Assignment 4 – Ariel Wang

    As a filmmaker who is obsessed with the idea of creating new worlds, I was incredibly excited to learn to use Unity bring my worlds to life. I was surprised how easy it is to start creating a scene, but that amazement quickly turned into frustration when I realized how technical and not user-friendly the interface is. I really like the idea of pre-made assets from the store, which makes it so much easier for beginners like me to learn the software. One thing that took up a...

Assignment 4 – Katie Conti

Unity Scene: The Beach at the Pink Lake By Katie Conti - NEW 400 My first impression of Unity: this platform is MAGICAL. I'm thrilled to have the chance to create a world such as this, and experience it in 3D. Back in the day, I was a pretty big fan of Zoo Tycoon and other "make your own world" type of PC games, however, I definitely felt a bit of a learning curve when starting this project. I started by downloading several asset packages from the store that is...

Assignment 4 by Samarth Sharma

“Unity is not a user-friendly software,” I was told by a friend who had taken the VR storytelling class before. “It crashes a lot,” he added. Even after hearing these words, I did not lose the excitement to try my hands on a gaming software. A public relations professional who also knows how to use a gaming software! That’s a crucial skill to add on my resume. This was one of the reasons I enrolled in this class. Finally, I am here writing a blog post about my first encounter...

Assignment 4 Desiderio

I created a small farm town in Unity with many different types of houses and farm animals.  Everything seems normal until you look up and see a cow being taken by a UFO!  It was a fun small scene to make and learn the ropes of Unity, but I definitely have a few ideas of some different ways I could have expanded the scene’s scale.  While I was able to eventually get the sound to work, I wasn’t able to record it on QuickTime.  Overall, it was great to play...

Assignment 4 – Brian Shantz

This was my first time really delving into Unity, and I found it to be both extremely satisfying and extremely frustrating at the same time. Although it was pretty easy to hop into Unity with the basics we learned in class, I soon realized that everything in Unity needs to be extremely precise. I was having a hard time lining up my models with each other at some times. Also, I was unable to get my audio to look, which is something that would have made the fireworks ore engaging....

Assignment4_Erin_Qiu

It was the first time for me to mess around in Unity, and it was quite fascinating. I made a sunset scenario with a whale floating in the air. I used some free models including cat and houses from the unity store. However, I encountered several problems when building the world. The audio stopped working as I (first person perspective ) walked near the whale. It was super weird because it worked when I first linked the audio, but after that it would not work even I deleted the audio...

Assignment 4: Tania Joseph

BEACH SCENE USING UNITY I really enjoyed my abroad experience in Barbados and I'm in love with the beach so I created a beach scene using Unity! Successes and Failures  Some of the things I tried were moving the objects I added to the scene to the plain once they ended up "in the sky" or far away from the plain. This was a very complicated process for me trying to change the perspective and move the objects so I ended up deleted the objects from "the sky" and replacing...

Assignment 4: Joel Sherman

I thought, overall, that creating the Unity scene went well. The scene ended up having the rough shape of what I was envisioning. One problem I had was that I was unable to get the castle walls flush with each other. There were gaps between some of the sections. Also, the hill that the tower is on is too steep. However, I am happy that I was able to have the sound from the spaceship overhead be visible on the ground. There are a few things that I still need...

Assignment 4 – Yeagee Jung

I made a whimsical land where there are mutant farm animals that are our protagonists. They want to escape the dry famine land so they venture across the land and reach a lush mountainside, but are stopped by a small faction that seem to belong to a bigger army. It was really fun making this land and I liked being able to pick and choose my assets to go into the space. The sound element of the exercise didn't work for me; I kept trying to attach a sound to...

Assignment 3: Joel Sherman

Our group went through two different ideas before we settled on filming the swimming practice. The first idea we had was to film the Chinese New Year celebrations in New York City. Ariel was planning to go down there, so our plan was to have her take a 360 camera and film what she sees. She would then upload her footage onto Google Drive, and Yeagee and I would edit it. Ariel couldn’t rent a camera for the duration of the trip, so the plan fell through. Plan B was...