Create an entry for this week detailing your responsibilities, thoughts, what projects you are looking forward to working on. What you are aiming to get out of it and where you are wanting your career to be heading.
Make a Team
Recently our team is formed by 4 teammates: Zhengzhong Liang, Wanxuan Liu, Ziyin Wang and me. Unfortunatly we still haven’t found a student from other majors to coorperate, but we will try again in next week.
Project
Our project is to make a cel shading near-future sci-fi animation short film. Cel shading is a type of non-PBR rendering, which can be also called toon shading. It uses less shading color instead of a shade gradient or tints and shades in 3D production to flatten the animation graphics and simulate the feeling of 2D animation.
This week our group had several meetings discussing about our story draft and tasks for each team member. Everyone in our team wrote a short story based on the near-future scifi background. We discuss each story and finally choose one as our story draft. We then redesigned part of this story and then polished the logic and plot inside of it.
In brief, our story is: In a near-future, robot is widely used in people’s daily life. A computer virus explosion lead to a chaotic, which strained the relationship between the oversensitive protagonist and his suspected robot. A misunderstanding drives the protagonist to fight with his suspected robot, and died accidentally in this fighting. The story finally shows that the robot is not affected by the virus at all.
My responsibilities
The project works can be seperated into several areas: storyboard, modeling, texturing, animation, lighting and rendering, composite and editing, which is a normal pipeline for a 3D animated short film.
Recently I am responsible for part of the modeling, texturing, lighting and rendering. Since everyone’s responsibilities is dynamic, the schedue can be changed later. I will carefully weight my responsibilities and represent them in my weekly blog posts.