Week 9: Ghannt chart review

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The Purple line is when I had Alpha presentation.

By looking at the ghannt chart, I haven't completely followed it, I have kept close to when dates should have started and ended, with the exception of the clothes. The reason for this is because I didn't really realise all the steps that had to go into making them complete. I just gave myself for example two days to create the trousers. But I didn't realise this would involve, making a blockout to take into Zbrush, which I would then add in the detail and make look like trousers. After this I then took it back into Maya to then create a low poly version of the high poly, which I then had to bake down. I imagine if I did do this all in one sitting then it could possibly be done within the two days but it would have been much harder.
Also I didn't take into account my work flow. The way I did the chart assumed I would just work on one piece until it was done. But in reality I did everything in parts, so I would create all the blockout's first, then I did all the Zbrush, and then I would take them all back into Maya to create the low polys. So of course doing it this way meant they wouldn't be finished within the two days, BUT! would all come close to completion by the time I was meant to finish overall with the body. I imagine this could have been the case if I didn't have all the trouble with the blazer.

Although I didn't completely stick to the ghannt chart I did refer back to it a number of times and I did keep it updates. and I found this helpful to try and stay on track.
Also when it came to textures, the ghannt chart assumed that these would be final textures, but I did just simple blockout ones for Alpha, so this is another problem I encountered with it.
According to it as well I should be finished by week 10. I am happy I set so two weeks worth of contingency time and didn't plan it so I finished right on week 12 as this may have pushed me back to the last minute. So by giving myself this time to apparently finish for week 10, it how allowed me to have more time to work.

I feel it is important to always create a ghannt chart to ensure you stay on task for projects and that you meet deadlines, but being in our industry it is quite hard too as you are unsure what may happen at any point. Also we are artists! so no plan should keep us tied down to day by day schedule! although it is important to always try to stick to it and make sure deadlines are made! ha.