Finishing the Heritage Project

Sunday 15th May 2016:

The Heritage Project was in a very unfinished state; due for public showing the following day myself, 2 fellow students and our tutor all met up to give the project one last push and have it in a somewhat finished state for the following day.

I showed up a little later than everyone else did, but as soon as I was set-up I was on my way with helping to make (in my opinion) a mini miracle. Firstly  was set with fixing any models that were broken, inaccurate, or didn’t quite look right.

After this I had to leave for a few hours, but everyone else worked away and managed to get some more done. When I got back I carried on working through the list of things to do; when that list was done the other 2 students went home because they were tired, but me and my tutor stayed and made a new list of everything that still needed doing. Working through this new list I was actually surprised with how quickly we worked through it. I also learned a new way of modelling for specific situations; spline modelling, I never thought of modelling that way but it was surprisingly effective, more so than normal polygon modelling.

By this point it was the early hours of Monday morning, the day the project was going to the public.

Monday 16th May:

Early in the morning, myself and my tutor are hard at work making the project look presentable; doing any means necessary to fill in missing buildings, fix broken ones and add anything that is needed. By 3am we had finished making everything look presentable, and started working on directing the video. For 2 1/2 hours we toiled over different camera angles, panning speeds and focal points. Finally we were happy with the end product, and the reactions from everyone else when showing it seemed similar. However, before we got that far we had some new issues arise; parts of the final render had corrupted so we had to trawl through the footage to find the few frames that were broken and remove them. Because of this we missed the start of our public presentation, meaning we had to push it back by 1 1/2 hours until we had fixed everything. Once everything was sorted myself, and my two tutors, took it down to the library where it was being shown.

Verdict:

The public loved our presentation and seemed very interested in the history behind the project. As a result, we now have an offer of having the project being shown in 2017 for the City of Culture event that is happening in Hull.