Category: Collaborative Unit

The main focus of these weeks has been handing over resources and making footage, as well as sequences.
There have been a few problems with handing over resource content.
The centre of the model was not right
The model had multiple faces
This added to the workload during the handover.
I also made the material of the radish house with parallax to make it look furry (I like this part). At the same time I realised that I should have created a generic material first and written the interface before creating each material. That would have saved a lot of time and given better results.
At the same time I watched some tutorials on rendering to learn how to handle the render better.

Basic information about the group
Group members:Kaiyue Wang(me) ,Zeng deng ,Jixuan Chen ,Jiahao Yang ,Jiawe Chen

Topic:

Causality

(Cause and Effect)

Story:

I envisaged many complex stories, but I finally chose the simplest one. It comes from a familiar proverb: no pain, no gain.

The main story is about the main character who plants a star. The star also refers to the dream, and all the efforts the hero makes to achieve it are the sweat and toil that every dreamer puts in to achieve his or her dream.

I hope that this story will bring encouragement and resonance to everyone who is still pursuing their dreams, and that the audience will be able to relate to themselves.

Some vetoed stories：

The Disappearing Companion
Old Li’s old companion has been lost for two hundred years.
Old Li found her from the age of 60 to the age of 80, until she found herself dead
No one is seen alive, no body is seen dead
The day after his grandson’s full moon drink, his partner went to the usual place to buy and wash the vegetables, ring the stove and put out the dishes.
The day after his grandson’s first month of marriage, his partner bought and washed vegetables as usual, rang the stove, and served them on a plate. When his partner called out to Lao Li, the sweet and sour chops were shiny and oily, the scaly and greedy white rice was steaming hot, and the rice was overflowing with fragrance. Old Li smashed his mouth and said, “Where to go?
Go on, come and eat!
The door opened and the breeze blew in. Old Li looked up and squinted, his back was slightly bowed in yellow and black trousers, with short curly hair. The company’s newest product is a new product, a new product that has been developed by the company. The son said dad, you first go to the neighborhood neighborhood around, maybe in the dance, if it is dark still no one, we will call the police, the police computer probe a chase, people will find. The sons and daughters-in-law are all here, all gathered behind the police, staring at the screen. The old companion came out of the neighborhood, calm and collected, turned into a small road, an unnamed alley, connected to another small road, the camera only shines to see the entrance and exit, the old companion walked into, slow, no out. The people are amazed, but the old Li wondered, his own and his partner childhood sweetheart, the door is right, although not so much to each other, but at least with food and sleep for more than 30 years, how to say leave it? It took a lot of effort to post the poles, looking for the east and west, all kinds of media, microblogging WeChat, the beginning is still looking for people, and then is a paranormal event, horror stories, live long see, the world’s top ten unsolved mysteries. After a few months, the crowd dispersed and was made into a documentary as a suspicious case. Only old Li was left, three meals a day, tasteless and empty-headed, day in and day out, reflecting on the bland days of the past when he couldn’t dig a red face. The only thing I remember is that one time, I was so anxious to drink borscht that I put an astrophysics book that my partner loved to read under the hot pot, picked up a spoon to fish for red sausage and dripped a few drops of eggplant-flavored red soup on the book.
I’ve been cooking without salt for three days.
At the end of the twenty-first century, after twenty years of distraction, Old Li is still in his prime.
He had no more breath left. Before he died, he gathered his children and grandchildren and issued a final
“No matter what parallel universes or quantum worlds, you must
help me find this old woman, Feng Xiuzhen.
If you cannot find her, let your children and grandchildren continue to search for her.
Find her and burn a letter to tell me.
Old Li was lucky enough to have a writer, Li Moyan, who wrote about it in a book and the book was widely circulated, finally replacing the will of generations. But the old woman, who had left, remained silent. Feng Xiuzhen a kind face, standard and old the impact of the disappearance of events stretched over a century, has become the world’s most famous face. Surveillance videos from two hundred years ago are still reproduced online, the first person to go missing under the eyes of all the people in the ancient world!
There is evidence for this.
Strangely enough, there are people who keep threatening to say they have seen the missing person, releasing some accompanying photos of a group of people from far away, in which a face that seems to be the boss Feng when morning across the street from a distance but no face-to-face encounter, a check of the surveillance, and can not find traces, people are on edge, the worldThe Disappearing Companion
Old Li’s old companion has been lost for two hundred years.
Old Li found her from the age of 60 to the age of 80, until she found herself dead
No one is seen alive, no body is seen dead
The day after his grandson’s full moon drink, his partner went to the usual place to buy and wash the vegetables, ring the stove and put out the dishes.
The day after his grandson’s first month of marriage, his partner bought and washed vegetables as usual, rang the stove, and served them on a plate. When his partner called out to Lao Li, the sweet and sour chops were shiny and oily, the scaly and greedy white rice was steaming hot, and the rice was overflowing with fragrance. Old Li smashed his mouth and said, “Where to go?
Go on, come and eat!
