Weekly Dev Blog

Week 13 Dev Blog

Sandra Liu

Hi!

This week is ETC soft opening week! We had five faculties signed up for the our soft opening: Mo, Scott, Ricardo, Mike and Brenda!

Thank you for coming! And we got extremely valuable advice on our animation: lighting / stage design / motions / styles.

For Lighting:

  1. Overall lighting has a very strong contrast between colors. Hard and dark shadows need to be improve 
  2. Lighting quality needs to be improved. The team should think about the light source of each scene
  3. Lighting of limbo stage needs to be re-designed

For Staging (transition):

  1. Some of the transitions in the background are not clear to the audience. 
  2. Repeating elements in usages
  3. Falling speed from the chessboard does not match the expectation of natural human falling
  4. Limbo transitions in merging 2 avatars need a better transition. Can be lighting exposure

For Motion (Mocap animation / Camera):

  1. Need more animation on avatar’s hands
  2. Fix some of sliding animation offsets
  3. Difference between

For Style (Color grading / visual post-processing):

  1. Will need to adjust post-processing in Unreal Engine
  2. Need to increase the render quality
  3. Some of the assets, specially assets models in hero shots, need to be smoothed in poly counts

After have these suggestions, here is the second version of our draft render: