Building Alliances - The Studio, and legal documents


 Building Alliances - The Studio

The building alliances module is going to be a collaborative project. What this means is that we are going to be put into groups of 4/5, and given different roles to assign amongst ourselves. These include the art director, research lead, 3D lead and 2D lead. Groups with a fifth member could decide what they wanted them to do.
For my group, the members are myself as the director, Lowenna as the research lead, Rosie as the 2D lead, Atticus as the 3D lead and Katie as the all-rounder. We decided early on that our roles are going to be quite loose, so that no one is waiting around to anything and we help each other throughout the creative pipeline.

Jake Brooks - Director
Rosie Hall - 2D Lead
Lowenna Thrower - Research Lead
Atticus Davis - 3D Lead
Katie - All-rounder/flex 
Going forward from this, we are now presented with the three briefs. All three are focused on the environment, and all of them would be interesting to pursue going forward. For this, I am going to create a Gantt chart (TeamGantt 2024), to organise different tasks for everyone (including myself). 

The first thing I put on the Gantt chart was brief thumbnails: this is so we can draw up ideas for each brief individually, and present the ideas we thought of to each other. This is something I plan to do in time for the next session. As the director, I feel it's important we begin getting our ideas down early for the first presentation so we can discuss with more depth, and start on the next stage of design early on.

Whilst I was setting this up my team also created legal documents: The Non-Disclosure Agreement, Contract of Engagement, and the Environmental Impact documents, which we all had to sign. This is so we can emulate how it is to work in the gaming industry.
Screenshots of the NDA:





TeamGantt, Gantt chart [online]. Available at: https://www.teamgantt.com [Accessed 30 September 2024].

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