This is the weirdest week I think anybody could have. It started off normal enough, I was working on some more facial blend shapes and more armor rigging. I got the blend shapes to a point where I felt they were looking good. I even started some small facial animation to test them. The mayor's armor was also created so I was able to add those pieces to the rig. Because I knew the mayor would have bulky armor, I had the motion capture actor restrict his movements a bit. This way I was able to add every single piece of the armor through parent constraints. 

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Speaking of motion capture, I continued my adventure from previous weeks to get more captured. We have two characters that needed motion capture, George and the Mayor, so I've been trying to keep track of what we still need to do. At this point, I have a lot captured and characterized, just not applied to the actual character.

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We were challenged by our professor to get some test renders out, and while they were rough, I was able to successfully get at least 2 rendered shots out. It took me along time to figure out how to assemble scenes, but I got there. That reminds me, I was also put in charge of scene assembly. I've never attempted to assemble a scene before so this is all new to me. At this point I've gotten about 3 shots assembled but they aren't very pretty. I have to work on how the workflow will go.

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All of this is prior to the event that really defined the rest of the semester. The Corona Virus outbreak. It had been talked about in the weeks previous but it really kicked up this week. I was notified on Friday that I needed to have everything cleaned out by the end of the day and we wouldn't be allowed back in for the rest of the semester. Naturally this also meant I would not have access to the motion capture suit. Luckily we were close enough to be able to capture the rest of the animation we needed within one day. I was really lucky to have kept on track with capturing animation or else we would have been really out of luck. Anyways that's the end to probably the weirdest week I've had in the project. Within one day I had to completely change what I had planned in terms of motion capture and really production in general.