Tuesday November 29, 2005

Week 15 of 15.
Finished the Breakdown Guide. Our final movie was reviewed in class.

Wednesday November 23, 2005

Richard H. cleaned a few more motion captures.

Tuesday November 22, 2005

Week 14 of 15.
V. Reese promoted her upcoming class on performance and technology which will involve motioin capture of hip hop dancers. Midori reviewed tips of getting our portfolios together for job hunting. We provided the official class surveys. All three of us went to the Motion Capture lab to clean data from the captures on Nov 16, 2005. Dane mentioned that he did not desire to put a version of the movie on the web site or process book.

Wednesday November 16, 2005

We recorded more motion capture performances in the motion capture lab. Cris, as always, acted as the demon. Dane did the directing. Dane and Richard worked the Vicon IQ Motion Capture software. Richard encountered problems while cleaning the performances. For 3 scenes that were cleaned, one or two points would be wildly off (i.e. off the human body.) Labeling went ok, but after the continuity chart was cleaned is when the points went off base.

Tuesday November 15, 2005

Week 13 of 15.
Showed the movie so far in class. It is black and white. The actors are integrated with the 3D environment. There was one shot that included the motion captured 3-D demon running after the victim.
Later, we tried to capture more Demon motion captured performance. We had a two hour timeslot but we did not get anything but a Range of Motion (ROM) test completed. After setting up, we encountered a problem using the skeleton file (*.vsk) we had set up in the ROM.

Tuesday November 08, 2005

Week 12 of 15.
We showed the video of the actors against the green screen.

Tuesday November 01, 2005

Week 11 of 15.
Showed the models for the Hallway and Rooms and the Demon to Midori and class. Rigged the hands of the demon. Added shape blends and hand rigs. This week, Cris will work on face shape blends.

Tuesday October 25, 2005

Week 10 of 15.
Rigged, enveloped and weight mapped the Demon. Finished digital backdrop. Finished capturing raw footage into computer. Created a draft Quicktime movie in fulfillment of Assignment #4 that was shown in class today. Finished a prop image of a news web site front page with "Killer on Campus" headline to be shown in the movie. Assignment 5 was assigned in class today. Took photos of Dane and Cris for dead body news photo props. Finished 24 p telescine.

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Week 9 of 15

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Week 8 of 15

Tuesday, October 4, 2005

Week 7 of 15

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Week 6 of 15
Assignment #2 was due today. Dane, Chris and I (Richard) cleaned a small number of files in Vicon IQ. Vicon IQ is both intuitive and non-intuitive at separate times. When and where it saves trials files is hard to understand. Some data is in files and some (I think) are in a database.

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Week 5 of 15
Midori continued to review how to clean data in Vicon IQ.

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Week 4 of 15
Midori reviewed how to clean data in Vicon IQ.

Tuesday, September 6, 2005

Week 3 of 15
Assignment #1 was due today. Dane and Cris each had a different storyboard and shot list. Dane's was more detailed so we went with that one. The storyboard on our group website was a bad scan. It is of Chris's storyboard.

We started our first captures. We are going with a story about a demon.

Tuesday, August 29, 2005

Week 2 of 15