The Producer’s Report #99 - Scrub My Eyes

I have seen the blood of the ages smeared accross the tarmac of the Port of Seattle (my soul). Will I recover from this? No. I don't think so. Will I have taquitos for lunch? Do you sense the ghost of Ian Hubert illuminating my prose? No. We saw some very cool things this week. Done.

Here are the stats:
Status of Visual Effects (VFX) Shots:
Number remaining: 23 (LESS THAN 25 Woot!)
Number in progress: 11
Number completed: 596
Percentage remaining: 3.7% (LESSS THAN 5% Woot!)
Total VFX: 650 (a bunch were completed before we started tracking them)

Doom: 4%, "We have to keep a baseline to deviate from." (calculated by Ian)

Projected date for completion of all VFX:
10 February 2010 (based on projected time estimates of all tasks)
17 February 2010 (based on spreadsheet items completed per week)

This week’s recommendations:
Ian: "A bag of fun."
Nate: "Nine" because it's a bag of fun.
Phil: "A bag of kittens."

Cheers,

Phil McCoy, Executive Producer
on behalf of Nathan McCoy (left), also Executive Producer and Phil McCoy (right)

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Comment by Phil McCoy on January 19, 2010 at 4:26pm: Thank you both!

Comment by Mathias Panzenböck on January 19, 2010 at 1:25pm

Your progress is a nice linear function. With this you should be able to plan further project pretty well, accurately predict the time they will take and thus maybe the money they will cost (at least concerning the SFX). Not even changing team members seem to have much influence on the function. However the projected date of completion is also a kinda linear graph. This is bad, because it shows you misjudge the effort continuously. Just by extrapolating the graph by holding a ruler to the screen I'd say you'll be at 0 SFX remaining on the 15th of February at earliest or 1st of March at latest (unless the final sprint increases commitment significantly). Lets see what the real end date will be.

Oh and you could also try to extrapolate the end date using the projected end date function. As I said it seems also to be kinda linear but its a lot more wobbly than the other one (almost like f(x)=a*x + b*sin(x)). Here you have to draw the extrapolated line and seek the point where x = y. Obviously if your function is steeper than 45° this point does not exist, because you start with f(0) > 0 (y > 0 when x = 0).

It is surely interesting to look at this graphs. Wish you'd tracked it from the very start.

However, can't wait to see the finished movie. Keep up the good work!

Comment by Dolf J. Veenvliet on January 17, 2010 at 2:29pm: Ooh congrats.... getting so close! Good stuff, just keep it up, nearly there, end in sight!