Finished!!!

After a very long weekend I am finally finished!!! I’ve found the module fun, but hard work and very frustrating. I still struggle to produce realistic materials for my scene, this is the frustration bit!! Adding sound to the animation made a lot of difference, this is the first time I have used Adobe Premiere Pro. and although I only used its basic tools I can see it being a very handy programme, it seemed to bring my animation to life!

I did have a lot of bright ideas at the beginning of the module, but realistically I didn’t have enough time to create them all, well not even half!!! I must of forgotten how time consuming max can be!

I have definitely learnt a lot more on 3d max this time round. I found reactor good fun and got some good results by using it. My boat within the final scene uses a wave reactor to produce the effect. Also garment maker and cloth modifiers are handy, the flag in my opening scene uses these tools and I am pleased with the results I got here. I found bipeds a little tricky, but was able to get the results i needed, shame i didn't have enough time to animate my man though!!

I am happy with the modelling and animation side of things, but I do think that my lighting and materials let me down. Overall, with the sound, I am pleased with what I have ended up with!! Here’s a few still frames from the scene.