I have finished....

The rendering worked, although from the wrong camera angle so I did the camera bit again and tried that. It looked ok, be it a little slow and boring. Plus having a black background sorta made it look like it was in space and there were these random satellites or something….so I changed the background to white and rendered again.

The next step was to add sound effects, a soundtrack and edit the whole thing using final cut. I found some sound effects online, and added text at the start and changed the speed of a couple of bits of footage, I added several effects including a tint, ripple and saturation. I faded certain bits in and out having it fade to white each time till the end.



I thought that “banana co” by Radiohead would be an appropriate soundtrack and appropriately named also... I wanted to use one of the less popular tracks, and have something that fitted the overall feel of the animation.

I’m happy that I managed to get the project done in time and have learned a lot about 3d max, although I haven’t really achieved what I set out to do, given my current knowledge of 3d max I think that I could get a better result if I were to start over again…as I would start with the smallest object (say a worm) then add more and more objects to it. Then texture the objects last of all.

During this project the skils I have obtained are (but not limited to) ; using the main interface of 3d studio max, how to use standard primitives and compound objects, how to loft objects and edit them using edit mesh feature, I’ve learned how to optimize objects and import and export them. Used the edit polly feature and “cap” to repair gaps. Add key frames, and animate objects. Alter the objects form; I have learned how to split objects using cut and weld methods, collapse areas, smooth objects and chamfer sides. How to alter the background; change the colour and texture of objects. Add cameras that can follow a line and have a set target (the banana). Use different views and render my work whilst saving to different formats.

heres a screen shot of the final piece:



My Resources:


World Wide Web

http://www.k10k.net/

http://www.rushes.co.uk/

http://www.3dtotal.com/

http://www.rushes.co.uk/

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/3DS-MAX/1



Films


Toy Story (1996) John A Lasseter

A Bugs Life (1998) John A Lasseter

Finding Nemo (2003) Andrew Stanton

Bladerunner (1982) Ridley Scott

Pi (1998) Darren Aronofsky

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)


Television:

Walking with dinosaurs


Books:

3D STUDIO MAX 3 FUNDAMENTALS, Micheal Todd Peterson, 1999