Today, we’ve started putting the finished Animation for the Logo Assignment into Adobe After Effects 2020. So far, we’ve been able to get the animation itself completely done, and now we’ve put it into After Effects do add the sounds and visual touch-ups. While the sounds have not been started, We’ve gotten the timing complete, now we need the sounds and we’ll be done.

Here’s the storyboard we have for the Plugged In Logo Assignment that we are doing in Maya. We followed the storyboard very closely, and at the end of the animation, It looked just like how we originally had it on the storyboard. I can’t really say that much changed since nothing did, including the colors.

Today, we finished our Plugged In Logo assignment in Maya 2020. After Seth finished up animating the logo, it was my job to begin adding the sounds. Finding the right audio was difficult, as well as editing some of it, but eventually it all came out nicely in the end. I feel like the hardest part were the Wires, since them coming out then swirling around doesn’t have a dignified sound attached to them, nor was it easy to find what I was looking for it online, so I went with what I could and edited it to the best of my ability.

This is my final animation for the Maya Syrup Bifrost tutorial. This turned out much better than excepted, with the syrup looking super realistic! With the lighting and skybox I put in there, if I were to make an actual proper food model in the middle, I could probably convince someone that it’s real!

Today, I’ve almost finished my Bifrost Syrup tutorial in Maya. Right now, I have the whole thing ready, and it is currently getting ported to an Alembic. After this, I should be able to apply a material to it and render the scene. I’m really happy with how this has turned out. While the syrup is quite a bit too much, it still looks fine for what it’s worth.

Today I was able to continue working on the second Bifrost Tutorial. So far, I have the syrup being applied into a cache, and hopefully after this finishes I can apply the rest of the tutorial’s assets. The process getting here hasn’t been too hard, however I feel like I may have accidentally added a bit too much syrup.

Today, I started working on our second Bifrost Fluid tutorial in Maya. So far, I have the scene made for it. I was feeling a little bit more artistic that day, so I wanted to make it a little bit more detailed than just a sphere floating in a void. I have the proper objects prepared for the scene, as well as the liquid above the object ready to be edited and finished.

Today, I finished one of our Bifrost tutorials in Maya. In this, We created a wheel that spins while a liquid falls on top of it. This liquid acts very realistically, and moves in the same direction as the wheel when it collides. This wasn’t that hard to do, really straightforward and simple actually, and so far looks super cool!

Over the past few days, there has been more progress on our Logo Project in Maya. So far, we have two prototypes, a Neon Sign, and the Animated Logo. This is the Logo, Seth has been able to model it, and now I’m hypershading it. To my knowledge, there hasn’t been any issues, other than us having to juggle 3 different assignments at once right now, but no issues have cropped up relating to the assignment itself.

I have begun to try and render out the final scene for my SkillsUSA Project in Maya. I have been able to fully add my changes that I’ve wanted, although I’m still trying to fiddle around with a few more things like the size of the stem bumps and stuff around that sort. From what has been rendered so far, it looks great! The only notable issue I’m having is the discolor of the grass in the very front and just the overall time it is taking to render the scene, both both are something I can’t do much about, so its going almost perfectly besides that.