Days left

just a reminder, as of Wednesday April 4, only 260 days left until our thesis's needs to be done, no pressure though!

Done by Disney great Freddy Moore

Dead Line list

Dead line List

• March 30-May 31 script revisions
• April 1-31 new story boards
• April 31 El Toro character modeling done “Hard deadline”
• May 9 story/ script done “soft deadline”
• May 9 research paper “Hard deadline”
• May 9 3D animatic “Hard deadline”
• May 31 Rowdy character modeling done “Hard deadline”
• May 31 story/script done “Hard deadline”
• May 31 production planning
• June vacation 1-9 / revisions
• July 31 both characters rigged “Hard deadline”!
• July 31 Story boards done “Hard deadline”!
• July 31 vocal tracks “Hard deadline”!
• August 3-10 Siggraph
• August 11-17 revisions
• August 18 animation start
• August 31 Art direction/ backgrounds etc… “Hard deadline”
• September 30 Animation done “soft deadline”
• October 1-31 sfx “Hard deadline”
• October 1 rendering start
• October 31 animation done “Hard deadline”!
• November 22 Thanksgiving rendering done “Hard deadline”
• November 23 compositing/ editing start
• December 10 compositing/ editing/ story reel done “Hard deadline”
• December 11 titles/credits done “Hard deadline”
• December 12 marking/ promotion
• December 13 story defense/ professor critic?
• December 14 crack the six packs!!!!!!

Journal entry # 7 4-2-07

Wow, the weeks are just passing right by and before we know it the semester will be over and the summers here and before you know it the Fall semester and were all done. It's been a few weeks since I last put anything up about my progress, I'v just been busy with other classes trying to make everthing get the proper attention. As for what I'v been doing in pre-vis, I went back again and rewrote the rewrite. I'm still not happy with the story, I broke the story down into acts to get a better feel and timing of the story. I pretty much wrote Cody out of the story and focused on El Toro and Rowdy. I talked to a few persons outside of the class and they felt that the story should be way more simplified then what I have now. The meat and potatoes of the story is Rowdy keeps trying to ride El Toro and everytime gets thrown off but climbs right back up and tries glue, nails, rope etc.. to stay on, it's more true to the Chuck Jones style. One last thing that I did was make a dead line list for what needs to be done when, it's both a soft and hard line list it takes me right up to thesis and the last day of class. I think eerybody should have somthing similer to follow to stay on course and not get behind, when this semester is done it will be great, just down to the wire now and all the classes need my attention!!
-Good luck all
ps. animation class is getting better, I sure hope so I have a lot to do with this!!!!