S.P.O.T.

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During the late 1980s the US was still involved in a Cold War with the Soviet Union. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the United States Department of Defense (DOD) signed of on Plan O.U.T., in conjunction with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Plan O.U.T.'s purpose was to rage chemical warfare on the USSR by poisoning the water supplies of Soviet cities. The CIA would finalize the oepration when the chemical warfare agent (CWA), code named S.P.O.T. was to be transported in planes by the CIA and dropped on its designated targets, in what would have been known as Operation D.A.M.N. DARPA hired independent laboratories to develop the CWA. This CWA was meant to as an incapacitating agent, which could be developed so that it could not be removed from the water by any water purification methods known to the Soviets. But by the summer of 1990, operation O.U.T. was seen as unnecessary and dissolved. The CIA and DOD left the clean up of the chemicals created to the independent laboratories. One of these, LabTek Laboratories Inc., knowingly kept the S.P.O.T. prototype.

Enviroments

here are some screenshoots of the Enviroments indoor and outdoor.

Janitor Turn-Around

Here's a 2 pt turn for now. Should be enough for modeling. Will continue and add the other turns ( back, 3/4 back and 3/4 front).

Prop Design Ideas

These are some of the prop design ideas i had. this is just a rough start, still experimenting and getting more ideas

Teams And Production Schedule

I have done a team assignment and production schedule based on what i have been seeing in class. For the team assignment I have made teams based on what everyone has been doing and what everyone might want to do. The people with the asterisk by their names will be the leads of their team. They will make sure everything is going smoothly for their team and work out any problem that may arise. One of the reasons I decided to make teams is so people can work closer together with others doing do the same type of work. Also I would like critiques to be handle by the teams instead of the whole class. I think that would save us time and be more helpful. For the production schedule I have tried to set it up were the bulk of the work will be done by around week 6 so we have the rest of the time to refine and catch up.


Modeling
*Louis
Anibal
Marisol
Shawn
Darren
Veronica

-Character
Louis

-Props
Marisol
Shawn
Darren
Veronica


-Environments
Anibal




Concept
*Nino
Darren
Dipesh
Humberto
Veronica

-Character
Nino
Darren
Veronica

-Props
Dipesh
Nino
Darren
Humberto

-Laser
Dipesh

-Doomsday
Darren
Nino
Humberto

-Jackhummer
Dipesh

-Flamethrower
Darren



FX
*Shawn
Dipesh


Page Layout
*Dipesh
Nino
Humberto
Veronica


Storyboard
*Humberto
Nino
Dipesh


Rigging
*Louis






Week 4
Go Through Team Assignments
Main Character Concept Complete
Start Modeling Main Character
Go Through Folder and Blog
Week 5
Complete Concepts of Main Prop (laser, jackhammer, doomsday, flamethrower)
Complete most of the background props models
Do test renders of the environment
Full Color of the Main Character
Start Modeling Main Prop
Week 6
Start Bible
Test Layouts
Rigging
Textures/Shaders

Head Turn-Around

Louis - Here's a 4 pt turn of the face. You'll see that there are 2 sides, the only difference is the hair and how it's formed. For the Left Side, the hair basically fuses to the rest of the hair. Follow the size of the head with the turns, I noticed that with the hat his head is smaller so ignore that one. I want to work closely with you on the face so if you have questions, just let me know.

Here is a front and profile view for the character modeling portion, Nino if you want to edit this abit more if his body is not looking up to par with what you were going for. Just hope this is enough for louis to begin modeling the character with.

Rough Boards

Please keep in mind that these are rough boards and still need a lot of flushing out. Don't hesitate to state your opinion good or bad. Hell, do a paint over if its easier, it's all good :)

Goin the janitor, Darren's Roughs

Here are my roughs if people still want to go over them, and look at them. i am still working on a clean up

