There’s something poetic about the final sprint. After months of Scrum logs, client meetings, debugging, rendering, building and rebuilding Peanut over and over, surviving Unreal Engine crashes and being locked out of diversion control….. Sigh….. This sprint felt like finally seeing the finish line after a marathon that lasted for an entire semester. Sprint Goal This final sprint was all about bringing months of work together into a finished, presentation-ready project. Fin

Sprint Goal This sprint was all about polishing. Lots of it! After an intense previous sprint, the goal was to refine what we already built and push the project closer to a final, cohesive state. This included improving textures, enhancing environmental details, and refining animation elements like brush movement and falling leaves. Focused Work and Team Support To stay efficient, I focused on Shots 0010–0030, allowing me to compartmentalize my work and maintain a higher leve

The goal of this sprint was to refine the animatic, reduce some of the workflow bottlenecks, and move the project closer to final production. A big focus for us was getting clearer on the “big idea” of the project while also improving how we divide tasks and work together as a team. Marathon This sprint felt more like a marathon. In my quest to beat deadlines and check boxes, I contributed as much as I can across several areas to keep the production moving forward. I spent a

“We can rebuild her. We have the technology!” Peanut 2.0 comes to life. As we learn from our past mistakes, we become better, smarter, and scrummier! Sprint Goal The goal of this sprint was to move deeper into production by strengthening our pipeline, improving the accuracy of our artifact (Peanut), and advancing environment and simulation work to support the narrative. Peanut 2.0 This sprint focused on improving my initial reconstruction of Peanut. After inspecting the first

Meet Peanut - She may be small but her expectations for accuracy are not. This two week sprint was all about research and reconstruction. The goal was to advance the pipeline from experimentation into a structured production. We presented our concept ideas to the museum curators and completed a high-quality mesh reconstruction of the artifact we have chosen and named, Peanut, a Meiji-era ceramic dog.

Last week’s class was all about the introduction of scrum and weighing its pros and cons. This week’s focus is all about using scrum and learning a new type of workflow, new tools and how our team functions within this “new” structure or as I’d like to call it… scrumture. Our sprint this week launched us into the unknown. Similar to when the Saturn V rocket used to carry American astronauts to the moon and back. I somehow felt like I am on a journey towards something unfa

Scrum Report Incoming... A Grad Student reflective takeaway after Week 1 of Scrumming.