Technical Progress

We reached a major visual milestone this week with the completion of projection mapping. The fire effects were successfully projected onto the physical miniatures, blending lighting, texture, and camera perspective into a unified effect. This setup was extensively tested to ensure stability, frame coherence, and projector calibration under different ambient conditions.

Lighting was further tuned to reduce spill, enhance material readability, and support spatial depth in upcoming shoots.

Additionally, the sound team finalized all audio assets—including ambient layers, cues for animations, and spatial sound references—completing the audiovisual foundation of our project.

Art Progress

On the artistic side, the miniatures underwent their final round of polishing and were hand-painted for cinematic readiness.

During a preliminary shoot, we explored various camera movements to match the emotional tone of different scenes—slow dollies for quiet moments, quick tilts for tension. After reviewing the footage, we finalized our camera movement palette to be used during formal filming. These tests helped us better understand how the miniature scale impacted camera language and informed how we should approach scene transitions and pacing.

Others

We successfully completed the filming of one full sequence—a major achievement demonstrating the pipeline from setup to shot to edit. Footage from this shoot was edited, reviewed, and served as a test case for our formal shoot process. Meanwhile, Lea edited and sound-mixed the earlier playtest videos, which were sent to participants. The overwhelmingly positive feedback from testers highlighted that our work not only functioned technically but resonated creatively. In response to feedback, we also refined our website to reflect the latest project developments.

In parallel, we carefully reviewed and analyzed the responses from the playtest questionnaire. From this, we extracted both qualitative insights—such as player confusion during scene transitions or emotional highlights—and quantitative trends, including satisfaction ratings by role and clarity scores. These findings directly informed adjustments to camera pacing, role briefing, and overall narrative structure.