I am hoping everything is going well! For all those who have volunteered their time to this project, I would like to thank you for sharing your talent with me. I appreciate every single one of you working so hard on the project. To make things easier, I now have the proposed schedule here on the blog to view, so everyone can know when I expect things to be done.
We are going by the Savannah College of Art and Design quarter system, meaning we have 2, 10-week periods of work broken by a week or so of spring break (though I will be working through this break, as any of my crew members are allowed to do, as well). We are on the first quarter, currently.
TD = Technical Direction
CHAR.ANIM = character animation
BT.ANIM = butterfly animation
BG = backgrounds
BG.CU = background cleanup
BG.COL = background coloring
ART.D = Art Direction
(production rainbow! noooo way, so beautiful)
Proposed Schedule
Week 3 : Goals
• Puppet Research [√]
• Mabel Puppet [√]
Week 4 : Goals
• BG: production started on background sketches [√]
• Jonathon Puppet [√]
Week 5 : Goals
• TD: Animation tests with character puppets [√] - Mabel has yet to be fully tested, but this has carried over to week 6
• Beginning of preparation for Flash/Puppet animation tutorial and first meeting [√]
• ART.D: Meet with Art Director [√] Art Direction concepts due in ~2.5 weeks
Week 6 : Goals
• Preparation for Flash/Puppet animation tutorial and first meeting [√]
• ART.D/TD: Continuation of art direction for film, meet with technical director for ideas [√]
• BG.CU : Start clean up of some background shots: checkpoint Friday, February 25 [√]
• CHAR.ANIM: Assign shots: Thumbnails checkpoint Friday, February 25 [√]
• BT.ANIM: assignments sent out : checkpoint Friday, February 25 [√]
• TD: Daisies/ bone tool test assigned: Due Thursday, March 3rd [√]
• First Meeting, Friday, February 18, 2011. 3:00 PM room 112 [√]
Week 7 : Goals
• Hand puppets
• Additional puppet items created [√]
• TD: Daisies/ bone tool test DUE: Due Thursday, March 3rd [√]
• BG.CU: checkpoint for background cleanup and new shot assignments if applicable : next checkpoint Friday, March 4th[√]
• CHAR.ANIM: Thumbnails Checkpoint: move on to drawn keyframes and breakdowns for assigned shots: checkpoint Friday, March 4th [√]
• BT.ANIM:checkpoint: continue butterfly animations : checkpoint Friday, March 11 [√]
Week 8 : Goals
• BG.CU: Checkpoint for background cleanup [√]
• CHAR.ANIM: Drawn keyframes and breakdowns due. Begin Puppet animation: checkpoint Friday, March 11 [√]
• ART.D: concepts and methodology due. Meet with Art Director to discuss. [√]
• BT.ANIM: checkpoint: continue butterfly animations : checkpoint Friday, March 11 [√]
Week 9/10 : Goals
• BG.COL: begin coloring backgrounds: checkpoint, Friday, March 18 (NOTE: this has been changed to begin at the beginning of next quarter)
• CHAR.ANIM: Puppet animation checkpoint. Address issues or assign new shot as necessary. Next checkpoint, Monday, March 14
• BT.ANIM: checkpoint: continue butterfly animations : checkpoint Friday, March 14
(NOTE:) this is finals week for SCAD-Savannah students and I am more than willing to be lenient on the checkpoint for this week.
• Spring break starts at the end of this week. Members are free to continue working if they can. Production officially starts back up next quarter
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• No official meeting this week
SPRING BREAK GOALS
• CHAR.ANIM: Continue animation (if possible)
• TD: Car Puppets underway
NEXT QUARTER GOALS
• TD: Car Puppet completed and animated
• Acquire a co-producer [√]
• Gather members for background coloring
• Complete background coloring
• CHAR.ANIM: Continue and complete animation
• midterms and finals pizza party for SCAD-Savannah students
SUMMER QUARTER GOALS
• CHAR.ANIM: continue and finish animation if need be
• Finessing
• Compositing
• Musical score completed
• midterms and finals pizza party for SCAD-Savannah students
