Week 13 Post Production

Monday: Monday started a bit stressful. Every time I tried to animate the tree it crashed. Andrew tried and it crashed for him. He decided to quickly re-rig some of it and tried again but once again it crashed. I looked up to see what problems there were and I found a solution. If the program was crashing I should export as an OBJ then import it back in and it should fix the problem. I had a bit of trouble exporting but got it to work but before we were able to test it we had to leave because another class was coming in. I was unable to test it at home but Andrew messaged me saying it worked. I was glad but then he messaged me a few minutes later and it still crashed. I decided to fix this tomorrow.

Tuesday: Today was a bit stress filled once again due to the tree crashing again. Ed wasn't at class at the time due to work so I asked if I could try and fix it before he got here and if it wasn't fixed before he got here we'll scrap the animation in 3DS Max and do it in After Effects. I found another solution that the model itself might be corrupt. So I had to select all the faces of the tree, detach it to a new object. I did it and it finally worked without crashing.

Thursday: Today wasn't spent animating the tree unfortunately I saw some of the meshes bent strangely when I moved it and I had to spend a bit of time looking for weird meshes in the tree while showing them to Andrew so he could fix them. I decided to do the animation at home to save us some time. Everyone's getting a little stressed since we only have one week until the "final presentation".

Week 12 Post Production

Tuesday: We came back from our one week off to find out we had to present again. We weren't ready and didn't have each others files so we did a lackluster job of presenting what we currently had. We showed our rigging process and our model because we had no other files. We got some criticism from our teacher and I wrote them down to tell to Ed and Cairnaghn so they know incase one of us was away to always have each others files. We decided to fix up some of our documentation that still needed to be addressed since we didn't have much to do without the main files. I was going to animate but the tree was apparently still having some slight glitches when it moves so I still have to wait.

Thursday: The group wanted to have a quick meeting to talk about what was happening and what we needed to do. We told each other what we're doing at the moment then went off to do our separate things. I spent most of my day with Andrew talking about the tree and getting ready to animate it.

Week 11 Post Production

Monday: I talked to Andrew about the tree but apparently he hadn't started the rigging yet so I had to wait a bit until he finished with it. Nothing else of importance happened.

Tuesday: I was feeling pretty useless today as I had nothing to do until I got the tree. I looked around at other peoples work while talking to them what our plan was. We were planning of talking tomorrow about what we need to do and finish.

Thursday: We started the day with a quick meeting about what was happening. Dom and Ed just said they were working on the shots. Andrew said he finished the tree rig already but just needs to rename the bones so he can skin them and it will be all ready for the animation process. I was pretty excited for it since it meant I could finally do something. A picture of the tree: