PIRATES OF THE 7 SEASONINGS
"Pirates of the 7 Seasonings" (2020) is a SCAD Collaborative Film. I was the Producer and Technical Director for this project.
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The film is about a retired pirate, who works as a chef in his ship turned deli, and his crew searches the seas looking for the missing ingredient that will transform sandwiches into masterpieces.
My Responsibilities:
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- Technical Director: I rigged the two main characters, a chef and fellow pirate, and various props. After rigging assets, I was responsible for skinning each model to ensure that the characters had proper deformations. In addition, I worked with the team to troubleshoot any issues with the character rigs.
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- Producer: During production, I created standard naming conventions and file organization systems, developed schedules, managed deadlines, and provided dailies for class meetings.
This project was created remotely, due to virtual classes in response to the COVID pandemic, so our team worked from various countries, such as the United States, Singapore, and China. We used online platforms to transfer files and to organize dailies.
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- Pirate Chef Rig: The pirate chef had unique proportions, and I built this custom rig from scratch. This joint driven rig features IK stretchy limbs, a stretchy spine, an infinite twist spine, a switch to change the spatula to a knife on the right hand. Once the layout was created, I painted custom skinweights to create realistic deformations throughout the model. Due to the tight production timeline, this model was rigged and skinned in the span of two weeks, and I continued to refine the rig as I received feedback from the animators.
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- Tree Rig: This was a simple joint driven setup created using a Python script.
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