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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 8


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
May 1


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 24


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 17


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 10


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 14


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 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


The Apothecary Week 16 - Pre-Layout and Set Dressing
Dated: 27 September 2024 This week has been filled with taking the hard work that our group has been producing and combining it into our...

Channing
Sep 27, 2024
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