Week 7 Half! – March 1st, 2024

(2.26-3.1)

Right after the halves presentation, Team Flow reached out to the mocap lab and scheduled the next & major motion capture.

We came back to production mode with specific tasks planned out right after ½ presentation. 

Updates~

Demo

We received some helpful playtest feedback from a group of 8 high school students:

• We have guests who were dancing throughout the entire experience demo! 💃🕺
• The interaction did not felt strong enough that they feel like they could change/ affect the world
• Intuitive interaction: have the dancer doing the exact same movement, leading the guests
  • Need feedback (sound & visual) for doing the correct movement

Camera Movement Test

We tested the camera movements (zoom in, pan, track, dolly) for scene 4 (cutscene) in Cavern. The team has made the decision to create several keyframes to tell the story, instead of moving around in the scene which has a great chance of causing motion sickness. 

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Plan for Next Week 

• Production timeline for the other half
• Scene 1-3 polish
  • Waterfall 
  • Create a spirit VFX (particle effect/ sparking, floating)
  • Dancer VFX: when it is lit up, the guests can interact
• Start scene 6 celebration, parallel scene 5
  • Assets (Mountain, Temple, etc.)
  • Flower petals VFX
• Mocap 2.0 & choreography 
• Sound (sc 1-3)
  • Different music between interactive / not interactive 
  • SFX for dancer/ interaction feedback