Production Timeline – George
I think I’ll have a far more accurate production timeline once I better assess the availability of completed assets and resources (and permission/conditions for their use) for both the virtual space and its audience. Needless to say, things will go faster if I can use an existing theater model and pre-rigged bodies, for example. This may have to be the case, as animating, programming the audience behaviors and spatial audio (cheers, whoops, applause) seems a little daunting in their own right.
For my project, a more detailed breakdown would appear to be something like this:
March/April
- Continued research, training on Unreal Engine
- Asset acquisition/construction
- Animation/AI behavior implementation
May
- Incorporate audio
- Design/develop parameter controls
– Crowd size, excitement, behavior triggers, etc - Deployment for user testing
– What platform? Web-based would be most accessible for testing, but ultimately ported to Oculus/Vive?
June
- User Testing/Feedback
- Adding insights/improvements
- Documentation & presentation
This seems to be the most logical order to approach this. I could easily distribute my remaining time on the calendar evenly, but that’s not very realistic: some phases of development will clearly take longer than others, so some of this will overlap – and of course, that’s not even allowing for unexpected issues that will inevitably pop up. Hopefully I’ll have a grasp of the viability given the allotted time once I gather the digital assets and start working with them, but there may be some precedents I can use as an indication of what to expect. If not, maybe I can scale down the scope to a smaller “audience” as proof of concept, and keep building on it from there.
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