For my final, I wanted to do both a 360 video and a Unity PSA. Unfortunately, the 360 video portion fell through because every file on my computer was deleted after I deleted all of my video files, but I was able to salvage and redo my Unity project. For my Unity project, I started with just water, my FPS controller, and a boat. From there, I made a trigger that activates when you walk towards the wheel using playmaker. When you activate the trigger, audio begins to play,...
For my Lynda.com video requirement, I watched the video and took the quiz titled "Getting Started in Video Editing and Production. I chose to watch this video because the career path that I want to follow is documentary style video journalism, whether it's 360 video or regular 2d video. The instructor says something that hits close to home for me and that was, "if you want to shoot a video, the last thing you should do is go out and shoot." This means that you need to actually think...
Playmaker Test- The Thriller Experience
by Alec Posner
- April 14
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While playmaker was tough for me to pick up at first, the interface was very easy to use after a few hours of messing around with it. In this scene, I have the "Alec" that I created in Mixamo get bitten by a zombie. Then, as all zombies like to do, he started to do the Thriller dance. I found that Playmaker didn't work (on my computer at least) unless the "Game Option"dropdown had Specific Game Object selected.
Elevator Pitch: PSA Series
- March 22
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I think that if I further expand upon the PSA theme used in my other assignment, I can make some very impactful content. I could use both 360 video and Unity (like Nonni De La Pena) and it can be about everyday personal issues or climate change type things. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0BfeuHAmmIZWkZUOFBVX2dEUVk/view
Unity Test
- March 12
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For my unity test, I did a scene with a nice looking skybox, a boat in the water, and a whale underneath. I was at first attempting to make it so there was a net on the whale, as if someone on the boat was hunting it, but I couldn't figure out how. With the boat, I added a engine noise that has a range of about 50 meters. I have many trees and water surrounding the area, giving it a nice, serene look. I didn't add those myself, but...
For my assignment 5, I wanted to show how crowded Bird Library gets during a week like midterms or finals week. As someone who goes to the library my fair share, it is definitely obvious that there is more foot traffic going in and out of the building now that at regular times during the semester. As for the video, recording with the Samsung Gear 360 is way better than recording with the Omni, in my opinion. Stitching with Autopano can be a huge time-sucker, and may not look good...