Project proposaL:

0. A working title for your project
Hungry Puppy
1. Project goals (personal? professional? exploratory?)
Continue learning about maya in its near-infinite facets. Modeling the puppy, rigging the puppy, animating the puppy, getting a reasonable skin for the puppy.
Out putting a video. Storyboarding a video. Lighting. Sound?? Big if.
2. A project description.
(PreProduction planning for) A short (1min) video of an 3d animated puppy getting a cake from the top of a fridge in humorous ways.
3. Specific products of study or deliverables that you will be creating for your project.
A 1 minute movie clip (dare I say ‘demo reel?’), and a rigged puppy for future possible use.
4. Visual and/or written research for your project. Stuff done by other people.
Reference photos of kitchens, dogs, cakes, trampolines and other props used. Find a good soundtrack?
5. Treatment visuals for your project. This is stuff done by you. This can consist of links, a bibliography, images, etc.
Paper or electronic storyboard sketches of puppy ‘cake getting tactics,’ reference photos and sketches of puppy design, kitchen design, props design. Lighting reference photos. Maybe animation timing and movement reference clips
6. A written description of specific technical and research issues you will need to address during the course of your project.
Modeling for this kind of output (less low-poly than game). Rigging this model. Animating this model (sitting in on Miles class is key here…). Skinning this model. Lighting. Post processing, whatever that is…. ☺
7. A timeline of your project. When you will be doing all of this good stuff. You must include specific DEADLINES (for example: "January 27th", not "some time in January."
This I’m really not sure on. I’m feeling conservative and saying Pre production this term, and moving into modeling and setting up the scene next term, with finishing the term after that. So.
• Storyboard out the ideas I’ve got and come up with more by next Thursday April 16th.
• Next find puppy references and get a solid character sketch, for use in modeling, done by Thursday April 23rd.
• Meanwhile Ref pics of kitchen and props needed for tactics. Kitchen and prop sketches by the following Monday April 27th.
• (Continue sketching tactic ideas all this time of course).
• Maybe make hand wavy video for timing references. I have no idea how long that would take so I’ll say may 21st, the last critique day.
• This far out I’m not sure. Begin modeling the puppy.