The door opened and the breeze blew in. Old Li looked up and squinted, his back was slightly bowed in yellow and black trousers, with short curly hair. The company’s newest product is a new product, a new product that has been developed by the company. The son said dad, you first go to the neighborhood neighborhood around, maybe in the dance, if it is dark still no one, we will call the police, the police computer probe a chase, people will find. The sons and daughters-in-law are all here, all gathered behind the police, staring at the screen. The old companion came out of the neighborhood, calm and collected, turned into a small road, an unnamed alley, connected to another small road, the camera only shines to see the entrance and exit, the old companion walked into, slow, no out. The people are amazed, but the old Li wondered, his own and his partner childhood sweetheart, the door is right, although not so much to each other, but at least with food and sleep for more than 30 years, how to say leave it? It took a lot of effort to post the poles, looking for the east and west, all kinds of media, microblogging WeChat, the beginning is still looking for people, and then is a paranormal event, horror stories, live long see, the world’s top ten unsolved mysteries. After a few months, the crowd dispersed and was made into a documentary as a suspicious case. Only old Li was left, three meals a day, tasteless and empty-headed, day in and day out, reflecting on the bland days of the past when he couldn’t dig a red face. The only thing I remember is that one time, I was so anxious to drink borscht that I put an astrophysics book that my partner loved to read under the hot pot, picked up a spoon to fish for red sausage and dripped a few drops of eggplant-flavored red soup on the book.
I’ve been cooking without salt for three days.
At the end of the twenty-first century, after twenty years of distraction, Old Li is still in his prime.
He had no more breath left. Before he died, he gathered his children and grandchildren and issued a final
“No matter what parallel universes or quantum worlds, you must
help me find this old woman, Feng Xiuzhen.
If you cannot find her, let your children and grandchildren continue to search for her.
Find her and burn a letter to tell me.
Old Li was lucky enough to have a writer, Li Moyan, who wrote about it in a book and the book was widely circulated, finally replacing the will of generations. But the old woman, who had left, remained silent. Feng Xiuzhen a kind face, standard and old the impact of the disappearance of events stretched over a century, has become the world’s most famous face. Surveillance videos from two hundred years ago are still reproduced online, the first person to go missing under the eyes of all the people in the ancient world!
There is evidence for this.
Strangely enough, there are people who keep threatening to say they have seen the missing person, releasing some accompanying photos of a group of people from far away, in which a face that seems to be the boss Feng when morning across the street from a distance but no face-to-face encounter, a check of the surveillance, and can not find traces, people are on edge, the world
The world was in a state of panic.
In 2125, public space surveillance systems were perfected and the Global Privacy Act was amended several times, leaving no dead space in key sectors, public and private properties, toilets and bathrooms, indoors and outdoors. In the year 2200, with the advancement of science and technology, the colonies on Mars and the Moon were populated and the age of the solar system was ushered in. 2248, the world was united, energy was shared and there was no distinction between races. Mankind has never been more powerful.
In 2453, a singularity bomb, the weight of a star at the fraction of a millimetre, destroys the Sun in an instant and brings the end of humanity. 8 minutes and 18 seconds later, mankind spends its last moments of joy, the sun and moon are lost, the carriers roll, and the Earth is stripped of its shell. For billions of years afterwards, the Earth wandered needlessly around the galaxy
In the year of the Earth, 52,500,198 A.D., the sub-civilisation, having annihilated the rest of the civilisations in the universe, begins to formulate plans for a cosmic reboot. The universe, after ten billion years of growth, war and change, is finally about to be reborn
A and B, members of the sub-civilisation’s cosmic reboot command, are busy recovering matter from the universe.
A: Please confirm that all mass in this universe has been recovered
B: 99.99% has been recovered.
A: No.
A: No, we must ensure 100% recovery before we can reboot. B: Searching for remnant material.
Position not confirmed.
A: How much energy do we have left for the search?
B: 37% left, which should be enough for another traversal
A: OK, keep looking, and make sure you succeed.
 
The world was in a state of panic.
In 2125, public space surveillance systems were perfected and the Global Privacy Act was amended several times, leaving no dead space in key sectors, public and private properties, toilets and bathrooms, indoors and outdoors. In the year 2200, with the advancement of science and technology, the colonies on Mars and the Moon were populated and the age of the solar system was ushered in. 2248, the world was united, energy was shared and there was no distinction between races. Mankind has never been more powerful.
In 2453, a singularity bomb, the weight of a star at the fraction of a millimetre, destroys the Sun in an instant and brings the end of humanity. 8 minutes and 18 seconds later, mankind spends its last moments of joy, the sun and moon are lost, the carriers roll, and the Earth is stripped of its shell. For billions of years afterwards, the Earth wandered needlessly around the galaxy
In the year of the Earth, 52,500,198 A.D., the sub-civilisation, having annihilated the rest of the civilisations in the universe, begins to formulate plans for a cosmic reboot. The universe, after ten billion years of growth, war and change, is finally about to be reborn
A and B, members of the sub-civilisation’s cosmic reboot command, are busy recovering matter from the universe.
A: Please confirm that all mass in this universe has been recovered
B: 99.99% has been recovered.
A: No.
A: No, we must ensure 100% recovery before we can reboot. B: Searching for remnant material.
Position not confirmed.
A: How much energy do we have left for the search?
B: 37% left, which should be enough for another traversal
A: OK, keep looking, and make sure you succeed.
 

