Since I submitted my timeline, I have composed the music for my animation. I have had it reviewed by a graduate music student at Ithaca College. He gave me feedback on what to change to make the music more appealing. I went back and edited my composition to add more appeal to the song itself, after all I want people to enjoy the music. I have now remade my timeline as well, I just want to have the models done and textured by the end of the year. I have delegated the Cello off to Xian and the Marimba off to Stacia as I will not be able to model all the high detail instruments and the environment.
I've been in contact with my mentor a few times, not sure exactly how many as I see him in other classes and can talk to him then as well. He has reviewed my music and likes it and knows who I've appointed tasks to, I still need to give him my new timeline, then it just comes to modeling instruments.
My timeline has changed a little bit, It is still basically on the same path except I just made it a very general models and textures done by the end of the year. This is because I haven't had a lot of time with all my other classes and my job to do a bunch of work on this project, however over some of these breaks I will be able to knock out a lot of work fairly quick. In addition to that change, I also have made my timeline more condensed in the Spring. I added a new goal to my project which is to get an actual guitar with robotic parts set up to plug into my computer and play itself through a USB output. I have a friend who works with a lot of robotics who is actually going to work for a robotic part manufacturing plant next month who is going to assist me in setting all of that up. I'd like to have my animation completely done about a month before capstone to be able to get this new addition built and working which I'm not sure how to do it so there will be a lot of research and experimentation involved.
As far as I know there aren't really any true key things I need to have done before the start of next semester. I have the goal of getting the models done but it isn't really a key thing, just a preferred thing. Everything that was a key thing is done. Idea building and concept drawings are all done as well as composition, so I am to the point of all 3D work and that is where I wanted to be before next year.
The only significant change would be I added an instrument that wasn't planned. I wasn't planning on having a Cello but when composing I thought it sounded nice.
If you are my friend on Facebook you can go to my videos and the first one should be the music for my animation. If you aren't and wanna hear it just let me know because that is the only location that it lives on the web at.
On a final note I'm really excited about getting this to move forward but it is at a standstill at the moment as this semester comes to a close and I have loads of final projects to get done.
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