Today, we completed even more when it comes to Texturing and Hypershading. Since Madison was able to finish rigging the man, Jacob was able to start Hypershading him. While Jacob was Hypershading and finishing the man, I was Hypershading and texturing most of the objects for the office. Things are currently going good, and we are almost ready to start animating.

Today we did more with the Rigging and Hypershading of the assignment. What Jacob and I did, is that we did more Hypershading and object adding to the project. Madison was barely able to finish rigging the man, so now we are all set for animating. Madison ran into a few problems, but she was able to fix them pretty quickly. Me and Jacob luckily didn’t run into any problems, so we are doing good. I’m enjoying this assignment, but it gets a little bit stressful after awhile, but other or less, we are doing fine.

Today, we worked more on the different objects for the office, and started on the rigging. Jacob was able to finish working on the man, so Madison started working on the rigging for the man. While Madison is working on the rigging for the man, Jacob and I are working on the Hypershading and modelling of more objects. So far, I haven’t encountered any issues, and I don’t think Jacob and Madison have had issues either, so we are going pretty good so far!

Today, I was able to model both the computer and the money, as well as discuss and help with other things on the assignment. With the money, I didn’t have any problems with it. The computer, while a bit more complex, was also pretty easy. The Group and I have decided how the texturing will pan out, as we will apply all the objects to the final assignment, then texture them there. Today was pretty successful with getting more done for the final animation and no issues occurring along the way.

Today, we worked more on our Final Exam. Madison worked on modeling the Office, while Jacob started working on the Man. I started to work on making different objects that will be in the office. Today, I got two of these objects done, the Clock, and the Chair. I was able to get both of them done with barely any problems. The only problems I ran into were some problems I had to think outside the box to complete, but other or less, no major issues.

Today, we made and presented our Storyboard for out final exam animation, Time is Money. We wrote 20 panels for out Storyboard, showing how the whole animation will play out. Each panel consisted of different parts for our animation that plays out. After we wrote the visuals for the panels, as well as their information, we presented it to he class, and started to work on our assignment.

We have also made the assets list for all we are going to try and make for this assignment. We have most of the objects going to be, room making to Madison, making the main guy to Jacob, then scattering other stuff between us like sounds and animation.

In the little time we had with Storyboarding, we learned a lot about it. We were given some videos to look over and analyze to figure out how exactly storyboards work, are made, and why we use them. We learned about how Disney uses them too! Disney tends to use these all the time, and we got many examples of famous Disney movies and how they presented their storyboards, usually by quite literally sticking them to the wall. The thing a don’t like about storyboards is just my skill with them, as I don’t know how to draw well

Today, we started working on the Soft Body animations. I haven’t gotten too much done on it, but I at least have a start. So far, things are looking different from the videos. The videos use a different version of Maya that is much older than the one we have, so trying to find stuff is kind of hard. Other than things visually looking different, everything is still functioning the same, so I’m able to still get the job done.

Today, I worked on the Cloth Assignment in Maya. This was a fun little assignment, which taught me how to use nCloth in Maya. I was able to complete this assignment In one day, as it wasn’t very long or hard. My favorite part of this assignment was just how real the cloth piece acted. The way it just smoothly waved made it feel like I could just reach in and touch it. Overall, this was definitely one of the most satisfying assignments to do.