Personal Schedules

Synaesthesia

Here is the schedule that I have come up with for the Synaesthesia project, which I joined as an Animator on the 12th April 2012.  So far, I have 10 shots to do in only seven weeks, so I need to plan each stage carefully and efficiently.

Week	Dates	Planned progress
1	16/04/2012	Shot 8 - Door to Piano Shot 2 - Hallway to Kitchen
2	23/04/2012	Shot 3 - Kitchen to Bookroom Shot 4 -Kitchen to Bookroom Shot 5- Book room to Dog Room
3	30/04/2012	Shot 6 - Stairs to Dog room Shot 7 - Dog room to Piano Shot 11 - Canvas Painting
4	07/05/2012	Shot 9 - Aerial shot of Piano Shot 1- Walk cycle for live action backdrop

This should give us 3 weeks to focus compositing and editing.  We intend to render out each shot as and when they are completed.

Cat and Rat (now abandoned)

Here is the schedule that I came up with for the project, Cat and Rat: The Legend of the Chinese Zodiac, along with all the necessary deadlines.  I organised it so that it fit with every other team member's schedule. Unfortunately, this project has since been abandoned due to the large number of technical issues that we encountered and that hindered our progress.

Week	Dates	Planned progress
1	02/01/12	Redesign Ox and Emperor characters
2	09/01/12	Finalise Ox and Emperor characters and draw up model sheets
3	16/01/12	Begin rigging of the cat.
4	23/01/12	Give the cat rig to James for weighting Test the cat rig and if it works; send to the group Begin rigging of the Ox
5	30/01/12	Give the Ox rig to James for weighting
6	06/02/12	Test the Ox rig and if it works; send to the group
7	13/02/12	Decide as a group who animates each shot.
8	20/02/12	Prepare for animation; sketch key poses and record oneself in the various poses, where possible. Otherwise, use archived footage of relevant animals as reference.
9	27/02/12	FORMATIVE
10	05/03/12	Receive scene files with cameras set up and models imported, ready to be animated. Block out animation for the shots that I have been designated in Maya
11	Holiday	Animated inbetween and breakdown poses for each shot
12	09/04/12	Look through animations; improve and refine poses
13	16/04/12	Send playblasts to Lily for approval
14	23/04/12	Send fully animated scenes to James for rendering
15	30/04/12	Start compositing scenes; get in touch with a sound designer
16	07/04/12	Editing the composited footage (I might be in Stuttgart this week)
17	14/05/12	Editing the composited footage together
18	21/05/12	Apply sound effects Apply credits to film Encode video correctly as per Ravensbourne 2012 Technical Standards for Programme Delivery
19	May 25th	Hand in