Tuesday 24 April 2012

Animation Progress and theory of flying machine movement

That thatb the setting is done, I can focus on the movement of the biped and the flying machine within the animation. From the design of the flying machine, it would seem that the biped would have to move in a certain  way for the flying machine to move its wings. From looking at the design, it would like the biped would have to pull his arms and legs in when it wants the flying machine wings to go down and then have its body flat out if it wants to get the wings to go up. This certain way of movement will be interesting to see and entertaining when it flys the flying machine in the wrong angle.

Here is a screenshot of working on the animation of the biped grabbing one of the handles on the flying machine.

Tuesday 17 April 2012

Process with work

From working with the biped to sorting out the lighting for the scene to animating the first bird, the scene is coming along smoothly. The biped will need to be placed as if holding the flying machine before going to animating it. The bird has a path and is animating, all i have to do is to clone the bird and the path. I created a path using the line tool, connecting the bird was simple enough. With the planes that surround the scene, I used the leaf tutorial once more so that the buildings remained, allowing the sun to be seen setting in the distance. This is what this look like at the moment....

Work in Process: Lighting

As the scene is being set up, I wanted to try and create a sunset for the animation. This is what I have gotten so far following the daylight tutorial.

I currently like the lighting in the thrid picture but I want to try and make it look more reddish like a sunset is, but if I can get that then this will have to do as well as the sun is now in the right place.