Thursday, May 17, 2012

Thesis List of Expectations

Thesis: Cinematic Cameras - Working with Pre-Rendered Cut Scenes vrs Real Time and How to make them synonymous.

Modeling Requirements:

  • Simple Environment
  • Simple Character
    • Character will most likely be a re-purposed character that can be switched later on due to time. or tpose
    • Will need a very simple animation loop on it so
  • Textures will probably be a simple Occlusion Pass rather than anything fancy

Camera Requirement:
  • Design a cinematic camera to convey a simple story of the motion capture studio
    • Story board will be provided along with research on why I use the shots that I use
  • Set up cameras in Maya
Pipeline Requirement
  • Find a way to transfer the pre created information out of Maya and use it to control camera movement in at least one engine (UDK or Vision)
  • Depending on the difficulty and time involved bringing it into the first engine I will attempt to get it into the second engine- but this will be a low priority.