I started my side project early on into the class, the side project I decided to do was a laser show that would most likely be around 2-5 minutes. I quickly found out what software I needed in order to make a laser show it being BEYOND 3.0, once I got onto a computer with BEYOND I started messing around to find out the different options, how to use them, and other features.
Once I decided on the music track I would be using I started on the atmospheric effects, these atmospheric effects would be RGB and react to the music, these atmospheric effects ended up coming out really good.
After I felt I did the best I could do on the atmospheric effects I started work on the secondary effects, I decided to make the secondary effects very similar to the atmospheric effects but make it more complicated, I spent just as long on the secondary effects as the atmospheric due to learning how to do the things during making the atmospheric effects.
Once I finished all the other effects I got to work on my main effects, well making my main effects I discovered a feature that I quickly put to use, this feature allowed me to put the effects onto different laser projectors, using this I made another secondary effect of a spinning rainbow ninja star that went all around the planetarium, in this process I also made an effect that “overloaded” the laser projectors because it was way too many lines at once. My main effect consisted of an animation that took me a while to figure out how to do, in this animation a blue circle with a top hat rotated and change into an orange circle with a canon that then fired it, I made a few other effects like a “building” animation for the main projector, however, I never got a chance to fully complete this laser animation so that is all that happened with my side project.
