• Story Board
• Model making
• General Planning
• Rough version of first sequence made (storyboard 1-6)
• Worked on SIGGRAPH 98 Application
  

• Sent in SIGGRAPH 98 applications
• Programmed rock capture (storyboard 11 -12)
• Dave made a morpher.

Need to refine rox chase - not really getting sense of being chased.

• Started planning Thing Brain
• Concentrating on the Thing teaching the user to dance.
• Made Video and applied to AEC, cyberstar, digital salon
• Experiments with Thing voice for shoot
• Also made rox sounds
• Also more motion capture for Thing
• Wrote article for Animation World Mag - Animation in the CAVE
  

The voice experiment is my voice doubled with one of the voices
shifted in pitch. Not convinced this is a final solution.

• Contacted AEC directly about showing in the CAVE at the festival and also sent the video to Jutta, Gerfried and Horst
• Planning and Programming Brain
• Guerilla VR proposal accepted for SIGGRAPH Digital Pavilions
• Asked to send more info to cyberstar
• Made sound bites and motion capture for the Thing teaching the
  user the dance sequence.
  

• Final with a version of the TEACHDANCE sequence (storyboard 7, 8, 9)
• Classes made = tgBrain (partially), tgAction, tgActionStore, tgLocalBodyDCS and tgStory (but is this last really necessary)
• Not made = tgGlobalBodyDCS tgChecker. tgUserInfo, tgEmotions
• Plan to network the Thing for SIGGRAPH 98. One user, at the I-Desk 2 will interact with the Thing, the other, at the I-Desk 3, will act as the checker, watching to see if the user has complied with the dance step and also determing the Thing's emotional state. There will be 4 states, angry, sad, manic, happy. The I-desk 3 user will see the I-Desk2 user's avatar but be invisible.
• Revised goal of having the networked version ready for SIGGRAPH as far as the rox's getting the girl (storyboard 1 - 13/4)

• Sam on board to revise the rox sequence, models first then code to make it work on the I-Desk.
• Abhinav to help with networking code and interface for second user - Sam has code for menu stuff that will stay on the front of the screen.
• Sound - need to finish processing the soundfiles I already made for the teachdance sequence. And refix the ones I already processed so that the angry and manic ones are louder than the happy and depressed ones.
• Sound - need to record sound for the beginning of the teach dance sequence (storyboard 7 ) and also for the very end when the thing flies off in a huff. (storyboard 9 - 10)
• Need to motion capture actions to go with sounds - fix tgRecorder to make this all more automatic
• Tail - need to process files and motion capture appropriate tail movements for each action
• Code - need GlobalBodyDCS, Flasher -Dave to put event messaging into xpSound and don't forget I need to be able to make a tgNavigator
• AEC - check to see if videotape arrived

• Finish sound and motion capture for storyboard 1 - 13
• Focus on moment when Thing starts interaction with user, starts to teach the dance - must be clear and forceful!
• Networking code and interface for second user - the controller
  What will controller do prior to Thing's appearance and during rox chase?
• Rox Chase code that works on I-Desk
• Some version of tgEmotion, tgChecker, tgUserInfo
• sound - more experiments if time

• Finish working version for SIGGRAPH - storyboard 1 - 13
• SIGGRAPH

• If AEC - finish tgEmotion, userInfo, Checker
• Working CAVE version for AEC - storyboard 1 - 13

• AEC?

• If the voice is not done - do it
• Program/model etc second part of story
• Refine Brain
• Refine visuals
• Apply to more competitions
• Write and submit articles

• Show