Group Blog - Week 7 & 8

Updates on progress of creating the pearl harbour video

The model of the Japanese plane modeled by Alex is completed and ready for animating.

The USS Arizona ship is complete and ready for shooting, with all its details added, modeled by Austin, the mid ship model is positioned on the ship, which was created by Curtis

Buildings for the ford island created by Curtis are waiting for David to add them to the 3ds max file

All the team members have allocated scenes to create from the storyboard

Storyboard 1

2- Austin

3- Austin

4- Austin

5- Alex

6- Alex

Storyboard 2

1- Austin

2- Austin

3- Austin

4- Austin - David

5- Curtis

6- Curtis

Storyboard 3

1- Curtis

2- Alex

3- Curtis

4- Curtis

5- David

6- Alex

Storyboard 4

1- Austin

2- David

3- David

4- David

5- David - Curtis

6- David

Storyboard 5

1- David

2- David

3- David

4- David

5- David

6- David

Alex is ready with the editing process, meaning all the narration is positioned with the sound effects and music, so all he needs is the rendered scenes.

David:

David is working on a new ford island which he is creating in mud box, Mudbox is a computer-based 3d sculpting and painting tool software and as mud box is developed by Autodesk the file should merge with each other , this is because the first ford island was created in a VIEW modelling software and importing it in a 3ds max file gives the model a high poly count and this is hard to handle for the 3ds max software, so creating it mud box should help make a ford island model with a lower poly count.

David is also converting all view files like backdrops to a 3ds max file for all of the other members to have a file, so it will be a file shared out that will have all of the same lighting settings, render settings etc, this keeps all of the scenes consist and helping them to stay the same between the different members.

All models like the ship to the planes and building will be placed in this one 3ds max file for all the other members.

The render settings will be done before in the file before its given to other members, that way  Curtis, Alex and Austin has to set up the camera , animate a scene and then press render when finished.

 The file should be ready for the other members by Wednesday the 20th of November.