Intern’s log pt1-prt2

Okay as part of the ‘digital media course’ 3rd year requirement is the keeping of a record of work experience.

EazySafe, located in the Digital Hub facility in Dublin.

An ‘online’ safety training company, with offices in Ireland, France, and Poland

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day 1:

16th Feb 2011

In at the deep end, after the initial ’50 cent tour’.

I was asked to come up with some sketches, for a new ‘Office Safety’ animation caricature for a companies internal training animated test course.

The remit is to have a friendly office worker to match and interact with the preexisting ‘Sam’ animation.

Day 2:

17th Feb 2011

With half a dozen potential models designed and submitted, four have been okayed and rendered ‘roughly’ in ilistrator and photoshop, for review by the client.

Day 3.

18th Feb 20011

Working at home, after I hand in some paper work to the college, (oh and get back from the ‘Airsoft Soc game’)

Note:

(I like this group, a friendly relaxed atmosphere, you defiantly feel the need to pitch in)

Part 2

Week (2)

Day 4: (Monday)

Started today with developing ‘Photoshop’ renderings of a new ‘office safety model’, which I am calling ‘Kris’, short for ‘Crysis’.

There are 8 different base models for the client (sounds like Pie Marks) to review and decide, hairs, dress styles and so on to be sketched.

I ‘Wonder’ if they will they take my dress designs and market them?

Day 5:

Backgrounds, sketches and Preliminary car park for basic new working safety video, 9 other backgrounds, Kitchens, Factories, Warehouse, Corridor, Deli, Retail Shop.

Day 6:

Carpark finished, starting factory(2). 1 is a pan&track the other has motion componants, and ‘ikbones’.  Fixed the office chairs, now have somewhere to sit!

Day 7:

Fatory finished! both versions, corridor laid out and I have the first kitchen objects done, all saved as griphic items, this seems to work better when working with cs4 to cs5 conversions, fewer skips in timeline.

Day 8:

Working at home, fixed issue with the factory IkBones animation, also the exterior travel shot of buildings, found the stray frame causing the skip and deleated it!, ‘A pain in the …’ , looks good , for now..

Week (3)

Day 9:

Starting Retail shop, most of the other ‘backgrounds’ done to first fix, will be making changes I am sure, if it’s not one thing it’s another with the factory IkBones, but I fixed it for good this time!, fingers crossed.

They accepted the ‘backgrounds’!, I was sure I would be asked to make major changes, but no, they like them!  Ho they do want an additional ‘corridor seq’, a paralax scene, alla ‘schoobi doo’ running down a corridor.

Day 10:

Client likes Kris, but want more clothing options!?, cleaning up the final corridor, so they are waiting for the go ahead for some internal reason, (not in the loop, so do not know).

Day 11:

Client meeting, no decision, loves the new stuff, may have to draw straws.  Scaffolding model and animation, took all day!

Day 12:

Falling seq, added to existing animation, looks good, but took a big chunk of the day..

Day 13:

..Very foggy morning, but did turn into a nice false spring day, great day to take photos of the staff for the website, oh and a group shot for the office wall..

Week (4)

Day 14:

Spent the day with Photoshop retouching images, and adding an errent employee to the group shots.

Day 15:

Air brushing and touch ups, long tedious and subject to the whims of the ‘Recipient’.

Thank god for COFFEE!!…

Day 16:

Printed test sheets, once again, ‘Change this, is that Me?!’, (Photos for the company online profile pages), the usual, plastic surgery on the cheep thanks to Photoshop..

Starting ‘revamp to the ‘Chemical Safety Course’, a balls up due to cs4/cs5 compatibility, not my fault!!!, this time..

Day 17:

Starting to add the revamped backgrounds to existing ‘Fla’ files, ‘I love what I have done with exploding Sam’, Claire loves ‘Chemical burning Sam’, Niamh Likes, ‘Sunburn, the throbbing vain’, and Dave has asked for a few changes!

