spent most of class ironing out issues within sound booth, managed to get sound working and started deciding on the scale and notes. for the sake of time im going with a simplified climb in scale. 

while trying to fix volume issues i crashed audition.  i plan to record sound Thursday and Friday and finish editing by sunday possibly sans title. 

today worked on timing and editing the fx optical properties, slower progress then ide like i may need to re simplify to ensure t gets done.

i also noticed the video did not go up so ill try again

my goal is to have a final render by next class, as to weather this will  i know not

over weekend: finished most animation, and rendered preliminary render, something about the movement seems off? maybe too fast?  the lights glow spread has been shown to be too large and the camera is out of position in render.

in class: edit light atributes with mov as reference.

began animating play scene, anticipate render being done this weekend and beginning on sound and editing.

made main search sequence  though timing of fx atributes need to be double check since they are no visible without render. (their key frames are also no where to be found for some reason)

narratve option 2:

light searches for friend (increase glow intensity and star count then radial rotation and add medley as call)  no answer light tries again no answer, it moves around and tries from a different spot at first no answer then after delay very very faint answer, light gets excited and moves around tires call again, faint answer light glows more and gets louder answering call gets louder after x maybe two or three more attempts? (too many?) the other light comes into the scene and the other light rejoyces

revised narrative option:

light searches for friend vibrates to spawn new friend, new friend is sleepy tires to sleepy (change to sleepy color) other light having brightened up wanting to play nudges sleepy one, dose this a few time sleepy one becomes grumpy and chases playful one while its color changes form sleepy to red then red to playful(increase in sleepy tone to chipper?)

due to issue with light intensity controls may need to rely on glow spread.

3 hours spent revising starting scene again changed timing and deleted most key frames, encountered lighting issue were intensity resets every time i render.
falling behind schedule, thinking of cutting narrative short in order to privatize emotion displayed movement. timing is proving much harder then i thought to make the light a believable entity with emotions and thoughts.

rendered test shows streaks do move however movement of animation is too fast ill have to go in and edit the speed and timing more and then keep animating.

description:

give light personality and narrative through movement and light properties combined with sound on black back drop.

aim for cheery playful narrative

give personality to light, start playful and go form there
possibly have them multiply till the screen is blinded sort of like a merciless playfulness scenario.

no story board images available

plan:

finalize main concept for wed 15th

by render (post wed 22nd) have all light animated

animate heavily on the 20th and through out the weekend

collect sounds for/on the 27th

edit and attach sounds for  end of 29th - 4th

today got self illumination to work and ironed out ideas more.

fixed issue in lower level file, encountered new issue with same scene, considering downsizing the scene to persevere the computer's integrity.(last night forgot to post it)

further fixed lower level scene then deleted and re did, worked on composition of lower level scene and lighting. (today)

for wed i plan i finishing the robot dump room and finish the final render on the counter.

today i began work on dump room and encounter/fixed multiple errors with lighting.

here the test render of 5 seconds with the lighting, this is not the final angle for the camera.

made lighting animation and light animation for lighting lost all two hours of work to ender debacle. with time left made the counter and the number change animation in a separate scene.

Between now and monday i will to various small  test renders on how long things like lighting take and look but most time will be spent with fabrication.

three hours spent arguing with lighting active rigid bodies trying to get them to move in animation, figured out only the passive (receiving body) can be animated so far. managed to fix lighting thickness after half hour of searching. managed to animate lighting balls. began fabricating counter. spent four hours compensating for lack of glow reflection eventually fabricated solution if a little rough.

finished little character, worked on camera angel and dealt with reflections a lighting a bit.

once i finish the lighting situation of after a day of working on it has passed ill start making the lightning balls and animating them.

Made basic outline of scene and rough of companion, researched smoke methods that would be easier on the mac.

was shown new browser based 3d modeling / game making software.  https://playcanvas.com/

managed to get basics of temperature based mist down, still need to work on how to shape it and control is motion while animating.

if the render proves to be an issue i may try to combine these new fluid and temperature methods with the standard smoke emitter and see if that cuts down on time any.

i also need to iron out the color so the mist has a strange lifelike quality fitting for the companion and to help set the mood.

need to finish the mist and start on my companion.

finished up story borad decided most important parts to worry about

will emial planning sheet

plusfab

plus fabrications visit was pretty interesting i found the information on shared shop space and rentable studios particularly interesting and have begun factoring it into my plan for post graduation life.

questions for plus fabrication

do you guys actively participate in the design phase or simply follow and or advise?

have you ever worked on fine art pieces, sculptures and the like?

last night i managed to get father in the basic animation am about half way or more through he story but it still need a lot of tweaking. a few animation issues shave come up most vexing of which is that a word will revert back to its bent state for no reason after its animation. other then this there has been a few issues with speed though this may simply be timing. my plan is to finish the animation with just ant timing i can and go back in to fine toone.

made flower and finished final concept for animation, started on making and animation words and world.

appelcomand shift 4 = screemshot

no idea how to get it on here though

need to find outliner again and test bending and warping along multiple points as well as do homework

sever polygon issues with geometry moving during rendering but not in workspace.

first half is modeld but not texutred or lit working on second half assests now and tresting camera treacking

worked for a few hours then crashed maya, made a few tests for what the book world would look like, tried to make a broken tower and broke maya in the process.

i managed to get to step 31 and add some stuff of my own, broke the system only once when i was playing with the lights. did some resarchin in to hair on maya and character rigging. the rigging has helped me get some ideas for the fly through cameras motion. maybe make a dragon or  chimera like creature the camera for some interesting effects worked maybe 10- 13 hours give or take a few

reached texturing boxes but cannot open zip file with textures. maybe blyth has an idea?

tutrial 10 dont forget to go bakc and scatter some boxes the piles cool but could be more fun with some boxes fallen off to the floor

tutorial 10 - 11right now

yay its working?