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Conception
• What is your project?
An animation to represent my bathroom.
• What did you want the audience to gain from your animation?
To understand how I work and progress through challenges.
• Why did you design your project that way?
Familiar with the area, all I have to do was remake it.
• What was your thought behind your project?
To help increase my skills in texturing. To learn new areas of said texturing.
• What did you use to complete your project?
Lydia.com was used for understanding all of the new texturing methods.
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Planning
• Did you run into any issues while planning your project?
Too many objects in my bathroom making somethings not end up being modeled.
• Write 3-5 sentences about your plan of execution.
I planned to model all objects relatively quickly. Afterward modeling I would texturing each object to most closely represent. Finish off with lighting and other finishing textures and models.
• What did you have to do Pre-Production/Creation?
Take reference pictures of the bathroom for closer textures and models.
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Creation
• Describe the process of making your animation.
I started modeling objects but in the process I textured some depending on difficulty of the texture. For instance the walls I gave a texture very early on since all I had to do was get the color right. After modeling and texturing most of the objects I added the lighting system.
• What parts took longer than expected? How did you compensate the extra time spent?
Some of the harder textures like the texture for the sink which happens to be used for about 80% of the metal in the bathroom.
• Did you have to go back to the conception phase to rethink your idea and replan?
No but I did have to cut out some of the objects planned like rugs and towels.
• How did you use the resources available as you worked on your project?
I barely went back to Lynda after learning most of it except for a few textures.
• What personal celebrations did you have? What part are you most proud of in your animation?
Some of the most simple things were actually my favorite. These things included the mirror the toilet and the drawers for the sink.
• Did you have to shorten your plan or where you on time the entire quarter?
I had to cut some things the main reason why is because of me being sick for about 2 weeks. Otherwise I would say I was ahead if not perfectly on time.
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Self-Critique
• What are three things that you can say you learned about making the project?
Learned some of the lighting effects that are in maya's mental ray and that mental ray has textures of their own which are actually are very good texturing.
• What was one issue you had while making your project?
The biggest issue either would being sick or getting some of the colors for the textures right.
• If you could redo any part what would it be? and how would you fix it?
Shower head sizing, flooring overall, and camera movements which can't be seen since I can not render right now.
• How do you feel about your work/animation?
I feel proud but I feel like I didn't learn a ton from what I expected. I think it is just that because I am the creator it is much easier to find errors in my creation since I know of the errors myself, as well as I am quite hard on myself.
• What do you feel good about, and what do you feel needs more time?
I feel good about the toilet, lighting, and the sink overall (except for faucet). What needs more time is the flooring.
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After Class Critique
• What are two things that the class/teacher said about your animation? One Good and One Bad.
Scaling of objects seem off (specially for the shower head). Nice attention to detail like the bevel on the mirror and the lip on the sink.
• How are you going to fix the issue? Was it dealing with, keyframes, timing, ease in/out?
Going through and sizing some of the objects like the shower head.
• Are there any part of the critique that you disagree with? Why?
I was told that the metals all around the bathroom should match (being the same metal). While I had 3 different metals in the bathroom. This is due to that is what is truly in my bathroom. I don't feel like I should change what the truth is to make some metals match.
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