Monday, December 16, 2013

So honestly today was not the best class so far   like in terms of amount of things I finished, I was working on two things the entire class and unfortunately I was not able to fix it the way I really wanted it. Firstly I wanted to delete my keyframe because it was missing up my poses, each time I started the timeline from the beginning it missed up the pose of the character. Another thing that I wanted to get done which I found a solution to almost at the end of the lesson was a tutorial exactly about what I wanted to figure out. It was talking about how to control the bones exactly the way I want them to move. Because every time I moved the bones of my character it would move everything and everywhere, But during one of the days before I travel I will try my best to work and finish the tutorial so that I have my character and his bones ready and setup so when we come back to school I would be able to move around my character and play around with it a little it. Hopefully this would turn out to be pretty good.




Friday, December 13, 2013

So today I worked on adding bones to the character which unfortunately took the entire block, But at least I was able to finish it and play around with it a little. It took me a long time because in order to add bones to something the parts of the body on both sides must be equal and proportional so I had to work on mine for a little Until I got it to work very nicely. But unfortunately I came across a problem just like I always do. Whenever I want to recored a pose like the man walking in a straight line it doesn't work because I already have an animation in my keyframe and it is not letting me to delete it. But When I am able to delete it than I should be able to start the recording. Hopefully next class. Here is a picture of the bones.

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Today I got a lot done, At first I went and looked for the clock that I had made on the desktop computer, thankfully I had it saved as a blender file somewhere so I used my USB to transfer it to my laptop. Than I opened up the first character that I made and copied the clock and added it, I also copied the table I made last class and that also worked. Things worked out very well. Until i came up with a problem, As I was rendering the file to see how it looked like the character and the table looked fine but for the clock the only thing I could see was the shadow of it. So than I tried many things to fix it like adding light in various area but that also didn't help me. So than while I was searching on google what to do I came across the same identical clock that I had made but the only difference was the colour. I was able to download it because it was a blender file and it surprisingly  worked perfectly. So I deleted the clock that I made and inserted this new one. Than I added colour to the character and it ended up looking like this. Overall it it was a good class

Monday, December 9, 2013

So today was very good class, In my opinion i got a lot done. At first I tried working on copying the character which failed so I'm gonna wait until I talk to Nabil. After that I decided to watch a tutorial which talked about how to duplicate things which is like a mirror effect. This was the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxP58EQYgvY 
After that I decided to start creating a table for my project where the clock is going to be seated. That took most of the class to do. I also found a website that provides you with any texture you want for your project which was also great. http://www.texturemate.com/content/free-texture-tile-2010080401
There is something I need to work on is knowing which object is the texture going to be on. This is the final table for today I will most likely make it better next time and add some things to it. 


Thursday, December 5, 2013

So 2 days ago I had asked Nabil to check and see if he still had his blender file from last year so that he could send to me. So he found it and send it to me yesterday, today when I entered class I started downloading the file he gave to the desktop computer at school so that I could copy the character from his movie into my scene on a different blender file. Things did not work so good, Everything was working perfectly well i had copied the character and started to add some bones which was looking like this which is pretty good.


Until after when I changed the mode from edited more to object mode it completely messed up for some reason and I still haven't figured how to solve it. It looked like this afterwards
So I went and talked to Nabil about it and he said that he is gonna try to help me try and fix it. Since he had the same problems when he was doing this. 

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

So today I was able to figure out how to add sound to my project. The reason why it was not working in the end of last class was because I was adding a sound to a game. Since I have decided to make a video out of the animation I have to know everything that is needed to be in the video. For example sound is important also moving the objects is important that i am now also able to do. I practiced moving objects today which works will for me. All thats left until i start my project is adding and moving bones for the character  which Im planing on doing next class. I am also planing on ask Nabil wither he still has his animated character from last year that I would be able to use. His character is exactly the sort of thing that I need. So until next class I am going to ask him to send it to me.