A Post-mortem Analysis of Production Process: The Bricklayer's Disaster

This thesis is focused on the worthwhile lessons learned while creating a short animated film. The conventional way of teaching related to practice is to have students work on projects and learn from their own experience. This thesis strives to save the reader some of the pain, time, and effort required of this learning style, by presenting the hard learned lessons from this project. An overview of the project is provided, along with a reconstructed time-line. Also, each member of the team recounted their own dilemmas and successes on the project, and proposed potential solutions to problems encountered along the way. The findings are presented in the spirit of a post-mortem analysis, which acts to collect the knowledge obtained by those involved with a project in order to increase productivity for the next time a similar task is attempted. The postmortem approach was found to be effective in identifying, illuminating, and articulating the lessons learned concerning general, practical, team-related and problem solving issues encountered while working on a short animated film.

Author dc:creator

• Bajandas, Nathan Thomas

Contributors dc:contributor

• Parke, Frederic I.

• postmortem
• post-mortem
• post mortem
• visualization
• teaching
• animation
• short film
• animated short
• 3d animation

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-12-10240

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:tdl-ir.tdl.org:1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-12-10240