The Script...so far

SCENE 1
Late night at Labtek Labs after closing
A janitor has just finished cleaning a hallway on the first floor. As he is cleaning the last bit in the hallway, the camera cuts to other rooms that are absolutely spotless. When he finally finishes he turns around to look at his handy work. He turns around and starts to walk away. He hears a drop, and stops in his footsteps. He immediately turns around. Camera POV looking around and then to lock on to an obsolete stain to immediately zoom in. Cut to the curious faced janitor. He walks up to the stain and bends down to scrutinize it; wondering how he missed it in the first place and/or where it came from. He mops over the stain. Nothing happens. He bends down and tries to scratch it off, but it is too hard. He stands back and stares at it. He takes out his spray bottle full of cleaner and a brush. He sprays and wipes vigorously, but to no avail. All he ends up making is bubbles around the spot.
SCENE 2
He decides to take drastic measures. He goes into the janitor’s closet. He drags a floor buffer towards the spot. He plugs in the power cord, gets electrocuted and flies across the room. As he is lying motionless on the ground, the buffer starts to work and goes in his direction, crashing into him. Frustration starts to set in.
SCENE 3
He puts on goggles, earmuffs, and gloves and brings out a jackhammer. This stain is getting off one way or another. He turns it on, unsure at first he gets the hang of it, but suddenly he starts to lose control. The jackhammer starts to move him left and right, back and forth. It finally pushes him back, away from the stain, which still is not gone. The jackhammer is too powerful to control and finally pushes him out of the two story window.
SCENE 4
We see a wide angle shot of the hallway with the spot in the foreground, the janitor’s giant foot steps in and comes into focus. His other foot comes in frame and the camera tilts up we see him holding a flame thrower and then we look at the janitor with an insane look in his face. The janitor aims the igniter toward the spot and flames come out. The flames cover the floor and surround the janitor. He looks up and shakes his fists up into the air in triumphantly. We see the sprinklers on the ceiling turning on, then we see him getting soaked in water and the flames dying and turning into smoke.
SCENE 5
Now that he’s really pissed off he pushes a large experimental laser into the hallway. He shoots at the spot and nothing happens. The janitor stares in amazement, he rapidly pushes down on the buttons to shoot. The lasers bounces off the spot and shoot towards the walls and windows he then it bounces off the spot goes up toward the ceiling, bounces off of it, hits a wall and bounces toward a window. It finally bounces off the window and goes toward the laser machine. When it finally does hit the machine, nothing happens. He thinks the coast is clear but the machine suddenly explodes and covers the hall in smoke and debris.
SCENE 6
As the smoke starts to clear you see a shadow covered figure coming toward us. Darth Vader? Nope. just a disgruntled janitor carrying some mechanical contraction. He carries something looking like a cross between a tripod, a telescope, a drilling rig and a leveling instrument. It’s covered in DANGER, EXPLOSIVE, BIOHAZARD and CAUTION stickers. He sets it over the spot and we see a drop of some unknown substance fall from top of the towering machine. Just as the drop touches the spot, white light immerses the room. We cut to a satellite circulating the earth and as it passes over we see the huge explosion from space. The janitor opens his eyes and is surrounded by the rubble of the destroyed building. He looks down and sees a piece of tile, the same tile with the spot.

Goin the Janitor

Here's one of the initial passes for the janitor. Still waiting for Darren's version. Let's get the character started this week as it's already Week 3. The faster we move the less work we have to catch up with next quarter.

The character we should go for is someone we can empathize with. I think an old man, maybe frail, is ideal. Still an able-body, hunched from all the hard work he's done evident from how spotless the facility is. I've talked to Dipesh and Humberto and thought about Darren's sketches, and we think that they look too hillbilly and inbred. We just don't think they fit the story, specially when he's going from sane to insane. These are just a few of our thoughts and I'm open to criticism. We want the best possible character design in this short about of time.

This is still a preliminary design and is subject to change. A few more should come up. Please post your thoughts.

Modeling threads

Okay guys, It's about time we started posting models. Throw what you've got up here in a new thread so you can get easy feedback on your models and keep the blog somewhat organized. When posting images of your models, make sure you post at least two different angles of it so we can get a better sense of what you are doing. Screenshots of models will do fine. If you want to post renders however, make sure you use ambient occlusion, otherwise a lot of the form gets lost. If you have any questions about posting models, ask here.

p.s.: For those who were expecting me at school today, I won't be able to make it. So if you could post the character turns and design up here today, I'll start modeling tomorrow. Thanks.

First laser test

I put my first laser test in our folder on zuul. feel free to tell me what you all think, it can be edited rather easily to suit our needs. I forgot to turn reflectivity off on the walls so that's why it looks a little funky when it get close to it. I also only did one smoke hit so obviously their would be smoke on every laser hit. I also am making progress on the flame thrower its probably the hardest effect of the whole piece so that one will take a little while.

Zuul

new reference material on our folder!