Evaluation

Throughout this project I kept having the idea that I was going to create something big and aim for a project that would give a strong start to the year however I didn’t realize that I was highly limited on time and due to me thinking big I wasn’t able to manage my time well.. However throughout the project I did achieve and discover ways on how to use bi-frost in Maya and understand how the material settings effected the cloud textures majorly. Creating the cloud took up a lot of my time as I had never done it before and a lot of the settings kept going wrong and in the end it wasn’t looking like a proper cloud. Before I knew it, I was reaching deadline. I did try to use the other side of bi-frost and create a moving sea to then create a sea with bi-frost clouds above it but I wasn’t able to understand the sea physics in time. So I moved into Unity and I was able to use a shader I had been working on to help myself make a lake in which I then got some particles and made some faint clouds in the far distance. I used this to first set the scene and then I thought I still needed more as a lake view wasn’t good enough so I made a paper boat model and placed a basic shader on it along with a normal wooden plank texture. I then seen that the water shader I had been working on allowed me to make ripples with the boat moving through so I decided to make a paper boat floating through water. At first I was a little worried as I wasn’t fully confident in doing key framing animations however in the end I was able to create a short animation of the boat floating through. In an overall conclusion to this I will say that my time management for this project wasn’t the best as I wasn’t able to manage it well and make a clear aim for how much time I had left. I also believe that this time didn’t go to waste as I was able to discover multiple things I wasn’t able to do before such as being able to use bi-frost to make realistic looking fluffy clouds as well as trying to use bi-frost to achieve a sea scene. down below is the short animation I created of the paper boat floating through a lake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hocJnTgXq_c&feature=youtu.be