Introduction

          This purpose of this blog is to record the progress I make leading up to the completion of my final showreel and exit plan from university, detailing and explaining the decisions I make and processes I take.

Reflection on PPD1 short term plan:

          For the final entry in my PPD1 blog I wrote a short term exit plan. One point in the plan was to continue work on the ARK game that I was apart of and to use it within my showreel if I thought the work was good enough. Looking at the animations I believe I will indeed keep them in the showreel, as well as the motion capture animations I did for my dissertation. Both of them present what I am targeting my showreel for (game animation) as well as my ability to be flexible and use different techniques and software to produce the results needed.

Currently I have no animation for the lip syncing that I wanted to do as part of the 11 Second Club's monthly contest. Time is short currently and I have made the decision to remove this segment from my showreel unless I find time towards the end of the semester before university ends, and if not then I plan on doing the animation once I have exited university.

I underestimated the time I needed to dedicate for my dissertation, and so the plan to produce a few animations catering to first person shooter games never developed. Though again this is something I am aiming to do if I have enough time, and if not then certainly after university.

I did get chance to enquire at Crytek Nottingham about presenting my showreel to them, if for nothing else than critique from their animation department. The person I spoke with said to contact him again once I had the showreel completed, and so I intend to at the end of the semester.

My final short term point was to start work on my website design in the sense of finding the right hosting service and tools to build the site. This is something that I will post a separate entry to later on in this blog as it goes in depth.