reason：Difficult to produce

Collaborative Unit Presentation.pptx (sharepoint.com)

The PowerPoint produced for use in the report

This collaborative project revealed many problems, not only in the group work but also in myself.
We had three main problems with this group work.

1. we did not have a clear timeline and ddl, which also led to an unbalanced workload
2. we did not make the formatting requirements clear enough when matching resources
3. we did not have enough communication and adjustment sessions

The first issue was particularly important in the group work, as we were all organising the resources ourselves and producing them ourselves. So sometimes we didn’t know exactly what other people were doing, and we didn’t know when to transfer resources. This time we were lucky that we all had a prototype in our heads and no one was behind on their resources, otherwise there would have been major time management problems and we would not have been able to finish the project. Also, because we didn’t know exactly what each other was producing, some people were doing a relatively small amount of work, while others were working overtime. This is not really conducive to teamwork.
So in the next group collaboration I will take the initiative to ask for this and get everyone to work out and organise the workload together.

The second problem was that neither of our groups knew much about what the other was producing. I didn’t fully understand the nature of 3d animation and they weren’t sure exactly what I wanted in terms of model quality and requirements. So at the beginning I just told them that I needed the model mapped and in fbx format, which led to problems with single-sided models going through the mould and multiple points in the animation that prevented the animation from being imported successfully. If I had told them this at the beginning it would have saved everyone time and been more efficient.
So I decided to put together a document with possible problems and to record the problems I hadn’t anticipated this time and send it to them in advance for the next collaboration.

The last problem was more my own. We were all communicating one-to-one in this group, rather than discussing and coming to a conclusion together as a group. Although I was aware of this problem, I did not raise it and chose to accept this method of communication. I also did not take the initiative to increase the frequency of communication, which led to us ending up with some misunderstandings of each other’s resources and projects.
I need to get over my submissive nature and take responsibility for communicating when I think I need to organise, rather than ignoring the problem by thinking that the project can continue even if it does.

During these two weeks：
I built a scene and made the grass
I wrote the blueprints for the sway and the self-glowing shimmering material
Dealt with weather changes
Wrote some particle emitters (as fireflies)

FOR GLASS

Frist step:Modelling the grass

Second step: write a master material to write the different properties of the grass (e.g. wind, wave, sway, colour, etc.)

Because we need a stylised scene, the effect of the grass is particularly important here. I intend to link the model after making the grass material and then use the elements to procedurally generate all the grass. So I started with a brief list of the requirements for the grass I needed.

1. To have wind and waves
2. Be luminous at night
3. It needs to have some flowers for decoration

So I used Brushify and the base terrain tool to simply create the terrain and the layers of terrain. Then started writing the mother material.

mask as uv,Tiling textures by division,The b constant controls the number of divisions to control the size of the tiled texture and the number of repetitions

Control the two colour endpoints in the gradient

Created a decal of the flower

Final result:

FOR STARS WAVE

About sunrise and sunset and weather changes

Weather animation using sky creator and sun intensity + altitude

fireflies

The first two weeks were basically spent identifying themes and discussing specific stories.
I was basically in charge of the script and I came up with four different ideas about the theme, the first one being a science fiction story where a person completely disappears in the universe, and there were different interpretations of that.
The second one was a visual one, with the idea of a cause-and-effect relationship through two unreal people in the same space but not intersecting lines of action, and I chose to refer to lpo barreta’s photography for the art style.
The third is a man’s different efforts to find his wife in a time loop, he wants to recreate the scene of their first meeting but no matter how hard he tries the world seems to be stopping him because when he goes back in time he has already destroyed the original cause and effect.
The fourth story has a number of small figures with a number of red threads representing karma intertwined with each other (from a Japanese legend). One of the figurines discovers these threads and tries to break free of them, as he realises that they are controlling him to some extent. But when he does break free he finds that no matter what he does he cannot influence anything in the world.
But none of these stories were very satisfying to me. They were either too difficult to show or difficult to craft.
So after a week I came up with a simpler story, because this collaboration wasn’t very long, so I wanted to keep everything simple. The story was a simple story of no reward without effort, where a little boy plants a star and with his hard work the star grows into a huge tree. I use it as a metaphor for people who work hard for their ideals and are eventually rewarded. I think it could have been done very beautifully, so in the end we chose this story