Timeline

Week 1:

• Write brief 
• Research
• Design character 

Week 2: 

• Modify character after feedback (legs, how does he walk)
• Research walk cycle, animals to base his walk/legs from
• Draw skeleton and muscle diagram of character
• Draw finals of my character
• Character sheets
• Figure out what textures go where on my character/props
• Block in character in Zbrush
• Start sculpting character

Week 3:

• More muscle and anatomy studies (of other animals and my character) on paper
• Draw character standing vs sitting
• Muscle studies in Zbrush 
• Experiment textures and colours 
• Sculpting character in loose T pose (research Z pose)
• Start modeling props in Maya
• Create formative assessment PDF 

Week 4:

• Sculpting character
• Formative assessment 
• Import Maya models to Zbrush and sculpt
• Create transparent window in cabinet (Transparency in Zbrush, BPR Transparency)
• Research hair tutorials

Study Week 1:

• Finish character
• Finish props/Finish window 
• Start hair on character 

Study Week 2:

• Cont. hair

Week 5:

• Finish hair
• Start texturing character/props

Week 6:

• Texturing
• Tutorials on lighting

Week 7: 

• Lighting character
• Research Rendering

Week 8:

• Finish lighting
• Start rendering character (How many stills do I want to render?)

Week 9: 

• Rendering character
• Research Image compositing

Week 10:

• Finish rendering 
• Start image compositing 
• Create backgrounds in Photoshop

Week 11:

• Finalizing Image(s)
• Planning presentation speech 
• PDF presentation/ report of research
• Small project documenting technical research applied to a context

Week 12:

• Practice presentation 
• Present
• Hand in