Day 18:

Finished the ‘Solid, Liquid, Gas states’ fla, the original made no sense in the context, oh and added a little more to ‘Sunburn Sam’, he really gets angry now..

Week (5)

Day 19:

Finished the first set, minor changes, add a line here, loose a color there, add fade..

Second set of fla meeting, next 6 for the revamp chosen.

Day 20:

After reviewing the work I have done, so far, I have been given another dozen or so ‘fla’ to fix and update.

Day 21:

_BUST_

Fire alarm goes off and we are stuck out of the office, so I go to ‘Starbucks’ and work there for the day, don’t worry, thats what the rest of the office did too!

Day 22:

‘Paddy’s day, why should the irish be blamed for ‘him’!, He was Welsh!! ‘

Day 23:

In hospital this morning, I am there the doctor is not!, they have to reschedule, depressed now..

Week (6)

Day 24:

Just what I need, I am the only one in the office, the rest are in Cork or Paris (France) with the parent company.

Four of the nine big animations done!

Day 25:

St Paddy day I could kill you 48hrs of work dropped on my desk and only an afternoon to do it in!…..PC acting up…

Day 26:

Killed myself but did the ‘Systems Food Safty fla.’ The deliveries Safty is a bit of a lost issue.  It is badly in need of something, but what?

That issue with the cashe Memory is dragging out the changes…

Day 27:

Meeting with supervisor, could you make this do that instead of what we agreed on? I know it sounds as if I am being dumped on from a great height, it is just that after veiwing some fla, they need a little tweeking!  Nothing ever looks as good as in your own mind..

Day 28:

Finally got back to ‘Roland the Rat’, have the timing sorted, what a mess to start with, if I had known I would have junked the whole thing and started from scratch!

Building the props today, new milk, new boxes, new tins, maybe a can opener?

Week (7)

Day 29:

Have completed two versions of deliveries, one with the packages going out, another with them coming in, I know, why not just run the first one backwards, I wish I had thought of that before I added reactions and frost escaping when the open doors of the van!

Day 30:

Finally tracked down the Irish food standards color coding for storage, and it is a guideline not a hard and fast rule, which is why there are so many different lists available.

The original was for the french market, and it was wrong as well!  The images are ‘bit-maped’, but not crappy looking, so I will use them , for the most.

‘Salt and Soap’ needs changing a quick fix that will take all day!.

Day 31:

They did not like the first revamp of ‘Food Color’!, so I am junking everything but two images, the rest will be little animations, within the fla itself, oh and and another set of changes to ‘Salt and Soap’ Loose the brand name, and add more bubbles!!!!!

Day 32:

A day of paperwork today have a lot to catch up on, oh and the next set of fla for revamp are being selected today,’Bomb disposal !?! ‘.

Again The ‘Client’ has ‘failed’ to make a decision on which ‘Kris’ to use, that is two weeks late and the deadline is fast approaching, if I go and animate one I know they will choose one of the others just to ‘piss me off !!’

Action stations!!, all crew to Action stations!!

The New BIG Client has dropped a new internal training course in to the pot  ’night staff safety and security’, and they need a proposal, with  three major animations for the board meeting at 2:30pm.  tomorrow! CRAP!!!!

Day 33:

It killed me, I had to work into the wee hours to do it but I handed over the flas done and dusted, now half my brain is shut done from it and ‘Hugh’ is on his way in, coffee I need coffee!!!

Week (8)

Day 34:

Skipped going in Friday, partially from exhaustion, partially it’s ‘fools’ day and I was ‘warned’ that the pranks verge into the insane for the ‘New guys’, best to avoid!

Was told this morning the Fla’s were well received, so feeling quite good about that, I did muck up on a set of headlights but it was caught and added by Niamh, I did them just covered over that layer later, sleep  depravation.. thats what I am claiming, not my own stupidity…

‘Billed the Client’

Day 35:

Got back to building Kris’s body, still no word on the final touches, still I can create a walk cycle of the animation.

