[General] Character Production Plan

Aaran Griffiths
[23/10/14]

This is the first pass on a production plan that will run through the course of the project, we've been tasked with the retopology of multiple enemy characters for 'Street Fist 2' and animatics, I've created a team gantt chart that runs in correlation with this production plan. They are both subject to change throughout the duration of the project, we also decided on having individual progression charts to illustrate individual targets. As we're only retopologizing characters and animating movements for those characters, the production plan and gantt chart will be in a slightly different format. Aidan and Jenna have been given around 3 weeks to completely retopologize a character whereas Richard and myself have been given an extra 2 (5 weeks) to complete a character. Here is the plan:
Week 1&2

As we had no set tasks during the first week, our individual tasks consisted of learning how to use the quad draw tool and to add key frames with animation. We then had to look for tutorials online for the upcoming weeks.

Planned: Tutorials (Retopology)

Reality:  Tutorials (Retopology)

Week 3

With lecture tutorials and self studied tutorials viewed, we had been allocated enemies to start retopology on.

Planned:  Aidan & Jenna - half of first retopologized character, Aaran & Rich - head of first retopologised character

Reality: Aidan & Jenna - half of first retopologized character, Aaran & Rich half of the head of first retopologized character

Week 4

Aidan & Jenna - first retopologized character completed at the end of the week, Aaran & Rich - moved on to torso and arms.

Planned: Aidan & Jenna - first retopologized character completed, Aaran & Rich - moved on to torso and arms
Reality: Aidan & Jenna - first retopologized character completed, Aaran & Rich - half of head/head completion due to implications and Rich torso and arms

Week 5

Aidan & Jenna - second character started, Aaran & Rich - completion of torso and arms, move on to hands, legs and feet.

Planned: Aidan & Jenna - second character started, Aaran & Rich - completion of torso and arms, move on to hands, legs and feet

Reality: Aidan & Jenna - second character started, Aaran & Rich - 

Week 6

Aidan & Jenna - second character halfway mark, Aaran & Rich - first character completion.

Planned: Aidan & Jenna - second character halfway mark, Aaran & Rich - first character completion

Reality:*

Week 7

Aidan & Jenna - progress on second retopologized character, Aaran & Rich - started the head and torso of second character.

Planned: Aidan & Jenna - progress on second retopologized character, Aaran & Rich - started the head and torso of second character
Reality:*

Week 8

Aidan & Jenna - completion of second character, Aaran & Rich - start on hands legs and feet of second character.

Planned: Aidan & Jenna - completion of second character, Aaran & Rich - start on hands legs and feet of second character

Reality:*

Week 9&10

Aidan & Jenna - start modelling third character and finalise them at the end of week 10, Aaran & Rich - finish second model. 

Planned: 
Aidan & Jenna - start modelling third character and finalise them at the end of week 10, Aaran & Rich - finish second model

Reality:*

Week 10-15

Planned: Week 12 and 13 would mark the completion of all our characters and the following 2 would primarily focus on presentation work.

*Judging on our plan here, either the production plan or gantt chart needs to change, as it stands Aidan & Jenna will only be able to finish 3/4 characters and Rich and myself will only be able to complete 2 which is a character less than we initially planned*

Reality:*