Major: to-do list

Following the major briefing on Wednesday I have written out a full to-do list for the major projet which outlines everything that needs to be done in order to create my final film.

  • Things that still need to be created
    • Duplicate Adam character and change colours to create 'Adams friends' for the windows metaphor
    • A book that Emily is holding in the windows metaphor
    • Sparks, sound waves, smoke, music notes for the speaker metaphor (not sure if these will be 2D or 3D yet)
    • Water for the bird metaphor- unsure how to make water yet- just a texture or a water simulation?
  • Things that need to be sorted out from the minor project
    • Alter animal drawings for the lion metaphor so that they have straight feet
    • Sort out glitch on lion metaphor with the planes disappearing
    • Alter the design of the bandstand in the peacock metaphor so you can see the peacock from the front
    • Sort out the texture of Emily's hair
    • Sort out the rig for Emily's hair
    • Sort out brow movement rig- movement of the hair
    • Storyboard
  • Rig assets that require a rig
    • Butterfly
    • Growing plant
    • Bird
    • Paper (so it can bend)
    • Robot
    • Fish
    • Turtle
    • Crab
    • Peacock
  • Texturing
    • Texture ALL props
      • some will need the UVs laid out and some can just have surface shaders added to them
    • Sun- be able to swap between two faces
    • Sky (sun metaphor)- be able to change colours
    • Ocean (boats metaphor- create a water texture that you can see through
  • Lighting
    • Main world lighting
    • Room (webs metaphor)- wall lights + lamp
    • House (windows metaphor)- lamps + ceiling lights
    • Road metaphor- zebra crossing lights + traffic lights
  • Animate!
    • create a shot list plan
    • animate props on each metaphor
    • animate camera (use pre viz as a starting point)
  • Post Production
    • Compositing
      • Finalise sound
      • Colour correction (?)
      • Add any graphics
      • Beginning title etc.
      • End credits
  • For submission
    • Re-do metaphor turnarounds after texturing
    • Re-do character turnaround after changes
    • Renders of facial expressions
    • Better graphically design my art of 
    • Polish storyboard
    • I'm also going to try and add to my art of as I go through this project

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