In Matt’s lesson today I spent more time today working on my animated short; I made more of the actual animation as well as experimenting with lights and cameras to get a professional looking render view for when my animation is complete. This will save me time when it comes to batch rendering, as my animation is already set up for a professional looking render.
So far in my animation I have my coffee cup jumping around the screen and then falling over some dominos causing a chain reaction with the dominos. I then plan on having the camera cut screen to the words “THE END” spelled out by fallen dominos (creating the illusion that the dominos created that word.
The link below is a playbast of my animation so far which highlights all of the feature I have mentioned in this post. It is not a render so the lighting can be seen in the video but doesn’t effect the video the same way it will when it is batch rendered. I have also created an infinite white background which also isn’t visible in the video but will be when it is batch rendered.
Personally, I like how my animation is going so far, I may not be very well experience at animation (or even honestly enjoy it that much, as I much prefer game design and 3D modelling), but I do think that my animation does have potential and with more work could be a fairly good looking final piece for the animated short project.
Bailey Brian 