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For our "ghost" character, we have moments in the film where he is supposed to fade into existence. I decided to do this within Unreal so...

This week I have exported the animations we re-targeted and edited in Unreal into Maya so that we can start fixing and adding to it....

Putting our mesh through Accurig Our characters have been properly UV'd so now it is time to start importing them to Unreal. I first...

I have finished retopologizing the body of the cop. I am still working on his clothes but all of his accessories have also been...

I have started the journey of retopologizing our characters. Our models from Zbrush were way too high in in polycount so we took them...

Animations on the Powder rig. Some of it is slightly off but for now its working well enough. I have finally went through the process of...

This week we went in and got most of our motion capture recorded for our animatic screening. It took us a minute, and by that, I mean a...

I have almost completed the Kitchen. Need to model a few more clutter things, appliances, and a table and chairs. But other than that the...

I have finally figured out the weird clipping on the cop character. He is solid and good to go in that department. I had to grab all the...

I have taken a break from working on the characters to getting started on the kitchen. I feel like I needed to step back from the...

Some more progress on this guy. Prepping his mouth currently to get some teeth in there and finish sculpting out the skin and muscles....

I have finally moved on to the "spooky" version of the intruder. This guy will be throughout most of the film and have some full body...

So far I have started modeling three characters; our cop, the intruder, and the ghost/demon guy. Started in Zbrush and got the faces...

We were able to get together as a whole team and go over the transitions, order, and anything else that needs fixing. Its rare for all of...

So we have gotten a lot further on our storyboard. And sadly our production pass didn't show that because we kind of fumbled the animatic...

This week we have almost completely finished the characters concept art. We have a few versions of the grandmas clothing that need to be...

This week we have have realized that some shots in our story board are a bit inconsistent when it comes to setting of where she is. So we...

So, I am still going on concept art. I have the police man almost finished up but now we have at least one rendered piece for each of our...

This week we are still working on concept art. So far i have started to render all the concept art we have so far, which is mostly the...

Our first week back with the new group has been very promising. The basis of the story was already pretty strong so we were pretty quick...