Day 36:

The body is right, a front and side view completed, just the 3/4 view, make the walk cycle more lady like, mouth shapes and a range of expressions and hopefully ‘They’ will have decided on the clothes and hair by then.

Day 37:

Copy and paste from yesterday, the walk cycle has to include different speeds and objects or hand positions to enable carrying things…

Day 38:

Stop the presses they have made their decision, and I do not have to throw out half the work I have done so far!!!

They have chosen version ‘D’, so from now on She is Kris ‘D’ (Crisdy) short for ‘Crisis actions model D’, I know a mouth full, so ‘Kris’ does fine..

Week (9)

‘Billed The’Client”

Day 39:

An Hour late and everyone is off to a meeting, I have the 3/4 to finish so I have enough work until they are back..

Day 40:

Animating Kris in a scene today, Welcome to the ‘company’, ‘There are a few things you need to Know!’, it is the first whole scene for the new training course. All the work to date were general motions which get strung together into separate actions later.

Day 41:

Two Fla down just swapping Kris for Sam

Day 42:

Copy and paste for the next four days, there are a lot of Sam Fla’s that we can recycle, thank god I took the time to build a good figure to scale with the rest..

Day 43:

Walking in to shop revisited, she is skating over the floor?, oh a frame rate issue!

Week (10)

Half way through the list and they are asking for time spent working on this stuff, now where the hell will I get that from?

It sure would of helped if I had kept some kind of log!!

Day 44:

Under the Knife this afternoon, good I am starving. Only time for clean up this morning

Day 45:

Spent the day recuperating, Why does hospital food alway taste like it has been pre digested?

Day 46:

Out again and my futures so bright I got to wear shades!, well at least until the my doctor says my eyes are okay!

Day 47:

More cut and pasting of kris into Sam. Oh and they are giving some of my backgrounds to this other guy, so there are three major course fla that I will have to wait to do!

Day 48:

Easter

Week (11)

Day 49:

Easter

Day 50:

Spending my time tiding up the fla, oh and redoing another set of walk cycles for Kris, the 25 frame rate of her walk messes with the 12 frame setting of the flash 8 player, so I have to redo the walk again!…….

Day 51:

Copy and paste again. though this time it is a flash 7 player the client has!!:), why not just upgrade???

Day 52:

Late in today had to hand in ‘college project’, now perhaps I can get to bed at a reasonable hour!!!

Day 53:

Sick as a dog, You’ll be happy to know I have lost my voice!, still work is getting done

Week (12)

Day 54:

Yet another Bank Holiday, and I did not know about it!  Yep, I showed up for work and no one was here!… I wish you guys would tell me this stuff!!

Day 55:

Work all done early, more switching Kris for Sam, and quite a bit of xml programing, god I hate xml,  am not a web designer!! no matter what the ‘credentials’ say

Day 56:

‘Busy’ work for the next three days, little things the client may wants, the usual ‘wogs & weenies’ stuff, and a translation for those of you not born before the turn of the century ‘patches & quick fixes’.

Day 57:

Cut and paste previous day

Day 58:

Cut and paste previous day

Week (13)

Day 59:

Cut and paste, but I am skipping out on the last day, it is friday the 13th after all no way am I tempting fate.

I have permission.  In any case everything that has been scheduled for me to do has been done, and more.  I think they had to scramble once or twice to find stuff for me to do!

So I have been sitting here twiddling my thumbs for the las two days!

Please do not think I am leaving them high and dry, ‘So long, fare well, ad-veder-zane, goodbye’, no I have promised to poke my ‘head’ in after the exam and help if it is needed for an additional week.

‘Ain’t I a nice guy’, answers on a post card please….

Day 60:

Free at last!! Now I just have to stay out of texas motels and that street, outside of the State Book Depositories!

Not that I think any one is out to get me I just have the feeling there is a big bulls-eye is pasted on my back!

 

The clients name has been removed to protect the ‘Guilty’!

Will that do Niamh?