Week 1: Welcome to Team Inkling!
During the first week of the project, the team met and settled down our weekly working schedule and decided each members’ role according to each one’s skillset..
Week 2: Brainstorming and exploration
During the second week, the team had a few meetings with the faculties and came up with two pitches of the story. Due to the lack of background setting in the original..
Week 3: Concept Art and Pipeline Setup
While preparing for the quarter, we put our efforts into making concept arts and storyboard because we think it could help both us and other faculties…
Week 4: Reference Video and story iterations
From discussions within the group and with instructors, we find we have gaps in our story and we need a way to check how our animation…
Week 5: Story Lock and Hand Tracking fix
After several weeks of story grinding and iteration, we finally decided to use the storyline offered by John. In this story, the main character purchased…
Week 6: Art asset preparation for the 3D and 2D transitions
After setting down the story of 3D objects transforming into 2D objects, we had to make sure what kinds of objects on the desk will be involved…
WEEK 7: Half is coming…
We did half presentation this week! First time to show our story and animatic in front of many audiences. We spent two weeks creating the 3D animatic…
Week 8: Speed up with the established pipeline
After we clear all the barriers of the tech and art pipeline, we were able to speed up with the solid production pipeline…
WEEK 9: Finished the video clips by clips
We also made the page texture of the instruction book for delivering a clear vision of the difference between runes and gestures…
Week 10: Reflection after the playtest day
We had an important playtest section with many participants outside ETC to gather feedback from different perspectives…
Week 11: Preparing for the soft-opening
During this week, we did some preparation for the soft opening. We finalized the animation video by fixing the jittering of hands and adding models…
WEEK 12: SOFT-OPENING AND FEEDBACK
During this week the team hold the soft opening and show faculties the latest cut of the animation. We got a lot of feedback…
WEEK 13: GRINDING FOR THE FINAL
During this week, we found out the most distracting part of our animation is the unnatural interaction between hands and objects…
WEEK14: THE FINAL RUSH
During the last week of the project, the team was working hard to improve the animation and also prepared for the final presentation…