AN305-lTarabolski: Day 7_Class_Thursday (Sept 22, 2011)

12:35 - 3:00PM

Checked previous blog for reference as to what I'm finishing up today before I put it into the Final Cut project file
Opened both of the c4d files to work on
I looked back into the butterfly file first and found that the motion was pretty much how I wanted it to play in c4d but then I went and checked on the quicktime video and for whatever reason it isn't functioning the same way so I'll bring it into final cut as is to see if that will fix it
Rigged mushroom character with joints
Had to refresh myself on how to skin and weight it through the help menu
Then corrected his weighting

I'm not sure as to why but there was no shading on the character when I went to correct his weighting so it was a little more difficult to weight right

Animated him so his arms are waving up and down
Rendered him out as a quicktime video file name MushroomLoop2.mov
While it was rendering I went into Final Cut to see how my Butterfly file was doing
When I popped it into Final Cut I realized that it had more than one shade of green due to the auto light the comes up in c4d it looks interesting but it's not what is necessary in order to it put in I just want the image itself so I have to go back and re-render it
The mushroom character's BG should work just fine it's a single color of green with no highlights
Though if I remember correctly the sections where it would be best to put them in are being added to by Chris so I'm going to need his files so that I can cut and paste and not overlap anything that he has done. For now I'll put them in since the scenes that he has are going to be under the track that I have work on

Work for the weekend

See if there is a form of masking tool inside of Final Cut that can be used in addition to the Chroma Keyer
Reset render for butterfly
Place animations in overlapping track in Final Cut
Put in text

Plans for Monday Night Meet-Up

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