by cfang101 I learnt how to create a nadir to cover the tripod in 360 videos, how to use Unity and Maya together, and the workflow of making spatial audio. Nadir is really useful when it comes to filming of 360 videos because there is nowhere that the audience can't see. We need to find a way to hide the stuff that take them away from the story. Nadir is a really helpful tool to do that and I used it for both of the 360 videos I made this semester. I...
by cfang101 For the final project, Let Me In, I decided to team up with Alina and made a sequel of our group project: Let Me Out (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bf6ERtaNaQ) We used the Sennheiser Ambisonics Microphone to record the soundtrack for Let Me In. This wasn't what we originally planned to do but definitely was more challenging and rewarding. We both want to make something more than just shoot and put-them-together type of project so we went through a week of filming, recording and post-production. We pictured one of the plots of the story should be...
by cfang101 cat by Kanda on Sketchfab I used Trnia for this assignment and I didn't really like it. Even it's only $0.99, it still doesn't worth the money. First of all, the preview took forever and I had to exit the app way too many times to manually refresh and finally finish previewing. And that applies to publish the project too. After the whole thing's done. I linked my sketchfab account to Trnia and went back to my profile page. Somehow it's not showing up in my project. It's just gone....
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by cfang101 For this assignment, I picked a cartoony character from Mixamo with several different animations. I tried different methods to present what I had in mind and this is the closest version I can get. I pictured the character to start with the "idle" animation and when I trigger enter the first sphere, he would start walking. When he gets to the music note, he would jump over it and walk back to original position. I first started with the character an idle animation as default and try to put "play...
by cfang101 For my project, I tried to transport the first person controller(player) via a cart by triggering and using playmaker to move both the fpc and the cart. And I really wanted to design an interactive scene/plot inside a wooden cabin rather than outside. However after I finished Unity popped up a window saying there are complier errors existing in the scene and I couldn't enter playmode to record. So I tried a second time this morning trying to figure what the problem is and I think it has something to do...
For this assignment, I was really trying to get familiar with Unity's interface and shortcuts etc. I’m learning Maya for another class at the same time and it was kind of confusing to switch between two different softwares. I find Maya easier to control in general. For example, in Unity I couldn't figure out how to successfully apply a texture to an object. I imported the building and two trees into Unity from models I made in Maya. However I think the building's a little tilted. And for some reason...
Repost from Alina: Team members: Alina Li, Baiyu Gao, Kanda Fang, Lillion Hunt, Shiyi Liu We filmed in a restroom without mirror in Newhouse. We discussed a lots of details before filming, for example, the position of camera, the walking path of the ghost, and how to knock the doors. The plot of the girl washing hands was not in our original idea, but we wanted to draw people's attention and let audience turn around. We found a lot problems when we were shooting: persons behind each door could not...
by cfang101 I truly had lots of ideas for both 36o videos and computer generated scenes made in unity. However, they're either too much of a scale to be made for a short film, or they're currently beyond my ability to realize them (but I'll work on that someday later). After spending probably two hours on Youtube and the hall of fame here, I think I made up my mind, for now. My idea is to generate an immersive room escape experience short clip. Maybe with a little off screen narrative. I...