For unity assignments and the final project, I took two unity courses in Lynda.com. The first one is Unity 5: 3D Essential Training. The most practical lessons I earned from the course are the notion of meshes and the sound setting. What I meant by the sound setting is the spatial sound which is sensitive the location of the source and the listener. As I wrote in the post of Assignment 5, through this course, I could find the reason for unavailability of the spatial sound in a Unity scene. The other...
Life’s rough if you’re a Final Cut Pro X user – while your Adobe Premiere Pro-using friends get built-in support for VR videos, we’re left out in the cold with nothing. Sure, if you’re using footage that’s been converted to equirectangular format (like the kind that comes directly out of the Nikon KeyMission 360 or the Action Director-produced files of the Samsung Gear 360) then you’ll at least be able to force it in, output it in the proper resolution, and then add proper meta information for 360 using the...
Samsung Gear360 Manager – Independent Learning
by Anna Leach
- December 14
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For my final project, I decided to film using the Samsung Gear360 camera. One of the "perks" of using this device is certain Samsung cell phones can download the Samsung Gear360 Manager app, which acts as a sort of virtual remote for the camera. Configuration The camera connects to Manager via its own Bluetooth signal. Once the app is launched, the user is prompted to pair it with any Gear360 camera whose signal is on and within range (which through trial and error, I discovered was fairly strong up even at...
Learning to Plan (Rosa Independent Learning)
by jarosajr
- May 12
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Moving from photography to video production this year forced me to add to my workflow. Capturing one single moment in a photographic frame is easy to do on the fly. Videography requires planning. Last semester I added pre-production planning and story boarding to my workflow to help me make better videos. When I moved to 360 degree videos, my workflow needed to adapt again. A standard storyboard is useless for 360 degree video. I cannot put a subject in a part of a frame. I cannot move the camera. I...
So thanks Prof. Ken Harper for reminding me about this blog post! The independent study that I looked into was Learning Adobe Fuse to design my own characters. It's unfortunate that I didn't apply any of these actual skills that I learned to my projects, it probably would've added a little bit of pizzazz to a lot of them. I learned about all the different forms of character customization all the way down to the material of the clothing that my character was wearing and the patterns that are displayed...
By Juli Whetstone For my independent learning requirement I completed the Unity 5: 3D Essential Training Course on Lynda.com. It was extremely helpful to do while completing my final project. Even after our class assignments in Unity, I still felt uncomfortable using the program. This course helped me learn more about how things worked and just review the basics. It was nice because it started from the very beginning with just setting up a project. It was particularly useful for learning about working with particle systems because that is...