedule Updated

The Going Live Module, Reflection on Module Research paper, organising Focus Groups and transcribing the results took a lot of time that was otherwise scheduled for the development of the character models (Lily, dog and bird). I am currently still modeling Lily thus I had to reschedule the Production Schedule to mirror the changes and make up for the time lapsed.

Since the modeling is taking much time now. I have shifted the coloured tabs to reflect a more reasonable allocation of work left to time left. 

Shot List

Since we had completed our 2D Animatic, to get along with the production of the film it was important that we make a Shot List and fill in the details regarding each shot. Lilly very efficiently made a template which I found to be very informative and apt for our animation film. As there are four of us working on this project, I included the ' Person Incharge' tab at the end of the template so that we would know who is responsible for which shot of the film. 

I used the 2D Animatic After-Effects file to fill in the rough time slots. After ascertaining the rough time calculating the frames was easy enough. Then I added a few lines to describe the shot. Details of the environment, characters, props and dynamics followed. I used the Notes slot to fill in any camera movements that might be used in the particular shot.

Following are the completed pages of the Shot List.

We are still at the Pre-Production stage thus the Production pipeline still remains to be filled in.

Supervisor Meeting

Today,we had a meeting with Sharon. She was overall happy with the storyboard that we have put together.

Some of the things that might need a look into is for one more human involvement in the story. So,we are planning that Lilly(the owner) will be present in the garden at all times oblivious to the dog-bird fight. Maybe doing some gardening or putting up some clothes to dry. However, since that would be a challenge as putting up clothes will require excellent knowledge of ncloth. We might look into that.

Also by bringing Lilly to the garden it will save us time as we will then just need to make the exterior of the house plus it will save screen time as well.

Another issue that came to the forefront was using 2D Backgrounds with 3D Animation. Sharon told us that it will be easier for us to get things together if we did not try and merge two different animation styles. So, that is a thing that we will be discussing in our next team meeting.

Sharon liked the piece of Narration that I have made for my counterpart research film. Currently,I am working on its visual presentation and story-boarding.

For the next meeting, we are required to have polished Animatic of both the films, 3D Model of Lilly, Colour tones that we might use for the films and background styling.

According to the production schedule, and my planning we must have the Animatic ready by 21st February so that I can go ahead with my Focus Group Research.

Production Schedule

Currently,the name of the film stands,'The Tug of Biscuit'. Since I am the Production Manager of it,I planned to create its production schedule on the Google Calender. However to get an overall view of the entire production timeline I created one on Excel too.