Day 17_Class_Thursday (Oct 27th, 2011)

12:30 - 3:05 PM

1. Added a cylinder on the bottom of the cones that I stacked
2. Moved the bottom ring on all the cones
3. They were apparently not connected to their caps so I had the bridge them individually
4. The bottom of the top cone still wouldn't connect properly when I looked at it after applying hypernurbs to it but when deselected it looked fine so I'm going to leave it as is
5. Added basic coloring to the shapes
6. Tree is done
7. Opened new file
8. Created sphere
9. Two cylinders
10. Did a sweep with two circles
11. Round Ornament
12. Saved
13. Grouped
14. Drew a spline
15. Created a sweep with a circle
16. Candy Cane Ornament
17. Saved
18. New File
19. Took two star splines and dropped them into the sweep nurbs
1. It was a test but I like the results
2. I'm going to change it to the star of David for Hanukkah
20. Created a star of David in the same way as aforementioned
21. Experimenting in making snowflakes
22. Items completed
1. Landscape
2. Two Ornaments
3. Tree
4. Ornamental Star

Plans for Outside of Class:

1. Finish primitives
2. Put together set

Day 16_Home_Tuesday (Oct 25th, 2011)

Thursday 10/27/2011

11:30 - 12:30 PM

1. Tried working with lathes to create the landscape but it wasn't working out saved the file and opened up a new one
2. Put in a plane and used the magnet tool
1. I got the soft lumpy landscape I was looking for
3. Saved
4. Opened up a new file 
5. Set up cones individually on top of one another cutting their radius' by 25 as I stacked the cones up

Day 16_Home_Tuesday (Oct 25th, 2011)

Plan for Class:

1. Complete the primitives for the greeting card
1. Landscape
2. Sticks
3. Snowman
4. SnowGlobe 
5. Snowflakes
6. Tree
7. Ornaments
8. String Lights
9. Scarf
10. Art Supplies
2. Add basic color materials

Schedule for the Rest of the Semester:

1. Wk of: 10/25-10/27 : Primitives (Greeting Card)
2. Wk of: 11/1-11/3 : Animation (Greeting Card)
3. Wk of: 11/8-11/10 : Finalize (Greeting Card)
4. Wk of: 11/15-11/17 : Model 1 and Animate
5. Wk of: 11/22-11/24 : Model 2 and Animate
6. Wk of: 11/29-12/1 : Model 3 and Animate
7. Wk of: 12/6-12/8 : Model 4 and Animate
8. (Last Day of Class) Wk of: 12/13: Compile the 4 Model Walk Cycles and Correct any problems with the ones them as well as the old models

Day 16_Class_Tuesday (Oct 25th, 2011)

12:30 - 3:00PM

1. Taking scanned images into photoshop and dividing them
1. They are for Drawing II to create an animation
2. I really don't think that I'm going to be able to finish so I'll use my back up
1. The post-its aligned on paper
1. Hang it
2. Plan for the rest of the year
1. Holiday card
2. A Character Model a Week w/Walk Cycle
1. Ideas for models
1. Characters from Character Creation
1. Abel
2. Madeline
3. Jesna
4. Sispa
5. Character Corpse
6. Plant-human
7. Robot
3. Go back and correct previous character models
1. Kit
2. Yokai
3. Morph/Relationship
4. Etc.

Day 15_Home_Tuesday (Oct 20th, 2011)

10/24/2011 Tuesday

1. Got sound files and combine them with video files
2. Sped up the videos without disturbing the pace
3. Exported them DNAComplete.mov & ElectrophoresisComplete.mov
4. Brought them over to Alex
5. He tried to put them in but they need to be converted to Swf files
6. I looked into Final Cut and into Compressor and neither of them contain ways of converting them into a swf file
7. I looked online and found programs that I could download in order to do it
8. I downloaded one but I need the administrator's permission to add it so that's a no go
9. Then I tried opening Flash to convert it that way but flash won't open
10. So I'm going to try changing the .mov to .swf and make sure to have backup files in case they don't end up working
11. and if those don't work I'm going to restart the computer and try to open flash again

Day 15_Class_Tuesday (Oct 20th, 2011)

**Note: I might try to leave class early so that I can work on some of my Character Creation hw before I have to go to my Drawing II class at 3:30

