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Its almost over.
I admittedly have had a difficult time this past week as I have wrapped up the majority of my production based work, and the film is...
Andy Yankovich
Apr 16, 20231 min read
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Effects and Feedback
This week I have been tying up as many loose ends as possible. We have reached a really rewarding period of production where our film is...
Andy Yankovich
Mar 31, 20232 min read
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Crowd System Breakdown
For the production of Dim, my team needed a system to animate a crowd of silhouette characters. We needed them to react and have some...
Andy Yankovich
Mar 10, 20232 min read
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No fun Nonsense
This was another week where I had set out to finalize some systems we have yet to see in the short film, i.e. the collars on the...
Andy Yankovich
Feb 24, 20232 min read
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Effects Showcase and Project Clean Up
This week I resolved a handful of large problems with our project's character effects system, polishing the materials and getting a much...
Andy Yankovich
Feb 17, 20231 min read
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Patch Notes 2-3-23
This week our team has nearly wrapped up our animation blocking for our goal to compile a fully 3D Animatic. Although that deadline has...
Andy Yankovich
Feb 3, 20231 min read
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Our Last Semester Begins
So far this semester is off to a really strong start. We have 3 months to finish our film and we are working through Animation, Layout,...
Andy Yankovich
Jan 27, 20232 min read
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(Blog Post 6)
I have finished rigging characters and been able to return to a more active "production manager" role. It's been a long road and the rigs...
Andy Yankovich
Dec 18, 20221 min read
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Wrapping Up The Semester
We have found ourselves cutting scope as much as we can, which is always painful when it means getting rid of peoples hard work, but we...
Andy Yankovich
Dec 8, 20222 min read
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Puppet Master
As we've drawn closer to the end of the semester I have had to re-evaluate the amount of time I've been spending on this project. Having...
Andy Yankovich
Nov 6, 20222 min read
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The House of Cards
As we push closer to our deadline with 7 weeks remaining, I feel the house of cards, the Jenga tower, the project, shaking. Over the past...
Andy Yankovich
Oct 17, 20223 min read
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Rigging, Retargeting, and More
Last week I was out of town, so I did my best to make up for lost time. I started by Modeling one of our characters. They were around 35%...
Andy Yankovich
Sep 23, 20223 min read
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Weeks 1 Through 3, Fall 2022
This semester has already been busy. From putting together Presentations, teaching my team the basics of Unreal Engine and Stylized...
Andy Yankovich
Sep 8, 20221 min read
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Week 3 Summary, Team Meeting
(Week 3 summary, not week four like I'd said in the video)
Andy Yankovich
Jul 15, 20221 min read
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Andy Yankovich
Jun 28, 20220 min read
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Summer, Week 2: Models, Materials, and More
This week I tackled the creating and organizing Master Materials and their file structures, Set Dressing and Modeling, and other things...
Andy Yankovich
Jun 28, 20222 min read
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Summer, Week 1: From Dim to Dark
This was the first week of my intended 8 weeks of summer production, and of course, nothing went as planned. Sunday night as 10PM we lost...
Andy Yankovich
Jun 16, 20225 min read
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Summer: the plan
Weeks 1 through 14, were written through my Spring Semester of my Junior year of College. They were posts written in large part for my...
Andy Yankovich
Jun 9, 20222 min read
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Weeks 12-14: Stepping Up and Stepping Down.
These past two weeks we have had some major developments within production. We held Role Elections, and I was unanimously voted to...
Andy Yankovich
Apr 18, 20221 min read
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Week 9-11: Addressing Problems.
These past couple of weeks we have attempted to return to the core of what our story is about, with basic themes and seven steps. I have...
Andy Yankovich
Apr 3, 20221 min read
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