Wed 26/11 Morning lecture with Robin and Florian: Gave me some ideas as how to make it appear as if the bear is a little fluffy, without making a detailed texture that might stretch too much during animation(It's all in the rim light).
Meeting with Michelle concerning the model workshop, tools, cams. and lights ( remember to talk to Bertil concerning list of lights).
I made a suggestion as to the viz. structure which we will discuss tomorrow.
Magnus and I made some character design.

27/11 Discussion concerning visual structure- We have the first draft.
Anders expresses his conserns as to being too much in the basement building set, while dicisions are being made about the storyboard. We agreed that we all pitch in in making 2.nd draft.
Anders thinks he'll be finished with the first model 3/12.

28/11 Hostpital

21/11 Short meeting with sunit. showing some tests. Turns out that we can make pans more easily than we thought. But cam. rotations are a little bit trickier than we thought: we will have to take pictures of many of the element in the sets in different passes.

24/11 Alice, magnus and I had story meeting. Anders came back from CPH with materials to built model and got started right away.
Magnus came up with the idea to film the sets for when we want cam. moves and match the movement up with some software he tried. He proposed that this might be quicker In general I'm a little critical towards the idea as I think it will just introduce more elements to the process and thus slow us down.

25/11 Group meets with Michelle and Tod.
presentation of story which needed some slower pace somewhere during the chase.
different notes:
-submarine needs no introduction besides what is in the storyboard
-Explosion (fill the whole screen) let them land at home.
-homes are intact after xplode
-train is maybe too much work
-check water in science of sleep
-make 3D animatic before christmas
-2.nd pass 2D animatic. due 1st. dec. ( As animation lead think about poses )
Alice and I will start tomorrow.
-5-6 color sketches.

Evening lecture in planning, storyboarding and Timing ( see notes )

17/11. Group meeting with Michelle, Tod and Sunit.
shooting of ref material for matchmoving tests.
Worked on the test scene.

discussing how to built models.


18/11. we made the Folders according to Sunits folder structure.
Tecnical research.
Gag meeting with Tod. a lot of new great ideas.

19/11. It's Finally decided we will be building live models.

20/11. tecnical reseach. Today we made a number of decisions as to the shots with and without cam. moves: In all shots where we have a real life (RL) set we have to built an according maya dummy, in order to get shadows from the characters falling correctly "on" images of our real life set.
In shots with small cam moves we will model small extrusions in i plane according to a still shot of the real set and project the image onto this plane.
In shots with larger cam. moves we agreed to make it all in Maya. and composite

Trees turned up to be a little tricky as they have a such detailed outline, and we are dicussing how to get around it.

Furthermore One of my friends, who is a skilled in camera and light, have offered his help with setting up light and guiding us in taking pics. of the model.

21/11. Alice, Magnus and I are all working on the storyboard trying to go through the whole story in a pretty rough version.
Anders is in CBH and is bying stuff for the models. He is having a meeting with Karin to get some help with the models.