Day 9

Today, we came to office at around 9am. After settling down, I surfed the internet for a little while. After that, there was a demo lecture by Jeff Wagner using Vidyo. The demos that he did was very good, but a little too fast for me if you ask me. I tried following but I couldn't really catch up. I ended up just sitting there listening to what he is saying.

The demo ended at around 11plus. Oh gosh, I remembered I had to rebuild the secondary fracture file for Mr Douglas and also document it. I started doing it. After doing it for awhile, say, 12plus, We went for lunch.

We came back at around 1. Eric was having his dry run on his attribute class which will happen this evening. He was in the midst of it and we just came in quietly and sat down. He was going through, local, global variables, painting attributes, attributes transfers and stuffs like that.

His dry run lesson ended at around 4pm. We messed around with his files for a little while before Corinne came and gave us a lecture on procedural modeling. At first she showed us a organic model which one of the other intern did. It was amazing. Just by looking at the number of nodes scares people. I guess I still have a fear of modeling, especially procedural modeling.

She started the class by doing a in-class exercise with us. It was to model a bridge procedurally. We started off with a curve. We stretched the curve a little and made the parts of the terrain which the curve was touching flat. That was done using a vopsop. A circle was used and copied onto the curve itself to create the arcs. The circles are trimed away from the curve leaving its shape outline behind. Then some volume is given to it at the end. She told us as our little assignment, try to make the bridge more procedural, and also try to improve it. I wonder will Ari take a look at it when he gets back. Anyways, tomorrow is VOPSOP class. Hopefully will learn something new.

After her class ended, We stayed behind till around 6pm. I continued finishing the file Mr Douglas wanted. But I realised that when I did it, I encountered some stupid orient problem which screws up the entire thing. Gosh. Will look through it tomorrow.

Sorry, no pictures though, not sure if they any can be posted.