Quick Evaluation of Animation

Evaluating my animation is quite difficult, well I find evaluating anything difficult, especially trying not to be biased.

I found the modelling easy, due to having to remake it three times due to my copy of 3ds max playing silly buggers. However, managed to rectify by reinstalling.

The Lights and the camera’s were quite straight forward, however, making the cameras move but to keep looking at a fixed point until I realised I could use a target camera. The most difficult bit was animating the movement of the character. I could have spent so much more time perfecting his movements. I found adding materials quite difficult to make them look good. I had to alter a lot of them In Photoshop but the wall paper still did not work as well as how I would have liked. The Bitmap on the TV was quite hard to work with to get the music in sink with the guy dancing in time. The easiest bit was working out the sequence in premier and fitting the animations from the different cameras and the use of the audio track’s I had.

I conclusion I found this project quite simple once I had my idea, I decided not to make it to complex so as to be able to focus on newer skills that I had learnt since the beginning of term; i.e. the lighting was interesting especially for the Television, which had a spot light behind it which gave the television a glow to make it a little more realistic. Then when I added the bitmap to the surface of the chamfer box I put its illumination up full which gets it giving out enough light to be seen. For either camera around the room. I think I could spend more time perfecting the animation but I would not greatly affect the content portrayed. I feel I mad the end section to fast as I was running out of time I shot the realisation scene very quickly and could have used maybe another 2 seconds to make it slightly more clear. But all in all I am quite impressed with my short film. And look forward to doing more in the future.