Final - Complete + Other Projects: Friday/Sunday

On Friday May 2nd, I came into the lab to re-render scenes for my Final that needed to be fixed. After those were rendered, I had short time left so I rendered an earlier project.

Today, I finished the editing for my Final and exported the movie file. My Final is completed. After the export, I finished up the Wordplay project and that has also been exported into a movie file. All that is left is the first Fly Thru project, which I will let render overnight due to it's large file size. Once that is complete, all my projects for this class will be completed.

Buffering - Senior Animation Show Reception Thoughts: Wednesday, April 30th 5:00PM

I visited tonight's reception for the Senior Animation show Buffering, and very much enjoyed the animations that were shown, along with the concept art. I appreciate Merryweather's piece Murder of Crows for the choice of medium - though cel animation is slowly becoming that of a dying breed, she chose not to let go of an important medium in animation's history and used it in a piece that took place in older times. Kristie Guerette's piece also stood out to me with it's fluid animation and cute art style and story. Overall, everyone's pieces were special in their own unique way and it was an enjoyable event.

Final - Editing and More: Wednesday, April 30th, 8:30AM - 10:45 AM

I have begun editing the scenes in Adobe Premiere. During my editing, however, I noticed some inconsistencies and some scenes ended too abruptly. So I wasn't finished with C4D just yet! 

I added another 2D animation so that two scenes would look more smoothly.

I will have to re-render scenes 3, 4 and 6, place them back into Premiere and my Final will be complete.

Final - Deadlines: Wednesday, April 30th

If my Final was due at the end of class today, I would most likely have my project completed. All the scenes are fully rendered and I don't plan to use a lot of audio files like my Factory project, so editing should take an hour at best and I can have my Final exported by the end of class.

Final - Rendering: Tuesday, April 29th, 7:30PM - 11:00PM

I completed all the scenes for my Final and have completely rendered them. There were a few bugs working with the 2D animations, but they were minor and I was able to work around them. I hope the camera angles I chose are interesting for viewing.

The scenes are ready to be edited into Adobe Premiere with sound when I come into class tomorrow.

Now I will have to come back another night so that I may render two other projects….

Final - Scenes: Monday, April 28th, 8:30AM - 10:40AM

 All the 2D animation and 3D modeling is complete, and now I have begun working on the separate scenes to render. I may have to tweak the waving animation (seen above) because it feels short. 

In the meantime, two scenes have been finished so far and I have about four left before I begin rendering.

Final - Last 3D Modeling + Scene Plans: Wednesday, April 23rd, 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM

The 3D portion of my Final is complete. I tweaked the area and some textures so that the main focus is visible. I have one more very quick 2D animation to make before I begin the Camera portion of the project. 

For the Camera portion, I will have to render multiple scenes. The scenes are as follows:

Scene 1 - Reach the bed, see doodle man jump from one paper to another

Scene 2 - Jump to next paper, look around

Scene 3 - Turn around, jump to last paper

Scene 4 - Wave to viewers

I'm already familiar with splitting the projects into scenes from working on my Factory project, so that process won't be too much of a hassle. I only hope the 2D animations hold up well throughout rendering.