weekly news

This week i got bad news that the dummy project had folded. Cant say i did not see this happening but was a big surpise to me when we are so close to the finish line. Some Members of the dummy team put in a lot of effort into that project, so it wasn't nice to hear it had been folded. How ever JB the Dummy team leader did say he might want to finish it over the summer which i wont want any part of because i will need to get my life in gear for its next stage and i just wont have time i don't think.

So now that's been cleared up all i have left to work on now is the pirates project, which is ok as i do have a lot of work still do on it mainly animation. I have also asked sarah varall if i can work on the gnomes project as well to do some character animation on a few shots. So hopefully i might get some work if they really get stuck for time.

Now back to the pirates project...................OHHH DEAR. lets be honest its the 23rd of april and i still have not seen one decent final renderd shot of this project yet. Other projects have been working on the look of the project for weeks now and have it perfectly set up with the lighting and stuff. We are not even at that stage yet and we should be by now as it would be nice if the pirates project looked as good as some of the other projects. We havnt even done tests in after effects yet to get the final look. its such a shame as this is going to hit us hard if we dont have this sorted out in the next 3 weeks!!. Other projects are all set now and just need to animate and render and thats it. oH and com-posit aswell.

Also lets not forget that we still have not got all the rigs ready yet or even tested them. patches is ok and works so thats fine. but the guard i dont think is done yet its close tho. breadbead is being done now but i dont no how long that will take. walker is not even rigged and weighted yet wtf?

ok the Micheal quirk situation is a shame we would have been miles ahead if the guy turned up into college and did what he was supposed to do....... which was rig the characters???? i think. One of the other main issues with the group is most days not all of us are in together. So only lewis really knows whats going on. Mu li and tom know a bit but confuse me sometimes with that is going on. there is a lack of communication between us all as everyone shows up on different days. Everyone is working on seperate things so we can sit together and see where we are all at. i think this is enough rant from me but this project will not get finished to its full potential unless things are sorted out next week before may. This project can get finished just not sure if we will get the time to get it how lewis may of wanted it to look.