Hook Line & Stinker Meeting

Hook, Line & Stinker Progress Meeting Minutes

Date: Tuesday 25th June 2013

Time: 10:00am - 11:30am

In Attendance:

Omari McCarthy

Sebastian Braende

Agenda:

Water Simulation

Modelling

Texturing

Rigging

Animating

Lighting/ Color Scripts

Rendering

Compositing

Action Items:

Production:

• get availability working hours of individuals/ teams
• negotiate deadline with individuals/ teams

Water Simulation:

• Adopt realistic lighting (http://omaritheanimator.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/water-simulation-in-cgi-animated-films.html)
• use Josh Bainbridge’s Houdini/ Maya solution
• Water simulation test renders (Seb)
• Seb to retrieve file off Omari
• Compositors Toolkit water splashes (Omari)
• Water deformation waves, maya ocean shader (Teddy)
• Water Team: Josh, Connor, Teddy

Modelling:

• All modelling complete
• Remove flag complete from boat model.

Texturing:

• specular maps for characters/ anisotropic shader? (Omari)
• batch clothes textures. pull down exposure (Omari)
• texture inner mouths of all three characters (Phoebe)
• save down all textures on per-shot bases
  
  

Animation:

• Freddy & Luke as lead animators
• what shots are complete?
• what shots need re-animating?
• simplified animation style for murman

Backgrounds:

• sky background to be painted. How many? (Phoebe)
• Nuke 3D Card workflow test (documentation for compositors)
  
  

Lighting:

• No lighting until color script complete
• detailed color script of entire film  (Phoebe Herring)
• create small lighting team; Omari, Nick, Jake, Freddie, Teddy
  
  

Rendering:

• render bible/ documentation (omari)
• 13 shots rendered out 61 (3 omitted from edit because of quality/ mistakes)

Compositing:

• send seb old render/ compositing bible (Omari)
• composite bible/ documentation, details for eyes (Seb)
• create small comp team; Seb, Omari,

Shot Tracking:

what needs to be re-rendered for each shot?

Edit:
shot count added to animatic (Ben Wardle)