First Entry - The project begins!

This week has mainly been about starting the project. Me and Dan started by looking at films we would like to make a scene from, that contain scenes with a good amount of work for both of us. This meant that we had to find a film we both liked, with a dramatic character scene, and a good environment for Dan to model. In the end we decided on the scene from reservoir dogs where mr white and mr pink are having a little bit of a scuffle!

This scene offers a good amount of work for both of us, and will be a great challenge. The workload for me will consist or making 2 character models, and posing them. I plan on making the characters realistic representations of Harvey Keitel and Steve Buscemi, this will be a real challenge, as getting good likenesses is a hard thing to do well, but I think I'm up to it. I started with getting a sculpt of Mr Pink, it is starting to take shape, but is no where near a good enough likeness at the moment.

We did our project presentation on Thursday, It went well, and feel that our peers will assess well. I think we communicated the project plan well, although I did forget to put the alpha deadline on the project plan! I think that's the only mistake I made though, so i was a success on the whole!

Over the next week I want to have the sculpt of Mr Pink's head done, and to have the body base mesh 50% complete, carrying on with the project plan that we set out. This is the current project plan for reference:

Week 1-3

–      Research and Initial development

Week 3-4

–      Basic posing mock-up

–      Test renders

Week 4-7

–      Character modelling

Week 7-8

–      Unwrapping

–      Alpha Presentation

Week 8-10

–      Texturing Passes & and any extra prop unwrapping work

Week 10-12

–      Scene composition

–      Import into engine

–      Lighting

–      Final Hand in