2nd Blog Post for 3rd Quarter Laser show – Charles Kronschnabel

Since my last blog post not much has changed. Slowly, everyday I work a little farther into my laser show to perfect it. I am working slow so it will be as perfect as I can get it. However I am very limited with Beyond as there isn’t enough animations to use. It takes me a while to find a animation that even remotely correlates with the music while producing a story. I have been making progress though and the show is becoming much better than my previous show.

This shows the progress of where I am at in the show. Currently at 2 out of the 4 minute song. (About halfway done)

This show will be better because I am starting to fully understand Beyond and the way it works. Mr. Jacob Phillips has been a great help to show me the way the animations are positioned and the way to make them move how I would like. This different positioning and layout is making this show better than my last one, However I believe in my previous laser show it was a better story time line. But when utilizing Beyond, since it is so limited it’s Hit or Miss when designing a show with music if they have enough animations to finish the show while telling a story.

This shows the animation panel that I have to fill out in order to provide animations. The green long filled out section on the top is the Music. This shows how sometimes I need to overlap animations to provide a well worked-on Laser show.

One huge road block I have ran into is making the Laser Show tell a story. I know what I want for the show and animations to correlate with the lyrics to the music to preform a story, however I cannot find every animation to match with the music as I would want. One way I have found to ram through this roadblock is to just write out the lyrics it is saying and only write the important lyrics that kind of visualize a scene into your head.

In this picture, I am showing you how far I can zoom into the Animation Panel to look at the Music’s sound waves. This is very helpful to me since when I want the lyrics to be shown exactly when the music and animation preform them.

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