Final Sprint Delivery #6

 Final Sprint Delivery #6

For this sprint I mainly focused on implementation and polish for everything in the Unreal sequencer. 

1. I noted quality and gave constant feedback before our final render for animation and assets. I also figured out our rendering pipeline which involved taking into account various challenges, such as our real-time hair physics simulation.

Random clipping or animators forgetting to animate the pupils:

2. I implemented our vfx into the sequencer as well the god ray cards that I created.

3. Created 3 simulated rigid body assets for the barista, Sol, and Luna. These were used for the hair to be simulated in engine, and thus not requiring hand keyed animation.

4. Created a title in Blender that is a 3D object that I placed to be rendered in the Unreal scene.

5. Rigged and skinned two additional background characters and hand keyed their animations.

6. Rendered all the images and edited them together with sound in Premiere Pro.

Sprint #5 Delivery

 For this sprint I worked on:

1. Camera layout, lighting, and shader interaction

I worked with Melanie and Jocelyn a lot to combine shots and troubleshoot lighting / shader issues. Troubleshooting material issues with assets such as the cup, chairs, and tables in terms of specular intensity. I also gave some direction when it came to adding a few extra crafty assets around the cafe.

3. Updated barista rig to include a new model that included hair.

4. Temporarily attached sol's hair to the character in the sequencer. Hopeful to add physics simulation to it next!

5. Did a quick render of the entire sequence and added the sound to it for the presentation.

Sprint #4 Delivery

 Sprint #4 Delivery

1. Melanie and I spent a lot of time organizing our sound inspiration and direction with some new people working on our foley &background music and the main cafe music. 

2. I also worked with Melanie to characterize the barista and make sure she will work with some of the selected mocap.

3. With a new low poly Sol model, I was able to push a better version of the rig to the animators. I created set driven keys for the fingers as well for easier animation.

4. I spent a majority of my time trying to implement a facial rig that utilizes nurbs planes to create a better translation and rotation space for the animators. I got stuck on skinning because I accidentally had elements that were extremely high poly in the scene that prevented Maya from working at all. Planning to finish skinning soon and push this to the animators as well!

Sprint Delivery #3

 For this sprint I did a lot of pipeline and personnel management. 

1. Tried to revert the project to 5.6 so that we could use a link plugin between Maya and Unreal, however, all of my attempts to do so failed.

2. I gave feedback about the character and environment development. I helped Jocelyn to create feedback in the form of a draw over for the Sol character.

3. I completed finger controls for Sol and a full rig for the barista character. The rigs are mapped in HumanIK, so they are compatible for use with mocap retargetting. All of the skeletons are also pushed into the engine.

4. I worked on lighting inside of a new lighting sequence that will be added to the main sequence. I tested out some various colors and moods, referencing our original color script. Additionally, I created a 3 - point lighting setup on each character blueprint so customizable lighting is accessible for any of the characters. 

Perforce:

Sprint #2 Delivery

 First, I completely fixed our folder structures in Perforce and Unreal to be more asset effective. 

Next, I worked on the character rig for Sol. The rig is still missing finger controls and an advanced facial rig. However, the rig does have Fk, Ik, stretchiness, space switching, and scalability. 

For this sprint, I also looked at pipeline techniques and attempted to integrate a Maya to Unreal live link for our character rigs and cameras. This workflow would speed up our process when exporting and importing to and from Maya and Unreal Engine. However, I have not yet had luck with installing the plugin and getting it to work for us.

Sprint #1 Delivery

1. Worked on assigning tasks and ran meetings for In Plain Sight team.

 2. Debugged camera issues in Unreal and rendered out the sequences in Unreal that contained the proxy cameras.

3. Perforce Project Setup:

Third person Unreal project setup with correct Perforce ignore file and matching source folder structure.

2. Dispatch Style Reference Collection:

 

3. Proxy Set Dressing

4. Detailed Sprint Plan

Artist Interview Presentation

 Artist Interview Presentation

Perforce Proof