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The Apothecary Week 35 - SIE FilmCenter Screening
Dated: 07 May 2025 I didn't work on this project at all this week. The main goal was just getting ready for the screening and practicing...

Channing
May 7


The Apothecary Week 34 - Rendering & Relaxing
Dated: 01 May 2025 At this point in the project, we were only rendering and waiting for our frames to finish on the render farm. Due to...

Channing
Apr 30


The Apothecary Week 33 - Shot by Shot Cloth Simulations
Dated: 24 April 2025 This week has been entirely focused on cloth simulations for me. I have had the responsibility of exporting and...

Channing
Apr 23


The Apothecary Week 32 - Switching Gears to Blendshapes
Dated: 17 April 2025 This week we had a few hard conversations about the simulations we were using. We gave up on using fluid simulations...

Channing
Apr 16


The Apothecary Week 31 - Polishing Animation and Lighting
Dated: 10 April 2025 This week has been focused on polishing animation and starting to add lights to all of our shots. We are getting...

Channing
Apr 9


The Apothecary Week 30 - Fixing Old Lady Textures and Potential Bifrost Fluids
Dated: 03 April 2025 The week before this one was Spring break and I didn't get to work on this project as much as I wanted to. I picked...

Channing
Apr 3


The Apothecary Week 29 - Old Lady Cloth Simulations
Dated: 20 March 2025 In the past week, I have been working on creating the clothing for our Old Lady character. We wanted to give her a...

Channing
Mar 20


The Apothecary Week 28 - Render Testing and Wrangler
Dated: 13 March 2025 In the past week, I have been working on finalizing the cameras for our film. We still have a big chunk so the film...

Channing
Mar 13


The Apothecary Week 27 - Cloth Simulation Madness
Dated: 06 March 2025 In the past week, I have been creating the cloth simulations and troubleshooting all of the weird bugs and funny...

Channing
Mar 6


The Apothecary Week 26 - Basil's Dress Texture Prep
Dated: 27 February 2025 In the past week, I have been working on exporting the UVs for Basil's Dress. As the dress is exported from...

Channing
Feb 27


The Apothecary Week 25 - Cameras Cameras Cameras
Dated: 13 February 2025 In the past week, I have been working on setting up the cameras for our shots. We just needed to revise some of...

Channing
Feb 13


The Apothecary Week 24 - Old Lady & Shopping Counter Rigs
Dated: 05 February 2025 In the past week, I have been working on finishing the rig for the old lady so the my team can start blocking out...

Channing
Feb 4


The Apothecary Week 23 - Finalized the Basil Rig
Dated: 30 January 2025 Over the past week from the last blog post, I have just been working on finishing Basil's rig as we have had weird...

Channing
Jan 30


The Apothecary Week 22 - First Blog Post of the New Year!
Dated: 23 January 2025 The last time I wrote down anything was in 2024 and I am so excited for the opportunities and events for 2025....

Channing
Jan 23


The Apothecary Week 21 - Character Rig & Test Animation
Dated: 06 December 2024 Last week was Thanksgiving break and it gave my a chance to catch up in some of my other non-major related...

Channing
Dec 7, 2024


The Apothecary Week 20 - Advanced Skeleton is amazing!
Dated: 15 November 2024 I recently updated to the newest version of Advanced Skeleton and I have been missing out on so much. The tool is...

Channing
Nov 15, 2024


The Apothecary Week 19 - Rigging & Model Changes
Dated: 8 November 2024 This is a super short blog post as I haven't made much progress on our short film. I mostly just had Minh updating...

Channing
Nov 15, 2024


The 2024 Lightbox Expo - My Experience and Summary of the Trip
Dated: 28 October 2024 I recently got back home in Denver from my visit to Pasadena for the 2024 Lightbox Expo. The expo started on...

Channing
Oct 28, 2024


The Apothecary Week 18 - The Week Following the Storm
Dated: 11 October 2024 This is the week after the 24 Hour Animation Challenge ended and there is still some tension and emotion coming...

Channing
Oct 11, 2024


The Apothecary Week 17 - 24 Hour Challenge Interruption
Dated: 4 October 2024 This week doesn't have much of an update to it as I have mainly been focused on the 24 Hour Challenge hosted by...

Channing
Oct 11, 2024
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