This week, I was mainly focusing on video editing. I worked on the bulk of our demo video and tried to make it high-production and professional with various 3D and text animations. It was quite a large amount of work (probably 30+ hours) to get this production quality but I think the result was quite good. We recorded all audio with Audacity and I used OBS Studio to create all the screen recordings, as well as Blender to create all the 3D animations. I used Premiere Pro to assemble everything and create cool text animations.
This is a screenshot of my Premiere Pro project.
This is a screenshot of the Blender project used to create the intro animation.
This is the Blender project for the intro shot with the sand blowing at the monkey. I used a more realistic and complex copper texture setup for the monkey and used Blender to simulate 15 million sand particles.
This is a screenshot of the Blender project used to recreate a realistic render of our original setup.
I tried to keep everything as close to the original as possible including our neoprene rubber over the plywood on the turntable, as well as setting up realistic textures for the camera and laser to look as close to the originals as possible.
Moving forward, I will be helping with the project report, the final deliverable for the Capstone class.