Friday, June 1, 2007 

     On my second week in the motion capture lab at CMU we had a man, Alex, fly in from Boston to capture motions for a police training video. He hired an actress from the area, and Justin, to be captured. They preformed a variety of motions involving guns and being tazed to the ground. It was two long days of capturing over 200 motions. Once he left we were set to clean all the data, and put it into Maya. With the four members in the motion capture lab working on it, we should be able to complete it in about three weeks.
     Plus a new student arrived this week. AJ is a CMU student who is also in the program with Jessica as her mentor. She will be working in the motion capture lab with us, and will help with the cleaning of the data, along with other projects of her own.
     I met with Xinguo on Wednesday, to discuss his hopes about the nCloth research. He is trying to have a better understanding of the software, and be able to replicate any kind of material by altering the parameters set by Maya8.5. For the remainder of the week I finished the nCloth tutorials, and played around the the parameters and how they altered the characteristics of the cloth.
     I met with Jim, an art professor here at CMU, early in the week. He showed me the project that he is working on, and the problems that have arisen when using cloth in the past. He would like me to be able to construct a sheer yellow dress for on of his characters in his animation using nCloth in Maya8.5. We would then convert it into Maya8.0, where he is finishing the rest of the animation.