FINAL Submission

So here is the video outcome of my animation but first, I want to thank my tutor, Mr Angus Lee for teaching us Rhinoceros, 3DMax and even Adobe After Effects for this past 14 weeks. I could not have done this and even my Architecture Studio Projects without his guidance. Next, I want to thank my friends who helped and gave me ideas while I am doing my computer applications projects throughout this semester. Also, my sister, Soh Rou Yen who allowed me to use her song as the background music for my animation.

This is my final animation for Project 3, Pantai Kerachut Retreat. Enjoy ^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-3YSZOjHqE&feature=youtu.be

Week 14

So I used the same method that I showed in the previous WIP to create the pathways for every interior rooms. Then I started to test render my work. At first, I tried HDTV as the output size of the animation. The quality looks quite good but it can only be played by VLC media player.  I wanted my video to be played in Windows Media Player as I m using Windows Movie Maker to compile all my works. So I tried every video output size in 3D Max but in the end only NTSC DV can be played in Windows Media Player.

Because of time constraints, I can only render my animation in its lowest quaility. I even disabled the final gathering point so that it will be faster. If not it will take 35 hours to render a 20 sec animation. In a nutshell, I spent 48 hours to render the entire animation.

After rendering all the parts of the animation, I decided to use Windows Movie Maker to compile and edit my animation. Below are some screenshots of how I insert and edit my animations.

After importing and editing the animations, the final step was inserting a nice song that suits the animation. I chose a song that my sister composed, named Questions for my animation as it is a relaxing song and I feel that it gives a very pleasuring kind of feeling to the viewers. So this is how I finish my animation for this final project.

Week 12 & Week 13

For our final project, we are required to create a 90 sec animation video. Firstly, I planned out the plot of my animation. Basically, I divided my animation into 5 parts. The first part will show the exterior of the building and zooming in into the building. Then it will be the second part showing the living hall. The third part will show the dining hall. The forth part will be showing the bedroom and the last part will be zooming out to the exterior again and it ends. 

So I started it out by creating a line as the pathway for the camera. Then, I selected the points at the line and right clicked "smooth" and it became a smooth curve. 

Then, I selected the points at the line and right clicked "smooth" and it became a smooth curve.

Here is a picture of how it looks like after I clicked "smooth".

Later on, I adjusted the height of each points so that my camera will flow smoothly from up to down.

When I am done with that, I created a Target Camera. Then, I chose Motion > Position: Position XYZ > Path Constraint and clicked the curve that I created previously. Thus the camera flow smoothly with the pathway. Basically this is how I did for the first part of the video.