Coffee Scene Project, Update #4

    Over the past eight years, I've dedicated myself to the dream of launching my own coffee shop. In meticulous detail, I've crafted logos, devised equipment purchased, meticulously priced out every element, brainstormed innovative shop layouts, and conceptualized an array of specialty drinks featuring custom syrups. Drawing from a wealth of experience gained through employment at various coffee establishments and countless hours immersed in the coffee culture, I've cultivated a profound passion for both the craft and the unique atmospheres these spaces create. 

    Its fair to say its an obsession.

    Today I took a crack at cleaning up the rooftop area of the coffee shop scene. I started by adding a pretty simple pattern with some overhead lighting.

    You'll notice that the countertops look "thicker." This was to accommodate the animation of the barista in the last post. Finally, I felt I needed to add some more clutter to the empty spaces.

    This came in the form of shelves for merchandise, more coffee related decor, some plants, and another empty shelf that becomes more relevant with the addition of all the animations. Here is a relevant technical fact though, a GIF file only supports up to 256 individual colors. I'm well over that limit in this short animation. Attempting to export it as a GIF file led to a lot of strange image artifacting. Instead, I had to export 78 individual frames and convert them into a video file (MP4) through a website called Clideo, which, annoyingly, threw a watermark on the file and wanted to charge me $9 yearly. I'll have to research a better way of going about making videos out of these image exports. But for now, here's the video of all the animations added to the scene:

    

    Annoyingly, the video compression seems to have hit it pretty hard, and the frame time changed from 100 milliseconds to a whole 0.1 second each. This is why the animation seems to stutter. Oh well, it's a problem to solve later on, when I actually want to start recording high quality videos of all of these animations.

    Until then, stay warm and toasty.