Friday 6 May 2011

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

Wednesday 4 May 2011

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.