The Final Week

Thesis Year - Blog Post 12

All thesis paper writings linked here. My first appointment with the Clark Writing Center is tomorrow at 3PM. We’ll be working on the support point 1 draft, prepping it for inclusion of writings directly about my project. Depending how helpful the meeting is, I will schedule my next one right afterwards, likely for post-Thanksgiving.

Project side, this is the final week of work. Final presentation slide templates will be provided, saving me a little work – the team will mostly transition away from project tasks (like the Coughing Coffin art piece below) toward prepping for the final presentation.

The only exceptions being members with tasks directly related to enhancing the presentation – Matt and Ed’s work mainly (Ed completing the Museum Environment and Matt importing it to Unity and recording himself exploring the space). I am expecting to see Ed’s progress in the coming days, the ideal scenario is he is done by Wednesday and we can fully concentrate of simply prepping for the final presentation. Even if this isn’t the case however, the worst scenario would simply be that work on the environment/recording continues for 1 extra week, we’d still be done before deadline, it’d just be a little tighter than hoped.

The team and myself are prepping for transition to a more art focused studio. With the main writing, design, and priority audio work finished, art will be the focus next semester. One of my designers and one of my writers have expressed interest in 2D art work, couple this with the 2D artist we already have, the environments completion meaning Ed can shift focus of other 3D assets, my shift in focus to 3D assets for the upcoming break and following semester, the two 3D artists we already have, and the possibility of more joining next semester, we will have at least 7 artists for next semester (hopefully enough to get us past the finish line next year).

We are, for all intents and purposes, in a very good place, everyone seems to like the project and that makes me hopeful we can make something really special that could actually be published and released one day, something to proudly write on a resume, a piece of art about a pandemic that won’t fully disappear or be fully forgotten about so easily.

There will be 2 more posts this semester - a post this Sunday 11/21 (hopefully with lots of pictures), and the final one will go up Sunday 12/05 (with the final presentation linked).