DP1 animation final version

Finally, I've done this animation. Last time I adjusted the time length of it. This time, with sound, I think it's great. Hehe...my progress of doing it is started from some discovering of 3dsmax software. As mentioned before, the explosion test. What's more, I tried to find out some ways of making the meteorite more realistic. It's a processing about the stone's surface and volume. Then I wanted the explosion become more realistic either, so I put a light into the point which it explodes. I also added a little fire effects on the rocket to make the little guy looks substantial. The next step was to put rocket man and the text into the scene and made the effects, movements together. I designed some actions for rocket man to make the scene more interesting and attractive. After these things, I found it a bit dark so I build a daylight system in front of them.

The remaining steps was put sound into it, adjusted the camera angle and rendered the scene. Of course, I repeated this step many times to ensure the whole animation will be great.

It is worth mentioning that the sound is composed of several pieces of music from the Nintendo Family Computer games. It's simple and clear, it won't make people think of too many complicated imaginations. That's why I think it is suitable for the animation. By the way, I used software to pick these sounds from "Super contra"（the whole music） "Doble Dragon" "Ice Climber". Hope it looks good. XD

slow version

I found the duration of frames is not enough. So I changed it but now it looks slower :(  I need to make more tests and then add sound into in.

My Ident （no sound）

Two weeks after the start of animation project. I decided to make the final modeling. In my Ident, there are two main parts, one is the texts like the name or topic of a book, the other one is the character in this book. In my points of view, character is very important because it can raise people's interests. So I wanna make it cute that can be noticed by people and be attractive.

I call this little cute guy “rocket man” because there is an afterburner on his back. Oh, I forgot to tell, at the start, a meteorite hit the ground then exploded. I think this shock beginning can be helpful.:)

some explosion test...

1 week after the first class of the 2nd project. I decided to find out some method to do several interesting effects using 3dsmax. Due to one of my older post was a video trailer about something in the universe, I came up with some objects in the space like the meteorite, asteroid , etc. Then I thought some will happen to these stone like explosions.:) So, I tried to look for some way to do it.

Above is my first test about using explosion effects.

poor layout

About the C.R.A.P lecture...=。=, I found some examples of the poor layout.

animation practice

  In this 2nd project , we will create an animation that holds audience interest in the interval between shows slot.

  It is like a start or an episode of a TV show. In the first class we learned how to use some basical techniques of 3dsmax. For example, simple modeling, morphology, shape shift.etc. Also, I learned how to add texts into animation and change the style of them. Hope it'll be helpful in the next session of this project. :)