Reflection

Overall, we enjoyed working together and collaborating. We learned a great deal in terms of the programs used to make these assignments. Much time was spent learning new programs, especially Maya. In using Maya, we learned how to place and manipulate objects so as to generate a forced perception illusion. We also learned how to rig character models with a skeleton to pose them and learned how to light and render the scene.

We did think that the scene was a little bare, however, and if redone we'd probably add a background to the piece. We would add walls in the background with words implying the separations of the two teams and add more factors to the visuals.

In using MuseScore and Audacity, this project was the first time that I used both. I was able to write music and then create a more fitting environment, which lessened the digital quality of the automated sounds in MuseScore.

We also found it difficult to shorten it to 5 seconds. Our initially idea would have taken longer than five seconds, so we chose a simpler idea. Then after that, getting the music down to about 5 seconds was difficult especially while trying to add two different parts (before and after reveal). 

Somethings we would do differently include having it loop better. The audio loops seamlessly on the Audacity and Premiere Pro programs. However, vine automatically blends the two together. With a lead-in note at the end of the song, it created a less-than-seamless loop. We would in the future work more closely between Audacity, Premiere Pro, and Vine, to loop the audio seamlessly.