Week Summary: Nov 5-9

This week we:

- Finished the detail model of the tree in maya
- Got a first-pass of the music
- Recorded the Spanish Voice Over
- Determined animation timings and pace
- Finished the detailed OWL charechtor
- Started Animation
- finished the art for the owl's house
- got 7.1 sound working
- got video to play reasonably
- figured out a good codec
- made a sweet DMX application
- made a video of the 'Legend of the Pillow Tree"
- kept the blog up to date
- were awesome TAs

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Brendan will:
- Finish up all the lighting passes, and document a lighting scheme
- determine if it makes any sense to get the maya model into solidworks

Anuja will:
- Work with staque to make music
- Get the sound effects all sorted out
- Record the English V/O
- Organize GKTW letters sent to the ETC
- work on animation (cleanup)

Karin will:
- work on animation (key)

Rob will:
- work on animation
- integrate animations into show
- integrate audio into show
- document codebase, so it can be modified later (adding com, adding
language changes, etc)
- automate program start and computer boot

Rich will:
- make functional demo input devices
- mockup functional tree
- work on animation

Evan will:
- figure out the plan for the last few weeks, accounting for a
possible big BVW show commitment
- work on total project documentation (inclusive of what we can't do
this semester)
- encode animations as they are done

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Also... Here's the IAAPA Plan

Wed - Team drives to airport.
- Fly to orlando
- get in cab, go to hotel, check in
- go to conference
- TEA Party

Thurs - Go to conference
- go to disney world

Friday - go to conference
- go to GKTW

Saturday - go home to PGH

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Also... Here's the plan for Thanksgiving week (Nov 19 - 23)

Rob will be gone all week
Karin will be gone all week
Evan will leave monday night

By the end of the week:
- we need to have all the animations done and encoded
- we need all the audio to be done, with the music muxed in
- The system needs to be ready for play testing
- we need to have a plan to build the tree mockup at the ETC