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After making attempt to update the dust sim within Unreal 5 so that it matched the animatic to varying results which may do us better for blocking purposes. However, it came to my attention that the dust storm needed to be compted in so I decided to switch to a Houdini, which I'm not opposed to, but

I continued to work on the dust sim a bit more until I got it to a point where we could apply it to a scene. Personally, I think that I could use some improvements and tweaks to the overall structure. For example, the way that the texture sort of flickers is something that I'll have to look into and

I FINNALY GOT THE BOAT FLOATING RIGHT!!!!!!!!! So the problem was that the center of mass wasn't set correctly. At first our boat would just tumble around because it was tiny Then, we resized the boat to be bigger to not tumble as much. but it would flip and fly up in the air. It was a mess Aft

Last week the team met up to discuss the story of our thesis as the theming around it is pretty solid, but the story itself is where we needed more work to be done. We as a group, came to the conclusion that the story itself need to be overhauled to better fith the themes of the short film. I had ev

We've been blocking out models for future assets as well as filling out the miro board full of references. I specifically am working a trident for our senior short, Nets Level (tentative). The real challenge for me going to be getting the rough shape in acurately and really getting a simplistic yet

So we just got back to working on the production of our short "DEEP CLEAN" from a nice long break, and the team came to the decision that we need to focus on making progress on a full 3d animatic. So I took a step back from doing any VFX related work and tackled some textures for vegetation, specifi

Team crab met up and we established a proper tasklist so that way I ACTUALLY KNOW what I have to sim as I did not have a reliable shot list on hand that lists the sims required for that shot. So now I actually have somewhat of a plan as to what I need to do for the film, which is something that nee

Since the short film that the group that I am a part of, one called "Nets Level" now renamed to "Deep Clean" has multiple shots where water is a thing, the first challenge was making water, which took me a while to figure out. It took me an hour of exploring Unreal 5 and all of its menus before find

After talking with the instructors, the team brainstormed different ideas regarding how to deal with this flashback sequence that the instructors keep on harping on. Which is completely valid since the flash back sequence felt really long where it should be very quick and the way we had it before al

Team Crab spent the first tow weeks of class breaking down the ground rules of our team dynamic as well as distributing team roles and compiling a shotlist and asset list. In order to put together these lists, we've created a goggle sheet as well as a Jam board and a Miro board. As for me, I've alre

After reading some of the feedback that I received from the Profs, I decided to COMPLETELY REDO THE SIM (I'm not upset, I just felt like emphasizing it for dramatic flare😂). I started a new Niagra System using the fountain sprite template and disabled the gravity node that it comes with by default.

So one of the sequences in the short requires a dust bowl sort of sim and I've been using the dust explosion template that Niagara provides in its default state. The dust explosion looks like this. The problem with this is that it starts too fast. So, I dug around a bit and found some really nic

I got some of the creatures blocked in, easy peasy. Specifically a turtle and an octopus. I have yet to block in the Whale. I also consulted Noah Kentworthz on a workflow in Houdini on schools of fish involving a POP sim with a sphere to use to attract the points as well as an offset that made the

The team very much established that we are aiming for a much more stylized art style with a dash of darker themes and an emphasis on the use of props made of sunken scrap metal. the team is meeting on Tuesday and Thursday to develop the story even further than what was already established. Other tha