I've been looking over my background designs lately. I got help from two people yesterday and today. Darren Kiner is a professor here and is helping my set up rendering for my scenes. I'm not even close to the rendering part of my thesis but he is showing me how to set up the scenes for the optimal look. I'm going to be rebuilding the backgrounds soon and I will organize them the way he told me.

A friend good with design, Ashley Armstrong, looked over my design and gave me some good sketches of how I should set up the shots. I will probably be setting up the background differently for each shot so that everything looks good. It won't make sense continuity-wise but will be better looking.

Busy month! I've been putting in ten hour days almost every day since my last post. Got lots of done though.

I've been working on background design. Haven't found a background designer but I've got some interactive media major friends who have agreed to help me out a little.

Motion capture is finished. I cast my actors which was a bit of a pain. I was able to cast two really good ones. Last week I shot my thesis in six hours. Since then I've been cleaning up data. I'm about halfway done.