John Harvey | Week 9 | Call me Prometheus | Postmortem at bottom

WEEKLY NARRATIVE

This week was spent mostly Re-uving models I created to fit the new gradient texture style. The problem with this is not all models can fit that style so some were left the same. I also warped the rest of these models which is always fun you get some unique forms.

After this I went back and cleared the outdated info on these models from the AssetList as well as re-populating it with relevant info.

Got 4 playtesters in, Library seems a little tight. I don't know might just be a camera issue.

Sunday, I spent 2 hours creating a pretty sweet fire effect for our fire place, i'll show this down below.

CONTENT WITH HOURS

• Re-uving & Warping (2.5 hours)
• AssetList (.5 hours)
• Playtesting (1.5 hours)
• Fire Particle (2 hours)
• Blog (.5 hours)

WORKFLOW EXAMPLES

 

POSITIVE OUTCOMES

• My assigned tasks were completed
• My maya wasn't actually broke it was just a new way of Uving

NEGATIVE OUTCOMES

• Gradient UV doesn't work for every model we have and the switch happened halfway through.

POSTMORTEM

• Reviewing my Performance
• Excellent -9.8/10
• + All tasks I was assigned got completed and then some.
• + Continual updating of my Assets on the AssetList (including custom pages)
• + Followed workflow
• + Continual updating of time estimates 
• + 80~ separate assets created (models/Assetpages/particles) this quarter.
• - frustration when others aren't doing the same
• Things that went right.
• Tasks got completed
• If a model needed to be passed, it got passed and completed
• Had enough work to do throughout the quarter
• Things that went wrong.
• Communications with Design dept. & my Dept. was at times like pulling teeth.
• When the group got bottle-necked instead of holding people accountable, it seemed like the issue was being avoided.
• While I really like the Gradient texturing, it was set that we were doing flat shading in the beginning. Being told (while a minor inconvenience) Week 8 that we are switching styles with 2 weeks left would be unacceptable I presume in a actual company.
• Lessons learned
• If you want to hold people accountable, you need to make sure your in a position to.
• Low-poly effect can be difficult to pull-off at times.
• Modeling is a lot less stressful than design, I like and don't like that.
• My blog posts sometimes seem very weak despite the amount content I produced that week.

NEXT TASKS

Final presentation

TOTAL HOURS LOGGED THIS WEEK: 7~ hours