What we have made is a FLOWCHART and a TIME-ESTIMATE.
Here is my FLOWCHART:
And here is my TIME- ESTIMATE:
Self-reflective text:
I have looked at some different flowcharts. I wonder if my flowchart is to "linear".
In my oppinion, the point of a flowchart is to show that "first you do this- and then you do that". A visual setup for the right order to do things.. But now I wonder if I am wrong. Maybe the point of a flowchart is to show how different parts of the production depends on each other, and also how they kind of "circulate". Maybe THAT is what a flowchart is all about- and not necessarily just the order of when to do things. In my mind it is natural with a "linear" flowchart- since the team consists of one person only. (And one person can just do one thing at the time.) But like I just wrote: Maybe I should have made a flowchart that focuses more on showing how the production parts depends on each other and possibly circulate- no matter if the team consist of one person- or a big team.
Unfortunately I have not had access to my classmates production plans for this project. To bad really- it would have been nice to see how others have solved this.Especially how they have estimated the time for the making of "This Side Up". I have really struggled with the time-estimate. In my time-estimate Liron Topaz has 9,5 weeks to animate 2:30 min. (This Side Up has something like 2:30 min. animation, not including the titles).
2:30 min = 150 sec.
150 sec/ 9,5 weeks= 15 seconds per week.
...15 seconds per week..isn`t that a little too much? I do not like it.
One other thing I do not like, is that the post-production must be done in only one week according to my time-estimate.
I do have 4,5 weeks for the pre-production (including Pre-viz, modeling, rigging and skinning). Is that too much I wonder..
I have analyzed my flowchart over and over again- but I just cant get this right.I must say- there is nothing about my time-estimate that i DO like. But at the same time- I just dont know how to do it better. So I hope that my tutors will provide me with feedback- and tell me where I have done wrong. Right now my only conclution is that there is no way that Liron Topaz made this film in 16 weeks.




