I used a series of 360 video Stitch tutorials to stitch together footage for both my final project and my drone flight over Pratts Falls. I was starting with no knowledge of how to use the software, so I watched this overview tutorial to get started. This helped me get a feel for how the software works and gave me a basic understanding of what to expect when using it. I then watched this tutorial on synchronization. This is an important part of making sure the 6 videos are lined...

Assignment 6 was one of the easier assignments for me to complete. I already had my scene ready, so all I had to do was put in a few sounds to make it work. I had one minor complication in that the camera has an audio output, and it takes all the sound and outputs it at once. So, when I gave the gorilla in my scene a howling noise, you could hear no matter where you were in the scene. To fix this, all I had to do was...

Assignment five was a mixture of hope, frustration and ultimately disappointment. I was very excited to create a scene in which I could 3-D scan real-life objects into it, because there is a fascination associated with seeing real-life things in a virtual setting. It’s almost like it shouldn’t be there, and when it is you get this giddy sensation and think “Hey! I know what that is! I see that all the time!” Unfortunately, though, the technology just isn’t quite there yet to elicit such a response.   At first...

I was on video team one, so I had a lot of difficulty with this assignment. The funny thing is I somehow stumbled into making my project work. I downloaded a character from Mixamo, Douglas, at least four times but I couldn’t get one to work with the normal skin and outfit on. The fifth time it worked perfectly, albeit he was in zombie mode. After I fixed him up, I then made an army of Douglas’, each of whom danced to the animation “Thriller Part 3”. After that, I...

When we initially worked with Playmaker in class I thought to myself, “This is pretty easy.” So, I when I went to start assignment three, I figured I’d spend maybe 30-45 minutes creating a somewhat complex animation in a somewhat complex environment. I was very wrong. It took me three plus attempts, and almost two hours to finally figure out how to get a treasure box to open and close and a whale to dive into the ground upon command. It was a frustrating process to say the least. My...