So, end of the project.
Right. As Mike changed the brief, he also said that this blog isn't going to be assessed, you just need to state what you did, so here I go.
But before I do that I just want to say that the committment from certain people on this project has been beyond poor, despite my efforts to push forward.
This rage post from Gerome pretty much sums up what I feel, and ill explain why:
"I'm sorry but this is ridiculous you lot have decided to not come in because of your own personal priorities (Dom excluded) and you have nothing to show for it!(literally) Me, deon and ash are here less than 2 days before we have to hand this project in and you lot think it's ok to not be here? There are 3 other groups in right now in full doing work and they just laughed at the situation in disbelief.
Sarah, we needed you for texturing but now all of your texturing is gonna be done by deon apart from the branch you made for me. (So sarah has basically nothing to show for this entire project)
Lily, fair enough you animated the spider on the table but I still have yet to see it and if its tracked properly,(She did animate the spider, but it wasn't done well to be honest. The second animation that she was supposed to do was HORRIBLY bad. Of course, I didn't expect the rest of the animation to be done as these two took far too long to complete so we had to take over) as well as the legs coming out my back which i'm sorry, but its poor.. I don't understand why you just didn't use the 3D legs that I made and Dom rigged. Plus the animation of the camera to make sure it matches the real life video clip in full.
Ollie, We have your tracking but as we are not the trackers in the group, we don't know what the hell to do with the files you have given us, so I now have to look at a 14 part tutorial on it and try do the tracking for every scene again.. Also the file is a higher version of after effects than what we have on our machines and also as I have already started to learn about the tracking, I have come to see that it looks like you have just used the auto tracking which, if you have, takes 2 seconds to do and is very poor quality. Also the lighting for the tree and swing (which ash is gonna have to do now) <- Automatic tracking = bad. Files given = we couldn't use because files had to be imported and they were renamed. Not to mention they were the WRONG files. Similar, but not the right ones. What's more annoying though, is how defensive Oly became. Till this day out of all the messages I have on my phone, I don't think she knows she's been talking to an enraged Ash and Gerome. So where are we at now? it means that all those jobs which rely everyone to do to progress has to be done by 3 people in the space of 8 hours to even give us the slightest chance of having enough time to render.. Theirs not even enough time to edit anything at all. This is exactly what happened last project and this is exactly what deon tried to make us avoid, but yet we are stuck doing almost every single fucking thing again because people have other priorities above the group project. You know what makes me more annoyed? I got my stuff done within 4 days (2 days i was off sick from work on a weekend and 2 days on my "days off") because i knew the group was relying on my models to progress, yes there was a few things here and there I could have done slightly better but I got it done quickly and to a pretty dam good standard if you ask me. An once again what gets me evvveennn more annoyed is that if you lot had said, we wont have the time to do anything or we cant do this or that, I would have been annoyed and angry but we would have had the space and time to actually get it done but No.. once again to the last minute we have to rush every thing and hope for the best.. The LAST things that annoys me the most? We will all get either a shit grade for this or a high grade just because we are here working are arses off for work that should have been done 4 days ago.. You can think i'm horrible or just raging but the fact right now is that we can not use what you have given us (that's if you have given us anything) without you here because it is either VERY POOR or something we do not understand and need you to do your job so that we don't need to learn how to do things 8 hours before rendering the fucking final thing.. I'm actually really annoyed.. yes i want to play game, yes i want to go gym, yes i wanna go parkour, yes I wanna do everything that i enjoy or put out to do in my spare time but I CANT DO IT BECAUSE THE GROUPS WORK COMES FIRST. Its a full time course which means you need to work within uni hours if the work needs doing as well as out of hours if the work isn't done. But yet other commitments take priority. I actually can't believe how this is right now and I'l be dammed if I get a shit mark because of this, as I will try my all to get something to show by Friday, as will deon, as will ash. But If you dont expect me to be this angry because of it, you must be fucking kidding me. I like you as people but your commitment to the work mainly because of today and the last few days, i'm appalled and disgusted with. Please give me advice, what should me Deon and Ash do now? just give up because we have done our rolls or do all of your rolls for you so we succeed? Please tell me."
So let me clarify. Let's go back to the roles section:
Deon - Texturing / Concept / Compositing / Sound <- So, like I predicted I ended up doing more. I ended up doing ALL the texturing. The water sky, the terrain. The concept designs for the CG world. The directing. The leading. The compositing (shared with gerome, and from Oly after lots of arguing) The sound (with gerome) The editing. The effects. Additional modelling. Rendering. Compiling, and lighting. So yes, basically everything. Not to mention the amount of sleep I lost, and stress, seeing as I'm the leader and the director. They may not care about failing or doing standard work, but I do.except the parts gerome did, really did help.
Ash then helped quite a bit by taking lighting off my shoulders after I had done quite a bit, but I still helped and gave input to get it done quicker. So from start to finish, in terms of finalizing the idea, the script, the filming of the shots, the compiling etc, was me.
So yes, I ended up doing more than 4x what I was supposed to do, because people couldn't be bothered to do their job, then say they'd get it done, or make up crappy excuses. (Dom is excluded from this because she did her job and did it well. Her father passed away so she hasnt been in uni for a week and a bit.)
You guys have already heard me rant, and you've heard Gerome rant, so I'm not going to rant anymore on here because you guys hopefully know what we've been through. Yes I'm not happy.
Gerome - Modelling / Compositing / Sound ANDDDD RE animating lily's part. Helping giving input on effects. Keying out the green, colour keying, some compositing. Couldn't have done it without him.
Dominique - Modelling / Rigging <- Done. No issue.
Sarah - Texturing <- Nothing to show
Lily - Animation <- A half assed spider and a horrible spider leg animation, done in photoshop.
Oly - Lighting - Instead, did matchmoving and tracking for files we didn't want, need or ask for, then told us to stop being idiots and use it. Only on the last day, when we was given an extension, did she decide to try and be helpful, only to turn into an aggressor the second an issue came up, which was down to her not doing her job properly. Fair do's, she did a bit after constant bitching pretty much. Just for the 'lols', I might actually upload all the messages.
Ash - Lighting - He did his job. Ash also asked me to put his role here as well:
"ANI09204 – Post Production and Visual Effects Ashley Umanee with in my group my main role was lighting in which I set up the lighting for the CGI environment that Gerome, Deon and Dom created , the lighting was fairly simple enough using basic area lights as well as mental rays physical sun and sky to get an overall lighting. As well as lighting I also painted the weights to the rigged spider that Dom both modelled and rigged, painting the weights was a little harder to do because I was unsure how some joints should influence the body this led me to having to look up on youtube and other sites the way in which spiders moved and so on. I enjoyed working with the group however I felt we could of done a lot more with the project if everyone had put their full effort into the work. Some people did not do their roles properly which had led to either Gerome or Deon re doing their part of the work which was unfair I felt. Also dedication to the project from the same people was disappointing when me , deon and gerome would stay at uni till later hours being 10 at night others were not doing the work. Over all I felt there was a divide in the group which was sad to see but has lead me to realise how the workings of the workplace are , if a person is unable to complete the work another must over take it and leave the person unable to do the work out if they do not try harder."
http://deonlitchmore6.blogspot.com/2011/03/faceboo00ok-group-contact-issues.html <- this is just the start of it. If I feel like it ill upload ALL of the conversations / text logs I've had with Oly, Lily, and Sarah.
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