Day 29_Class_Tuesday (Dec 13th, 2011)

12:30 - 3:10 PM

1. Exported from Final Cut
2. Making sure that I have all files transferred to my external drive
3. Importing all movs made since freshman year to today into final cut to create a demo reel
4. Looked up internships
5. Researched what exactly is expected in a cover letter

Day 28_Home_Thursday (Dec 8th, 2011)

Tuesday December 13, 2011

12:15 - 12:30PM

1. Updated the blog
2. Checked the render
3. Loaded into Final Cut
4. Finalized with sound

Day 28_Home_Thursday (Dec 8th, 2011)

Monday December 13th, 2011

11:30PM - 2:00AM

1. Set up render
2. Rendering continued passed closing time, it finished over night

Day 28_Class_Thursday (Dec 8th, 2011)

12:30 - 3:25 PM

1. The preview is calculating
2. I think that I might add a top hat and a carrot nose for the snow man
3. As for the tree I was thinking that I should modify the ornaments so that they are just spheres embedded in the tree rather than the odd shaped ornaments that are already there
4. Went home to grab my head phones
5. Flipping through music that I had taken off of freeplaymusic.com
6. None of them seem appropriate for tis animation
7. I'm going to see if I can find any others
8. Found one that I really like that should fit called "La La Lu"
9. Edited the tree's ornaments making them into spheres
10. Created a material for the ornaments
11. Placed them
12. Applied the material
13. Added a sky and colored it
14. I'm having the file render since the preview is taking too long
15. Found the preview render and it says that it won't play because it is a format that quicktime cannot read
16. In addition I found that the card render is going straight to my external hard drive and that is the reason that it was taking so long for it to render. I thought that I was rendering them out to the working volume but no.
17. I changed the render settings so that when I go to render it, it will render to the working volume
18. Copied all files to external

Day 27_Home_Tuesday (Dec 6th, 2011)

Thursday Novemeber 8th, 2011

12:00 - 12:30PM

1. Opened up file
2. Looked at the the lights
1. I might try to make them light up
3. Put a camera in
4. Starting to animate it
5. Animated the camera
6. Played through it
7. Corrected the path
8. Set up the render settings
9. Started up a preview, it's taking a while

Day 27_Class_Tuesday (Dec 6th, 2011)

1:15 - 3:00PM

1. Looked ar previous blog post
2. Opened file
3. I'm trying to figure out how my teacher did the thing that made it so that the bottom half of the sphere matched up
4. Watched Blyth go through the process twice
5. I know that I already have gone through the boolean step and that I just need to do the remaining steps
6. I don't remember how they go...
7. Tried going through the process that I remembered
8. It wasn't working out
9. I showed Blyth
10. Tried reducing polygons but it wasn't working
11. Removed the landscape and replaced it with the default landscape
12. Blyth did the process for me
13. I deleted the original landscape and globe/sphere and merged the one that Blyth had done
14. Moved things around so that they sat on top of the scape
15. I'm going to have to redo the fly-through since that camera is now flying around in the snow
16. I changed the color of the base to white
17. Added a bump to the logo so that it matched the base
18. Deleted the scape
19. Kept the cameras (for now)
20. Copied files to external drive

What needs to be done:

1. Fly-through
2. Sound/music/ambience

Day 26_Class_Thursday (Dec 1st, 2011)

12:30 - 2:30PM

1. Log in took 3 minutes
2. Opening Final Cut took another 5+
3. Everything is running slow...
4. Got files from Alex imported them into Final Cut
5. Looked at the interactive design that Alex came up with for the science video line up
6. Looked into how to change the background of the dna mov in final cut
7. I found that there is a alpha channel and a color corrector
8. I tried them both
9. The alpha channel seemed to work best but there was pixelation involved that I could solve
10. I went through the rest of the files and corrected what need to be corrected and exported them
11. All files were organized and copied onto the external drive