12:50 -3:10 PM

1. Looked in blog
2. Blogged
3. Showed Blyth my animations
1. It was suggested that I get closer when it zooms in on the center to make it more interesting
4. Opened c4d file for the Electrophoresis animation pan around
5. Took cords and did current state to object and saved it to today's folder
6. Figured out the new colors with Georgia
7. Changed them
8. Set the Electrophoresis to render
9. While its rendering went into the server and deleted the files from before
10. Once render was complete I posted it on the server and informed group members
11. Set up the DNA to render
12. Render finished
13. Posted to the server and informed group members
14. They opened the files and found that they are acting glitchy so I'm going back and lower the resolution from 300 back to 72 for the both of them
15. Made changes and are rendering each one
16. Organized files for other classes and sending class emails

Day 14_Home_Thursday (Oct 18th, 2011)

Plans for Class:

1. Change BG colors for the two animations
2. Render them out
3. Work on Greeting Card

Day 14_Class_Thursday (Oct 18th, 2011)

12:30 - 12:40 PM

1. Set up electrophoresis animation for rendering

12:40 - 1:36 PM

1. Rendering
2. Copying Files to External Drive
3. Making additions to the storyboard for the School Greeting Card
4. Put files into Server DropBox for students

1:36 - 3:05 PM

1. Viewed with groups members
2. Put today's export up
3. Viewed with group members
4. First 3 seconds need to be cut there was a problem with the interpolation
5. Opened up a file in Final Cut
6. Saved as ElectrophoresisVoltageEdit
7. Cut the first 3 seconds off
8. Exported file as Electrophoresis.mov
9. Posted the file onto the server
10. I might be going back to render once a BG color is chosen for the two animations but for right now they are both white
11. Put the Hallucinos file onto the server
12. Setting up primitives for the set
13. Pitched storyboard idea > Liked
14. Next deadline is two WKs from today Nov1st Tuesday
15. Setting up the landscape primitive
1. I wonder if I can make it in Unity and then export it out as a 3d model that can be opened up in c4d or maya heck I might even try setting it up in maya since I have the program and need to learn it anyway

Day 13_Home_Tuesday (Oct 13th, 2011)

Plans for Week of 10/18 - 10/20:

1. Put all animations together
2. Edit
3. Correct Problems
4. Polish/Finalize

Day 13_Class_Tuesday (Oct 13th, 2011)

Although there isn't class today...

12:30 - 3:20PM

1. Watched a couple of videos on electrophoresis for the voltage application
2. I'm going to make a machine based off of an image that I found
3. Image below:

1. Created the voltage machine
2. Created cords
3. Applied textures
4. Merged into the electrophoresis gel file
5. Connected wires to top and bottom
6. Animated a camera
7. Saved blogged

Day 12_Class_Tuesday (Oct 11th, 2011)

12:30 - 12:45PM

1. Checking blog for this week's tasks

12:45 - 2:45 PM

1. Opened file Helix4_10_6.c4d saved as Helix4_10_11.c4d to folder 10_11
2. Looked up to see whether or not you can weight something without connecting them
1. http://www.c4dcafe.com/ipb/topic/41627-character-rigging-question/
2. I was hoping that I wouldn't have to do each one individually but that seems to be the case
3. I tried giving each cylinder a weight which was tedious but now I can't figure out how to get the weighting on them to connect to the weighting on the parent and thus move right along with it without the cylinders disconnecting from the helix strand
4. So I'm going to let go of trying to unwind the helix it's not going anywhere and its frustrating me more than necessary
5. I'm just going to do the fly around of the helix and find out what exactly I'm doing with the electrophoresis gel model I built
6. Set up a target camera 
7. Aligned it on a helix spline that I resized
8. Moved the center anchor point of the helix in order to have the camera focus on the middle rather than either end
9. The animation is set to play from frame 0 to 900 (30 seconds)
10. Frame 0 is 0% and Frame 900 is 100%
11. Set up an export under the file name FlythroughSpline1.mov (640 x 480)
12. Waited for the export
13. Checked it
14. There were no problems with it (for once)
15. Filed it into 10_11 > Helix > MOVs
16. Set up another render
1. The only change is that it is a cell render
2. File name FlythroughSpline2.mov
17. Waited for it to render

Plans for Home/Outside of Class:

1. Try a freehand fly through 
2. Animate electrical part of electrophoresis process (applying voltage)

Plans for Next Class:

1. Try a freehand fly through 
2. Animate electrical part of electrophoresis process (applying voltage)

Day 11_Home_Thursday (Oct 6th, 2011)

Plans for Class:

1. Figure out how to weight separate objects that are parent and child
2. Animate unwinding helix
3. Animate breaking apart of chains (cylinders)

