Bullitt Car Chase

Animation Evaluation

To begin with I really enjoyed this project it was gratifying making my ideas come to life. I have had the idea of creating a car chase for quite some time but this is the first time I have been able to use it. Recreating the Bullitt Chase gave me a better idea about the pass of the sequence therefore made my storyboarding a lot easier. I did not use the entire chase as it last for roughly seven minutes people would get bored of the chase and also I have not kind amount of Lego as the scale that the chase is set is huge it seems to go from one end of San Francisco to the other.

I have found that I far prefer creating animation using the stop motion it requires as much if not more participants but is a far easier method I know think than that of using the digital system for instance 3ds max.

It has made me think twice about my ideas for my final year as before the Easter I was not enjoying the work I was creating and was quite bored and fed up, now I will definitely try and pursue this line of animation into my final year and use it hopefully in one of my music video’s.

To improve this project I would increase the frame rate from 12 to 25 this would make the movement and motion quiet a lot smoother. I really like the different camera positions I have used it give it a feel that I could have been following two real cars in a city.

I could have shot the chase going through my house instead of based in one room or maybe even shooting the film on actual roads, however this might look a little odd due to the size but until I try this I will not find out.

The audio track was a re edited version from the film with a lot of doctoring to get the crucial sounds to link up due to the tracks length and the length of the animation. On hindsight I could have tried Mickey mousing but I think it work well and sinked in though using the timeline I had wrote.

Thats all folks video should be on soon

30 second Product Advert

Well I don’t have a problem think of ideas, however when getting the idea to the final product; this is another story. My final piece still relies on the original idea but has gone about changes these changes were due to the feed back in the midway presentation. I decided to make the idea less complex, for instance I was original going to model the man in the scene to look very realistic this would have taken longer to model so I made the model a lot easier almost a morph type but not meant intentionally. I enjoy creating the models and rigging them with bones etc the scenes lighting the camera these elements I find simple in comparison to making the model move. I have a real problem with walking I tried 8 times to make the model using the Hoover look real this would be the element I need real work on to improve my animations.
The rest of the scene I feel is a lot better than my last project I down sized on lighting effect, I intentionally did not use wall therefore all focus is upon the props i.e. the rug sofa and two wardrobes.
I used five cameras in this animation which made it a lot easier to edit as they gave me to play with I also feel it makes the film more exciting when the film switches and doesn’t stay transfixed upon the man from a far off position.

All in all I feel I have learnt some valuable skills those being how to build a skeleton under my character which made controlling a lot easier also that less is more and when it came to it I think it worked.

Animation Video

Responding to jools comment on my post about my animation project i have tried to upload the file however on youtube the max file size limit is 100mb and my file is 171mb so i will try and edit it down but until then sorry for the disapointment.

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.

Channel 27

I am Currently taking Part in Making An identity For a Television Station Called Channel 27, this will be 30 seconds long and comprise of an animation. The Idea is Slightly Based on that of either BBC 2 or Channel 4. I have just done a power point presentation which i feel i got quite good feedback in from Andy and fellow students.
which gave me confidence to go in the direction i wanted. Since the
presentation i have created the scenery of the scene, edited the sound
i will use when making the robot move. And Have Also made Most of My
robot, However i have come across a snag in the software i am using so
i will have to get in touch with Andy to rectify the problem. Well i
will continue with the project and get get back to you with hopefully a
working copy of the ident project.

Animation

I will put up the animations i have done in class when i work out how to post them onto youtube.com but until then enjoy the final fantisy animation on the song stairway to heaven

Led Zepplin Stairway To Heaven

This is an animated version of the song which i thought was quite cool check it out




This video is from youtube.com