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  • Week 5 – Art Direction

    Week 5 – Art Direction

    Time: 02/13-02/19 Production: To prepare for the upcoming halves in 2 weeks, we decided to layout 3 rooms with films. To better understand what each room looks like, we had an art direction meeting. For the overall atmosphere, we are going after the cyberpunk vibe. Building and room inspiration can be found below. Considering the…

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  • Week 4 – 2D plus 3D

    Week 4 – 2D plus 3D

    Time: 02/06-02/12 Summary: Anthony Daniels (actor of C-3PO in Star Wars) was at ETC this week! We had the chance to discuss the project and he was intrigued by the idea of putting 2D into 3D. He described it as “cheating but clever”. Production: Continuing the effort to scope down, we decided to downgrade the…

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  • Week 3 – 1/4 Walkaround

    Week 3 – 1/4 Walkaround

    Time: 01/30-02/05 Summary: 1/4 walkaround was this Friday and we received a lot of feedback regarding our story, scope, and technical needs. We took a team photo! Production: Check out our ¼ walkround slides below. The outline included our goals, metric matrix, our progress, and plan. A major scope iteration happened this week. We decided…

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  • Week 2 – Storyboard

    Week 2 – Storyboard

    Time: 01/23-01/29 Summary: The semester is starting off faster than the previous projects we have done at ETC because we are our own clients.  Design: By the second week, we had a draft story outline and a frame-by-frame storyboard based on the graybox. We received feedback from our advisors and will continue to refine the…

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  • Week 1 – Kickoff

    Week 1 – Kickoff

    Time: 01/17-01/22 Summary: We are excited to start the semester. It’s been a long way for this pitch project to be here. We will be working in a team of six graduate students from CMU and with our project advisors, Mo and Heather. This project is different from most projects at ETC because we don’t…

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