A lot of technical issues had arisen this time.
Created the maya scene for the poster by cutting out and moving elements from the dorm room 3D space. With a design for the poster already achieved in weeks prior, I tackled it first by thinking that it would be easy to lay out the paper balls through a simulation using Maya. Suffice to say, whether it be through MASH or Maya’s cloth simulations (with gravity) and legacy passive and active Rigid Bodies, these options didn’t work, at least not within a considerable amount of time. So I had to do it in one of the less appealing ways for me, which is to recreate the staging of the space manually. Thankfully I was satisfied with the end result so far.
Problems with storage (due to many files, and the amount of space taken by individual softwares).
Laptop is inefficient for any sort of render attempted to be done with lighting in premiere pro (compared to the swift efficiency in uni computers).
Work-arounds out of searching for and using copyright-free/royalty-free images with unnecessary hassle. I made use of taking photo of a corkboard mat and playing around with its colouring in one of my drawing softwares and layer blending options and gradients (FireAlpaca). I also took a photo of a creased blank paper I had lying around my room, and using it with the “overlay” layer option and lowered opacity. Makes for a pretty convincing ‘png’ of paper creases. I think this might be my secret approach when looking for similar results in the future.
Unfamiliarity with photoshop and illustrator. And problems with opening these softwares due to said storage (scratch disk).
I managed to ask my friend to take a photo of the pins in one of the common rooms that we use in uni. These pins are one of the designs usually associated with them and office stationery.
While I managed to accomplish this, I can’t help but feel depressed at how it took most of the day to accomplish, not to mention that I haven’t been able to do the lighting for it to make it look more convincing. Granted that in the grand scheme of things, only taking a day to do this much across different softwares and approaches as someone still relatively inexperienced in a completed pipeline (of a poster), I would say I am impressed. Such a feeling is dampened when I have to consider the remaining time left for other work to be done, and how my current pace of work goes; I can’t feel but feel exhausted and a nit scared by the situation and, in case of the worst, failure. I know that creating any sort of work, even when it’s not up to certain levels of quality, are fine and in fact something I should learn to embrace in. This doesn’t mean that I don’t create something good; in fact it is the opposite. While in the context of a work submitted to be evaluated, yes it is worrying when the result falls short and even lower past my expectations, in my personal efforts I am still satisfied looking at what I have achieved so far.
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