Chess Games CS 419 Winter 2002 Maya Project

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Chess GamesCS 419 Winter 2002 Maya Project

• David Lim, Brandon Whitehead, Sean Callan,
  Valentine Kristanto, Yong-Chul Cho, Paul Cook,
• Dr. Ronald Metoyer

Thursday, March 14, 2002
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Story

• The most difficult part of the project
• Main goal is to entertain and humor audience
• The storyline allowed us to add, remove, change,
  and assign scenes easily
• Small number characters and props

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Visual Style

• Cartoon style derived from story concept
• Cartoon style made modeling, animating, and
  rendering simpler
• Simple textures and color scheme helped minimize
  the need for realism
• Chess models modeled from pictures of real chess
  pieces

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Storyboards

• A project template for modeling, scene setup, and
  animation

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Modeling

• Chess models mainly consist of revolved surfaces
  and polygonal shapes
• Models were built simple to keep visual style and
  minimize rendering time
• Standardized base used in construction of chess
  piece models

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Modeling
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Modeling
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Standardization

• All models were built separately, so scaling
  became an issue
• Skeleton structures
• Rotational, movement, and scaling centers were
  set uniformly
• Standardized set of materials

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Layout

• For scene consistency, there were two main
  layouts of the chessboard
• The layouts were the starting points for each
  scene animation so that pieces in the background
  would maintain positions

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Layout
Chessboard Layout 1
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Layout
Chessboard Layout 2
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Cameras Lighting

• For each layout, cameras for each scene were
  placed as suggested views for animations
• There are five lights that provide illumination

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Organization

• Two tools for communication
• Email mailing list
• Group spreadsheet

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Animation

• Tell the story visually
• Life-like motion is difficult, needed to be
  smooth and used Disneys techniques
• Collision detection
• Pacing, speed, timing, and duration

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Animation
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Post Production

• Rendered frames sequenced in Adobe Premier
• Music, sound effects, titles and credits added
• Special effects added
• Editing and revision

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Thoughts

• More work in pre-production
• An exploration on possible technologies
• Better group collaboration and integration

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Questions?