Self Evaluations : Project 2 : Flythru

This project became more difficult than it really needed to be

Self Evaluations : Project 1 : Allegory

The programming was new to me but I believe that I was able to grasp the task required of me for this assignment.
Toying with the lighting, coloring and manipulating objects for a dramatic effect of one scene.

Creating a fly thru for this was realtivily simple once i knew how to animate the camera thanks to the flythru excerise.

4/1/10

11:30-12:00 PM

1. Set up presentation slides (I already had the information in advance)

3/31/10 Murder!!!

Finished the animation btw 2-5pm the sounds, editing. etc.

Stupid Me (I want tto snap my fingers and have it all be magically done...or at least most of it)

3/29

1. 7:13-8:20 PM - I was frustrated with the simple problems that I was having and rendered what I could properly, I refused to go to sleep until the render was complete (which ended up making me stay up all night organizing my thoughts... Unfortunately I have to work to tonight but I'm going to to have to ask to get off early so that I can finish editing.)

3/30

Time: ??? - 

I fixed the group animation by doing the following:

1. Created a new file, deleted everything with the exception of the building with the machines
2. Fixed the arrangement of the doll group in its own file and merged into new file
3. Shrunk doll group and animated the attributes
4. Set up render (I accidentally had it render to .tiff files which I didn't realize until after I had rendered two of them and had to set it up again as a quicktime movie)
5. At this moment in time a file is being rendered on my computer at home (My computer has been going at it for days, days that I should have posted here but in my frustration I only posted some of it.)

So right now my only problem is rendering files, its not that they aren't working its that I keep setting them up wrong and have to do them over and over again which causes a chain reaction. My computer is constantly running as it renders and I have other things that I need to do on it at the same time but opening other programs besides cinema 4d slows down the render even more....etc....etc.....etc........

I'm going to try to squeeze in time to throw together an presention for the research project that I have gathered on my computer but I dodn't know if I'll be able to get it done tonight and be able to sleep.

I'm going to Anime Boston this weekend and so I'm stressing myelf out now so that I have everything complete so I can have a stress free weekend with my friends that I've been planning for months.

---Note to self:

Things to do(everything):

• email friend and high scholl multimedia teacher
• call my family to update them on what's going on
• finish props
• finish costume for bro
• write 4 page essay for eng comp II
• come up with subject and thesis statement for Art history II paper & find source books
• Complete all 2d hw (for there are no known due dates)
• SLEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sleep deprevation is starting to catch up to me and I need to be up bright and early for classes to morrow since I'm going to miss class(es) on monday due to weekendc plans...)

3/29 Problems solutions and plans

2:30 am

1. PROBLEM: I had grouped an object then ungrouped it later in the animation. I didn't realize that it would affect the animation track and that contributes to my earlier problem of scenes rendering but nothing happening in the projected window.
2. SOLUTION: I'm going to merge the Kimmi doll group file again and multiply it so that for each scene up to the point I divided the group in the later animation I can simply move the group rather than having to go back and animate each individual one.
3. EFFECT(S): I will (need Tuesday to) complete it btw.  9:15AM-3:30PM (because I have to go to work).
4. PLAN(S): Mon- Complete new animations pieces for designated scenes in beginning of Factory shots with group, Render after completing each corrected scene; Tues- Edit renders in iMovie and add sound

Rendering Files 3/25-3/29

I started rendering one scene at a time without changing the frames so only the first render has everything that it needs to. This I only realized this sunday afternoon when I imported the MOVs into imovie to edit. I should have checked yesterday afternoon, that's a mistake on my part; So I reset the frames necessary and started to render scenes again.


The exterior camera that zooms into the city and focuses on the factory building has some bugs that I failed to mention in my blog on 3/25. I briefly looked into the problem and decided to drop it and render the other scenes which were more important then go back to tackle the camera/spline path issue before Tuesday (3/30, since it was the intended deadline).

Looks like I'll be working on it Monday after all my classes and unfortunately (but quite possibly) on Tuesday. As long as I can get the 6 renders done by 8 am Tuesday morning then I'll be in excellent shape to finish before 1:30 pm.

For now I'll render 1 scene at a time and make sure to prep the next render.