Today during Animation 2, we continued working on our Sailing the Seas project. So far, I have started drawing concept art for the pirate ship. I have been basing it off of images of the Black Pearl. It has been taking a while to draw, and I feel like drawing this may take a while, …
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Today during Animation 2, we finished animating the Plugged In logo. So far, we have finished animating the logo and should be ready to render it. There has been one main issue so far, but it was resolved relatively quickly. This issue was that the scene seemed to be getting foggy when importing the word …
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Today during Animation 2, we continued working on the Plugged In Logo project. So far, we have almost finished animating the plugs moving along the wires. We have also animated the light of the play button turning on. Now all that we should have left to do is to add and animate the words for …
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Today during Animation 2, I finished following a tutorial to make a syrup liquid. I have not had many issues with working on this, but I did have to worry about managing my time to work on the Plugged In logo as well. Thankfully, this was not difficult to manage, and we are pretty close …
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Today during Animation 2, I continued following along with video tutorials explaining how to use Bifrost in Maya. So far, I am on the last tutorial video in the folder, but I do not know if we will have any more tutorials to follow through with for this subject. I would assume that we would …
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Today during Animation 2, we started learning about using Bifrost to create fluids in Maya. So far, I have gotten through the first video tutorial and am playblasting the result now. I have had an “issue” where any time I make the smallest change to the colliders or fluid properties, it starts automatically caching, which …
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Today during Animation 2, we continued working on the animated logo project. So far, we have been able to fully model everything we will need for this version of the animation. Alongside this, we have added a mesh light to the triangle part of the play button, so it is able to light up when …
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Today during Animation 2, we continued working on making the logo animations. So far, I have been able to make the wire on one side of the button. I ended up forgetting to add edge loops to the cylinders, so I had to go back and add them manually. This was a bit tedious, but …
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Today during Animation 2, we continued working on the logo project. So far, we have finished coloring the storyboards and have started modeling one of the versions of it. Most of the period was spent coloring the storyboards, so there isn’t really much to document about the modeling process. So far, what has been made …
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Today during Animation 2, we started working on a project where, as a group, we have to make an animated logo for an actual customer. So far, we have two ideas and have storyboarded them. We do not have any images to show for it yet, but we will hopefully be making good progress on …
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