Dialogue

    Pass 7: Final pass before industry review. Changed up a few of the main poses, mainly the ending pose, and smoothened the walking. Also added more expressions and better mouth shapes.

    Pass 6: Cleaned up a lot of the in-betweens and added more of the viewer's head moving to make it clearer that they are the one talking in the beginning.

    Pass 5: Adjusted some of the timing and exaggeration of the expressions - made some smaller while others bigger.

    Pass 4: This week was spline week and background work. I used a projection mapping to get the background. It took a while to get the spline looking proper, and it still has a few issues, but looks fine otherwise. I had to change a few of the poses to make it feel more natural in spline.

    Pass 3: More block-outs and in-betweens. 

    Pass 2: This week, I focused on expression and nailing the base movements for the dialogue. I got rid of the viewer walking as well as lessened the camera movement to make it less jarring. For the character, I messed with the eyes a bit and changed some gestures. Aiming next week to put it into spline.

    Pass 1: I was talked out of using a Heavy rig due to it not having the facial rigs I needed, and boy do I not regret it. This ninja rig is fantastic! This pass was the foundations and blocking out of the movements. I believe I blocked in too much of the mouth movement, as apparently you 'swallow words' and thus don't go through every mouth syllable.

Sprint #5 Delivery

This sprint, I focused on getting our new animator up to speed and working on back end preparations to allow for 2 animators to work on the characters. Hopefully, by setting up the robot files properly, the new mesh will be implemented smoothly.
We also created an Unreal Engine Forum here: https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/fieavr-cyberstein/505137

Contributions

    Changed hand material

    Closed printer when the ending starts

    Finally fixed time rate so the animation and dialogue sync regardless of framerate

    Helped new animator get adjusted to our project

    Set up Maya files to let the animators (me and 1 new one) work on animations at the same time

    Rearranged robot files to prepare it to get its proper meshes

Sprint #4 Delivery, Asset/Feature Complete

    This sprint's focus was to get every asset into engine and functional. As such, all of Victor's animations are in engine at a rough level waiting to be cleaned up and finalized. The Robot's animations are in and key posed to interact with Victor in the endings. All of which are playing correctly when they are needed to play. I can't seem to figure out timing issues - VR seems to delay differently than non VR and I'm unsure of how to fix it.

Contributions:

    Adjusted heads to no longer glow before they are interactable

    Sound and animation retiming

    Edited robot bad animation

    Edited Victor animation during ending start to not run through the far wall (the table will need to be adjusted to give him room to move

Exaggeration Animation

Pass 8: Adjustments to the flip and timing of the ball returning.

Pass 7: Added some squash and stretch to the ball and adjusted flip timing and hitting the ground.

Pass 6: Adjusted Scout's position before the swing to better reflect hitting the ball forward.

Pass 5: Minor adjustments to timing and positioning.

Pass 4: I decided to add a flip to better sell the exaggeration of the assignment. I also adjusted the background to be less saturated.

Pass 3: This week I aimed to convert the stepped animation to splined. Industry review is coming up this week, and I want to show this in that.

Pass 2: Focused on adding more breakdowns and movement. The flip at the end is going to need more attention before I can spline the animation to make it smoother. Capstone Vertical Slice was this week, so there wasn't much improvement from the first.

Pass 1: I want to try to start my animation process like 2D animators do -- with key frames and breakdowns rather than the individual joint key framing I have been doing. That way, I can control individual poses much easier.

Sprint #3 Delivery, Sound & VFX

This sprint was focusing on sound and visual effects, though since we had most of them already laid out, I set to work on getting mocap into engine among other tweaks and adjustments.

Contributions:

    Made the body parts move on a conveyor belt when the print button is pressed

    Adjusted button layout to open after beginning dialogue and to make it easier to understand

    Moved heads away from player until arms and legs are attached

    Added and retimed Victor's mocap into the experience

    Made a fast forward button affect global speed to quicken the repetitiveness in multiple playthroughs

    Fitted the text properly on the subtitle tablet

    Created a trash can to get rid of unwanted arms and legs

Sprint #2 Delivery, Beginning/Middle/End Part II

     This week we focused on finishing the beginning, middle, and end of the experience. You begin with the radio giving a bit of exposition, then Victor responding to your arrival. Then the middle section it creating the robot. Then the ending is watching one of the 3 endings play out (Victor will be Mocapped this week, thus he does not sync up with the animation yet)

Contributions:

    Adjusting animation key poses for the robot's endings

    Setting up an appointment to record Mocap for Victor

    The Ending Credits Menu

Sprint #1 Delivery, Beginning/Middle/End, Part I

 This week we were tasked to create a definite beginning, middle, and end of our Cyberstein game.

Contributions:

    Fade in to level.

    Dialogue implementation that plays with a sound once key events are triggered.

    Made a tablet that writes subtitles with the dialogue (note: wrapping and graphical errors will be fixed as the dialogue is finalized).

    Sequenced animations (key poses for the time being) to play with certain dialogue for the robot in the good and bad endings (note: they are not accurate to the level since it was recently changed).

    Swapped player model to have the ones with hands.

    Fade out and exit level once an ending has concluded.