Project Conclusion

Project Conclusion

I've had a really good time creating this piece of work. 3ds max work, the filming, and the editing was all a fun learning experience. I have learned a lot and now know how to do a lot of things that will help me in the future. 

Creating the flower in 3ds max was extremely hard as I couldn’t find any tutorial that explained it. I worked very hard to create the look of the flower growing and to make the flower look as real as possible with the textures and lighting, I worked on it until it looked just right. The falling leaf and petal turned out well, although I did have to use some keying to hide a petal falling at the back as it just didn’t look right.

The 3ds max rain took a while I followed three different tutorials until I finally had the look I wanted. As I have never created 3ds max rain before I was very happy with the final outcome, I rendered it from a few different angles to get a very realistic look. I did have the rain bouncing of the leaf in one render, I didn’t use this in my final edit as I just didn’t seem to fit anywhere.

Filming was fun. I found it very easy to get what I wanted, just had to wait for the right weather. I did a few takes so I could test out different looks.

Editing it all together in after effects and adobe premier was very hard, just trying to get a realistic look is where I struggle a little with fuzziness; I did manage to resolve this and was very happy with how it turned out.

I had to use two different editing packages to get the final look as both would work well with some bits and not work well with other bits. I would edit the footage in adobe premiere, adjust the brightness and add tinting to the footage, then edit the whole thing again in after effects so I could include flower and rain.

 I edited the rain and flower into the footage by using the luma key/blue screen and adjusting the appearance and using a feather key and tint to make it show up ok. The rain also needed tracking and brightening up a bit.

The music was downloaded of a copyright site. I do really like the music, as it fits with the footage.

                                                Advanced Animation & SFX

This is my Advanced Animation & SFX blog. Here I have been posting updates of my progression through my project including screenshots, photos and videos

Finished

This is my final video :) i hope you enjoy.

Growing Flower And Falling Rain

I'm so happy with the final edit of my animation and special effects project, the look and style have turned out just how i wanted. In my opinion all it needs now is some final finishing touches.

logo designs

My company name is purple jasmine

nearly done

I think my animation is looking very good at the moment and I’m very happy with the overall appearance. The entire animation looks just like I imagined and all renders very nicely together, I did really struggle to get rid of some fuzziness in the render, however I have now mange to fix that in this render. The flower grows nicely, sky fits well with the rain and the leaf and petal fall off the flower very nicely, it has all managed to be achieved well before the due date and now all I have to do is add some well fitted music.

edit video

I do like this render! however I can still see some fuzziness in the render and am not very happy with how i have edited it together. Still needs some work.

final flower grow

I love the textures and the colour of 3d this flower, looks far better then any of my other 3d flowers.

rain looking up

Rain edited as if you was looking up towards the sky. I am very happy with this render.

Sky footage edited with rain, i think they look very good together.Editing the two together was not easy!

 i used the luma key and colour correction to help make the rain rally stand out and then tracked the rain.

falling leaf and grey rain

Flower dropping petal and leaf  

                       

grey rain final rain

I'm really loving this rain so far, it looks better than any of my earlier edits.

      

I have edited the flower in to the footage then place the rain over the top.

                           More real looking rain. I used keying effects to get rid of a petal that fell at the back as   
                           it just didnt look right. I have had to edit the colour, so that flower didnt shake.

Leaf and rain

Rain landing on leaf.

growing flower with texture

I have been working on the textures for my flower and have managed to create a very nice petal texture and leaf texture. I created my different textures in photoshop and then used maps in 3ds max to make them look more like a realistic flower.

I have edited the flower into the real footage, to see how it looks together.

Flower and rain test

I am very pleased with this video, as I have managed to create very realistic rain and I love the added texture details I have added.

Flower and rain

Rain falls on leaf.

I didnt use this in the final edit as it didnt seem to fit anywhere.

rain looking up, needs more work on the render.

New edit of flower

The flowers entire apperance is looking alot better.

Rain

Here are some more rain samples.

I think its starting to look alot better!

petal change

Looking alot better than my first flower.

Sorry that this post is a bit late, due to a problem with the render. Should have been posted on 13.03.11 sorry for any inconvenience

Rain

3ds max Rain

My 3ds max rain still needs a lot of work! You can see it falling from the sky ok in the programme, just not very well in the render. I have to work on better renders for the rain and I need to make the rain bounce of the floor when it’s landing to make it look more realistic.  

Flower 3ds max.

Here are just a few posts on the start of my project and my progress so far.

At the moment I am working on the final design of my flower in 3ds max, following some tutorials and then adapting them with my knowledge of 3ds max, to make them look like the flower I want to design. My next job will be on how to break the flower up into the different stages and then rebuild the animation to make it appear that the flower is growing in a time lapse like sequence

Video test 3

Video test 2

Video test 1

Flower Research

I have been using these flowers to help me add detail to my 3ds max flower.

Idea

Idea and Inspiration

 

Here are some slides explaining the idea for my animation and special effects project. Some slides explain how my project fits into industry standards for animation and special effects. Hopefully I will be able to achieve what I have illustrated in my PowerPoint.

Basic Designs

These are a couple of original designs for my 3ds max flower and leaf. They both look ok in my opinion but need a look off extra work doing on the designs and textures. To simple for the look I am trying to achieve.