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Minutes - Week 9

Members Present:

Eva
Joel
Dimitar
Pete

From this week on, its Animation, Animation, Animation. Its week 9 so time is moving quickly. This week Joel and I worked on the scene that the planes take off from the aircraft carrier, also the scene that FDR picks up the document and where the document is faxed through, I worked on aircraft scenes with different angles, Pete is comletin the island so we can finalise scenes involving that. Dimitar is working on the harbour scenes.

This will continue to progress through the next couple of weeks, so we can inport rendered scenes into Premiere Pro to edit.

This is the finished Japanese take off scene

Animation - Week 9

We really cracked on with animation this week as we only have 3 weeks left of semester, and all of our models are now complete.

The second scene we worked on was the Japanese planes taking off from their aircraft carrier. We have The Japanese Commander's hands, looking at his watch (to set the time) and saluting the planes off.  We had to animate the plane's propellars spining to make the scene more realistic. This was done using the rotate tool and the curve editor, we also added motion blur to the propellars to make them look that little bit better.

Dimitar is working on the Harbour scene that I built in Max. I made a box and imported my water to make a very basic harbour. I then imported various files from each member of the group, Joel's battleship and small building, Dimitars hangar and jeep and my crates and lamp posts. After playing with the layout I saved it and passed it To dimitar where he is adding finishing touches and animating the scene to encorporate the storyboard.

Minutes - Week 8

Members Present

Pete
Joel
Dimitar
Eva

This week we began animating the scenes. The first one we worked on was the last scene. We used my room file, within which is the desk and documen. We then imported Joel's hands, telephone and typewriter to create the scene.

We used a free camera in the scene and used a target light in order to create shadows. Joel animated the hands so it was as if the character was looking at his hands, with blood on them.

Minutes - Week 7

Members present:

Joel
Eva
Dimitar

This week, we wanted to ensure that the majority of the modelling had been done, working with the asset list, we identified that:

Aircraft - COMPLETE
Battleships - COMPLETE
FDR's room - COMPLETE
Document - COMPLETE
Telephone - COMPLETE
Jeep - COMPLETE
Bombs - COMPLETE
Environmental Props (Crates/Lamp posts) - COMPLETE
Hands - COMPLETE
Desk - COMPLETE
Contol Room/Controls - ALMOST COMPLETE
Environment - ALMOST COMPLETE
Buildings - ALMOST COMPLETE

From this we decided that the final three items in this list will need to be finished THIS WEEK, in order to begin animating as time is now creeping up on us. We will begin this in next weeks class.

Minutes - Week 6

Members present:

Dimitar
Joel
Eva

In our 6th group meeting, we identifie what has been done, and what needs doing. Joel has finished the battleship and telephone and hands and is experimenting with how to make them move realistically, Dimitar has almost completed his jeep and bomber and is working on an ambulance, I (Eva) have completed the B5N aircraft and some props such as crates, I am working on more props: lamp posts, desks, document.

We have agreed that we will begin animating some scenes next week, those of which don't need the exterior environment as this in still incomplete, Pete will update us on the progress next week as he was not able to attend this week.