Story Breakdown

Day and Night

I did my story breakdown over the Day and Night short by Pixar

Shatter Tutorial

I went through the shatter effect tutorial & playblasted it. I learned how to use the nCloths in more ways, and how to use a passive collider & what it does, as well as using the ncache

Dynamic Vortex

I messed up the first time somehow, but I think it's because the eyes/pants were separate from the alien and they all become individual nCloths, but I redid the dynamic vortex and finished it
Also I've had everything posted/turned in but I still have blank spaces for several grades

Dynamic Vortex

Started the video for dynamic vortex and I'm using the alien again. I created the nCloth(s), and added the vortex field, and that's basically all I really did

Crane

This is my crane, its only the playblast up to video 4 so this only has the sphere, not the other shapes to pick up, it also kind of jumps right before it gets to the sphere but I think it's just a mistake with the keyframes

Crane

Finished Video 3 and figured out how to fix the crane so that both the crane control and swivel were able to affect the crane and were parented at the same time. Started video 4 where I created the metal sphere and the metal plate and parented the sphere to both the crane and the plate and I'm about to start changing weights/animating the crane to swivel and move.

Crane

Finished the second crane video, where I added the ikHandle and then moved on to/finished video 3, where I started using the handle with constraints and joint limits but whenever I try to parent the ikHandle and the crane control locator to the swivel, the whole thing messes up, so I'm going to try to fix it tomorrow

Crane

Finished the first crane video and finished building the crane and putting it together, I'm currently in video 2 where I'm parenting the pins with the joints I created.

Crane

Started the crane videos, where I'm beginning to work with rigs and constraints, I started building the crane today.

Rigid & Soft Bodies

I went through the soft body video and here is my really messed up cube because I just messed around with the springs

Rigid & Soft Bodies

Video 10

Finished videos 10 and 11 of the candy dish tutorial, where I used rigid bodies, gravity field, and baking to make the candies slip around in the bowl, in a similar process to the first video with the sphere and the cube.

the playblast is right here but it won't show up sometimes on the blog post

Started on the soft body tutorial and began making the initial scene/models

Rigid and Soft Bodies

Rigid Bodies Video

Candy Dish Video 9

I watched the rigid body video and finished Video 9 for the candy dish tutorial which was basically the same concept as the rigid bodies video

Working w/Deformers

Started the new assignment where I'm learning how to use deformers to animate objects/shapes in Maya, I watched the entire first video and I'm currently half way through the second
UPDATE

Here is the deformer animation, and I used the squash to make the alien look kind of like it's breathing, but I should've made it more noticeable since it's kind of too subtle to be breathing