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Meeting Notes for 4/13

  • Chad opened in awkward prayer
  • Need propeller consistency check
  • Joel can’t please Pete
  • Time to panic!

Meeting Notes for 2/26

  • Drew opened in prayer
  • Pete
    • he knows what he has to do
    • his team knows what he has to do
    • finished the forest floor
  • Joel doesn’t like Bob Ross (no happy trees)
  • Chad got it out there.
  • Pete is getting Andrew a list of misc. props
  • Chad is doing it up good with the matte paintings
  • Pete is comfy
  • Model
    • hair needs to be broken up
    • otherwise very excellent
  • Pete has a plan to fix the wrists of the rig
  • Drew showed revisions (pass 1)
  • Joel is continuing to animate shot 47, beginning shots 48 and 49
  • Pete loves bikinis.  Every single one.
  • Shot 43: have him already down, just with his hand on the ladder (no need to climb)
  • Andrew wants to show you guys.

LOOK AT THE SCHEDULE FOR ASSIGNMENTS!

Meeting Notes for 4/20

  • Andrew opened the meeting with prayer
  • Drew made a joke
  • Jesse is too distracted to make valuable contributions to the group (Drew and Joel agree)
  • Pete worked on reframing shot 9
  • Drew – animated shots 4, 57, 58, 5, modeled the pencil, and designed the map
  • Jesse textured stuff
  • we need to start rendering

Meeting Notes for 3/27

  • Joel opened in prayer
  • Pete did things
  • Jesse
    • texturing
    • render style
  • Chad – matte paintings
  • Joel – animation (it’s going ok)
  • Drew – animated
  • NEXT WEEK
    • do you stuff
    • get you fun
    • make you animation

Meeting Notes for 3/23

  • Joel – Animated
  • Drew – Animated
  • Pete – Modeled the lady ^_^
  • Chad drew matte paintings, and had a slow computer.  but it’s a mac!
  • Jesse – textured some things
  • Andrew – got five frames out of the render farm
  • “Creative porn”gftv
  • Meeting is at 2:00 in the afternoon this Sunday

Meeting Notes for 3/4

  • Chad is late and stupid
  • Jesse opened the meeting in prayer
  • Joel
    • Shot reference for shots in the lighthouse
    • Joel can now buckle down
  • Jesse
    • Worked on render style
  • Pete
    • Pete found a bug in Maya!
    • Finished the broken ship
    • Began working on the girl
  • Andrew
    • Went ahead and worked on some ropes and some shattered picture frames
    • Set up more shots
    • Renderability sheet made: Shot Compositing List
  • Drew
    • working on getting ahead in animation
  • Chad
    • worked on matte paintings and the poster

Full meeting Wednesday, no meeting until after spring break

Meeting Notes for 3/2

  • Chad opened in prayer
  • Jesse
    • Reviewed shot 22
    • looked at still composite of shots 4 and 7
      • how do we avoid the “3d look?”
      • everything needs to look more painted
      • avoid “crisp lines”
  • Joel
    • Reviewed shots 30, 47, 48, and 49
  • Chad
    • Posters
  • Andrew
    • Arranged After Effects stuff
    • Linked to Premiere file for editing
  • Watched “Madagascar: A Journey Diary”

Pete won’t be there saturday.

For next week, stay on your toes to see when we will be meeting towards the end of the week.

Meeting Notes for 2/5

  • Pete is off the team (as soon as he finishes the models)
  • Shots were good
  • Discussed referencing and rig issues
  • Hair control?
  • Chad showed matte paintings

FOR SATURDAY:

Look at the schedule on the dratted server.  It is more up to date than my notes…

Meeting notes for 12/11

- Everyone finished their thaangs.

- Discussed the ideal order for presentation

- Vozzie is absent

- Looked at schedule and discussed responsibilities

- Looked at people’s work to figure adjustments before presentation

Assignments

- Chad – put labels on the model sheets and export as JPEGs

- Jesse – take sequence of presentation and create PDF of that order

- Pete – Occlusion Pass and airship model prep

- Andrew – Create collection of prop model stills, possibly table model

- Joel – looking up reference for shots he is starting out with next semester

- Vozzie – working with Joel on reference for animation

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