Day 20_Home_Tuesday (Nov 8th, 2011)

Wednesday Nov 9th, 2011
10:26PM - 1:09AM

1. Opened file 
2. Continued altering the landscape with the magnet tool
3. Glanced at the last blog post
4. What I need to to is: 
1. Fix the plane (which I'm doing right now),
2. Simulate/setup the particle emitter 
3. Animate the pick up of snowball
4. Animate the camera zoom out
5. I'm having loading issues still which making things take longer to change, it makes me curious as to how it's going to react when I go the render
6. Okay now its really not responding as I try to use the magnet tool now that I augmented the radius size. I'm going to have to forget about changing the landscape for now and focus on the other things that I need to do
7. Alright this is getting really annoying I went back to the file from this window and the magnet tool works again!! The absurdity of this is driving me up a wall
8. Changed the arrangement with the landscape and the globe
9. Repositioned the tree and the snowman
10. Completed the animated segment for the roll
11. Sized and placed the stick arms
12. I keyframed the arms and then they disappeared
13. I looked around for them found them then moved them back into the globe
14. I've found a pattern that I better not be jinxing in saying it but it seems that whenever I have a problem the moment that I blog about it the problem solves itself (for the most part)
15. Put the stick arms back in place
16. Set the keyframes for them
17. Rotated the body and the stick arms 90 degrees towards the camera from 300 - 390 frames
18. Saved 
19. Renamed file to CardAnimation2.c4d
20. Added joints to the stick arms
21. Added IK chains
22. Tested the joints and they work
23. Put in a camera for the next shot
24. Went to animate the shot and the body disappeared when I key framed it
25. I rendered the image and found that the entire body has moved to the top of the globe
26. I went through and played the key frames, although I had key framed them so that they would stay in position they moved!!!!!!
27. I do have a previously saved version of this but I getting really pissed off and tempted beyond belief to leave it until tomorrow which would be detrimental to me
28. I hit the undo function numerous times until I got the snowman's body back where it's suppose to be
29. I'm done with this. I got the stuff back that I was missing but they are not in the right orientation and toying the the redo and undo functions aren't getting the work that I had back. The other file that I have is from before I put joints in the arms and did things.
30. No animation has been completed tonight, it was just a giant waste of my time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!