Day 11_Class_Thursday (Oct 6th, 2011)

12:30 - 1:00 PM

1. Updated plans for class on blog
2. Had group meeting about the flow chart
3. Looking up information or animations with DNA strands separating

1:00 - 3:00PM

1. Finally found a video where the helix break down
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdDkiRw1PdU&NR=1
2. Went into file and organized the bars connecting the helix into two groups
1. RedSide
2. BlueSide
3. Double checked
4. Put in joints 
5. Bound them
6. But the cylinders won't move when I apply an I-K chain
7. When I include them in with the joints they still do not respond
8. So I saved a new file Helix5_10_6.c4d
9. Connected the cylinders to their helix (red/blue) and weighted them
10. They react but they do things that are odd
1. The cylinders will squash and stretch making odd shapes 
1. I'm going to have to go back in and change the weighting on them
2. I'm down to two colors rather than the slue of them that I had before. If I want it to work so that the cylinders have their own colors then I'm going to have to find out how to get weighting to work on the children of an object
11. Watched some Maxxon Cinema 4D tips/Methods on Youtube
1. Found out how to do hair!!!
2. Checked out a variety of other tips
3. Subscribed to their channel

Plans for Home/Outside of Class:

1. Figure out how to weight separate objects that are parent and child
2. Animate unwinding helix
3. Animate breaking apart of chains (cylinders)

Next WK (Group Goals):

1. Animating
2. Animatic
3. ActionScript

Day 10_Home_Tuesday (Oct 4th, 2011)

Plan for Class:

1. Start testing the pull apart of the DNA strand
2. Figure out how I'm going to animate the electrophoresis gel

Day 10_Home_Tuesday (Oct 4th, 2011)

Wednesday 10/5

11:00 - 11:30PM

1. Looked at Gabriel Polonsky's website
1. Looked through the artwork
2. Watched most of his animations
1. http://www.gp-studio.com/animation.html

I totally forgot about going to the artist talk at 11:30AM but I was doing homework and running errands so I looked at the aforementioned items on the website.

Day 10_Home_Tuesday (Oct 4th, 2011)

Wednesday 10/5

11:30PM - 12:30AM

1. Looked at blog for links to electrophoresis gel
2. Watched videos for electrophoresis gel
3. Looked into a diagram 
1. http://www.teacherthomas.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/GelElectrophoresis.gif
4. Created 3d model based off of the image

Day 10_Class_Tuesday (Oct 4th, 2011)

12:30 - 1:00PM

1. Explained what I got done before class
2. Updated blog

1:00 - 2:00PM

1. I tried opening up the c4d file that I worked on outside of class (R13 Demo)
2. It apparently cannot back translate so I'm going to have to redo what I did
3. I went through the same process and I keep coming up with a flat object
4. I'll try moving the circle spline
5. Still doesn't work
6. Pulled out a helix spline and a circle spline
7. Dropped sweep nurbs into hierarchy
8. Put in the helix spline followed by the circle spline
9. Stretched the Helix spline out to make it taller/longer
10. Put in cylinders as center pieces
11. Copy pasted and rotated each segment
12. Colored

2:00 - 3:00PM

1. Went back shrunk the cylinder segments
2. Duplicated and placed so that there is a cylinder attached to either helix
3. Coloring them appropriately

Plans for Home/Outside of Class:

1. Complete Models
1. Helix (Done)
2. Gel (Start)
2. Find out a way to make it so files from R13 can back translate (maybe exporting them will work)

Plans for Project:

1. Wk of 10/4-10/6 : Action Script, Animatic & Models
2. Wk of 10/11-10/13 : Plug-in(s), Animations (Complete)
3. Wk of 10/18-10/20 : Compile, Clean up/Edit
4. 10/25 Present Project

Day 9_Home_Thursday (Sept 29, 2011)

Tuesday
11:00 - 12:15PM

1. Worked on helix
1. Set up two hand drawn splines
2. Arranged a circle spline at the end of each and used lathe nurbs
3. They were too thin
4. I went back through and did it again
2. I looked at other DNA Helixes for references

Plan for Class

1. Complete helix
2. Work on electrothesis gel

Day 9_Home_Thursday (Sept 29, 2011)

Sunday
4:30 - 9:00PM

1. Looked up Maxxon website
2. Had internet problems (getting booted off, having no signal etc.)
3. Managed to get to the download page (for R13 demo) and set up download
4. Download took approx. 2 hrs