Group Update 21/11/11

At the last group meeting we merged our work and ensured all the rooms being created fit inside the main building. New models were allocated out to each member and decided that by the beginning of next week all modelling will be finished and some animation completed. It was decided that no more time will be spent on modelling and therefore we would not include the museum in the animation.

Anna is completing the celebration hall with a laid out banqueting table, she has also modelled a room for the almshouse. Stewart will be modelling a loaf of bread as a token to give to the poor. Helen will be finishing the guildhall including the stairs, the environment and sourcing characters to use within the animation.

List to do:

Celebration Hall - Anna
Tokens to poor - Stewart
Museum – Unable to do
Almshouses - Anna


Source characters: Helen
Children for school
Priest teacher
Man handing tokens to poor
Poor people
1. Taking tokens
2. Living in Almshouse
People for celebration hall

Food for celebration table- Anna

Group update

Anna, Helen and Stewart are well on their way to finishing the school room, library and main building of Guildhall. They have made a revised list of addtional things they will need to model and did some research into what the celebration hall would have looked like in 1420.

Research for celebration hall link

They have decided that for the purpose of ensuring the end result of the animation is of a good standard they would source the charcters from the internet. These will be referenced.

The revised list is:

Environment including Church - Helen
Main building of Guildhall - Helen
Celebration Hall
School - Anna
Tokens to poor
Museum
Library - Stewart
Almshouses

Source characters:

Children for school
Priest teacher
Man handing tokens to poor
Poor people
1. Taking tokens
2. Living in Almshouse
People for celebration hall

Source of furniture or model:

Bath - tin
Bed
Pot for cooking with on fire

Need to model:

Oil lamps lighting - Stewart
Candles
Tokens to poor – bread
Food for celebration table

Firplaces

Presentation and SWOT analysis

We feel the presentation went well. We demonstrated how well our group organised the overall direction of the project by identifying each aspect we will be modelling and animating. We have a clear plan for our work and our team is strong working together.

SWOT Analysis:

Strengths

Being in a group makes us feel confident knowing that the workload will be divided between us. We are a motivated team who work well together.

Weaknesses:

Modelling, animation, learning of new techniques takes time and as we are still learning it is necessary to watch tutorials which also take time.

The 3dmax software takes time to understand and use which does have a limiting effect on creativity.

Opportunities:

This year we have an opportunity to develop our 3Ds max skills and finish the degree as confident professionals, using the program easily for any modelling or animation need or for animation production for a real world client.

Threats:

Other modules could be counted as threats, because we have to do other assignments at the same time and it takes time as well.