Team Meetings
We had 2 group meetings this week talking about our roles and 1/4 presentation. We finalized the four identities for the animation: International Student, ADHD, Introversion, and First-generation.
Golden Spike
We also assisted with device setup. We created a technical document outlining the Perforce and Unreal settings, and the team finished setting up Perforce and Unreal.
The team gathered additional technical details regarding DEP from Steve and David, including configuring the resolution to 800×600 for each quarter perspective video and 1600×1200 for the final composited video, setting the frame rate to 60Hz, outputting the quarter rendering layout and video/exe format, managing the device settings (DEP glasses buttons, FPGA protocols and reinserting the input/output should reset the board). We completed setting up the projector and screen.
We made sample materials, camera movement and rendered sample videos to complete the golden spike.
Environment
We created several environment drafts that reflect the characteristics of students from different backgrounds.
Mocap
We started to explore the motion capture pipeline. We obtained a mocap data from last semester’s animation project team, Pulp-Free Studio （this data was captured from the motion capture lab in CMU that we will be also utilizing later in this semester）, and retargeted it on a free model.