End of Marking Period 1 Blog Posts Peer Review

End of Marking Period 1 Blog Posts Peer Review

After reviewing some of my peer's end of marking period 1 blog posts, I have learned about many of my classmate's projects. Many of these projects interest me greatly.

My friend Keaton's project was the first to peak my interest. He is currently working on an environment for a virtual reality (VR) animation that he is doing, see the video that I have on this blog for more information about VR animations. The environment he is working on is strikingly similar to the flight deck of the Star Ship Enterprise found in the Star Trek series. This fact alone is enough for me to instantly fall in love with it, but Keaton is also putting a lot of time into making sure that every square inch of his space ship is filled to the brim with details, as anyone can go and look anywhere in the scene.

Another one of my friends Michael is currently working on the scenery and initial modeling for characters in a, supposedly, action packed animation. I have been friends with Michael for the longest time, since middle school actually, and I have seen the development of most of the characters that he wishes to have in this animation and the story line and action sequence of this animation come to life over the years. I hope that this animation turns out as good as he has been telling me, because I feel partially connected to both the characters and he animation as a whole.

Unreal Engine is another game engine just like Unity!
Unreal is used more due to how easy it is to make a game in it,
however Unity is slightly better thanks to it's better licensing policies.

There are two more people whose projects have stood out to me. Bado is currently working on a video game inside of Unreal Engine 4 (another game engine). From the sounds of it, the game play will be very similar to Ninjio. The other person whose project really spoke to me was Garet's. He is currently working on bring a fantasy world to life. This world of his has apparently been around since he was in elementary school, quite like how Ninjio's world was created when I was a junior in high school. I wish both of these people the utmost luck and hope that their projects exceed any standards they set forth for themselves.

This week's work log:

Monday October 30th: View a few classmate’s end of marking period blog posts

Tuesday October 31th: Started working on Bing Nu’s animation

Wednesday November 1st: Finished up the first idle animation for Bing Nu

Thursday November 2nd: Finished another idle animation for Bing Nu

Friday November 3rd: Made a walk cycle for Bing Nu and played around with IK in Unity