Personal Aims

Within the YMCA project i have looked at new and different areas to concentrate on. Previously i have only done very basic modelling, mapping and animation and this semester i plan to extend my knowledge by quite a degree.

First of all i am planning on learning a lot more about character animation. My first real encounter with this was early on in this project when i came up with the character of the letter 'M' which i boned and skinned and then animated. The new character that we will be using is a lot more complicated and i look forward to learning how to animate it.

Secondly i plan to create some nice lighting effects for example flickering lights and moving lights. Again i have already had a go at this and will add the video with this post. I plan on creating a more detailed and more complicated lighting scene in the next couple of weeks.

Thirdly my models this semester are a lot more complex and rather then going through the problems i had last year and making the most complex objects with splines i will be using solid objects and manipulating their vertices's to create my objects. This can already be seen is early posts with my drum kit and guitar.

I have set myself some deadlines for my work to try and keep myself up to date as i don't want to fall behind and let the group down.

I plan to have all the models made by 9Th November. I don't have many left to go but they are also slightly complex. I plan to use the whole weekend for nothing but this animation.

After these are made i plan to create my lighting with will be done between the 9Th and 16Th November. I can see this being a large challenge but i have other things to concentrate on like character animation so this needs to be done ASAP. If there is time left after everything else i will come back and edit this if I'm not happy with it.

Last of all within max i plan to do my animations. I will be giving myself slightly longer for this and will have between the 16Th and the 30Th of November to complete this. There are slightly complex animations happening with using things like the reactor tool.

After all the above is completed i will then export my movie in a previously agreed format and take it into premiere pro to add to the other animations. It will also be here that i will add sound to my scene. I was thinking about having a band playing my instruments along to a sample of music but i will have to wait and see how complicated the animation is going to be to create. I have a feeling that this will be too much work however and i wont get it done in time.