(blog post number 10) WEBSITE!!!!!

To help ADVERTISE our new film we decided to create a WEBSITE! please visit it now at

www.goingdownfilm.co.uk

Joe Henson layed everything out in photoshop and I coded it all in flash and did little bits of animation and links to other sites. We had to buy the domain name and then set up the FTP SERVER to get it all on line. All in all a good thing I think!

(blog post number 09) GOOGLE CALENDAR

Over this project, one thing that has really helped has been using GOOGLECALENDARto plan my time acordingly for DISSERTATION, GOINGDOWN and CHIAROSCURO projects. I assigned small TASKS for EACH DAY at the beginning of the term, and I have more or less stuck to them so far!

THIS IS MY INDIVIDUAL CALENDAR

AND THIS IS MY GROUP CALENDAR!

(blog post number 08) DROPBOX!!!!!

DROPBOX is amazing. what it does is hosts your files on a cloud server somewhere, then distributes the most up to date files to all machines that are connected to the account. there are obviously some issues with it such as unwanted duplicates and CONFLICTED COPIES appearing, but this is nothing compared with the benefits of having files update on every computer in the group. a downside is BANDWIDTH however.

LAND or LOCAL AREA NETWORK DRIVES can also be used with great benefit if everyone is connected to the same local network. what this means is that you SHARE folder on a host computer, and all other machines specify a LOCAL IP ADDRESS and selection name of the folder and link to it. This works a lot BETTER than DROPBOX as the updating is quicker and DOSNT USE BANDWIDTH. However this can't be used outside of this network.

(blog post number 07) My PIPELINE with REFERENCING

During the last couple of years, I and my GROUP have been using something called REFERENCING. this means that in maya you are not working directly ON an ASSET but WITH an ASSET. this is an important difference as it means the ASSET CAN BE UPDATED as you are using it.this esentially means the modeller can be modelling, while the rigger is rigging, while the animator is animating, while the lighter is lighting. beautiful. BUT what is the use when all the work is on only one computer? in the next post Iwill talk about DROPBOX.