Animation Test

Moving on with animation, wanted to show a friend who could potentially compose some music to go alongside.

Here's a sneak peak.

100 Words

  After experimenting with animation for hours, I finally managed to animate 4 entities from a single point to create a bigger object. This is exciting as I want my model to unfold from a single object and expand!

  I want my film to be dark and lit by selective lights that will enhance my object by contrasting the light and darks that should create intriguing patterns – as seen from interim images. I haven’t thought too much about music yet, but I want it to be eerie and full of suspense.

Crazy Flowgraphs!

 

 I started my flowgraph and animation again, this time knowing what I was doing. This time round, everything had to be precise - not just looking right. 

This image here shows 8 entitys and 4 tag points - however when you start only 1 is visible.

  

I tried to be neat and tidy with my flow graphs.
One drop down menu shows the different entitys I hide and the second shows the different movements.

 

6 various flowgraphs later and bam! This contraption unfolds.

Even my dude was in disbelief and took his binoculas off to see.

- Next step, multiply - a lot.

Rotate Around A Tag Point

After hours of trying to figure out how to rotate around a point, success!!

First you must bring in a tag point from the roll-up menu under AI.
Then link your entity with the tag point (in this order.)

This makes your object connected to the tag point.

To move the object, you must animate the tag point!

Here's my flow-graph, rotating around 1 point :)

Initial Animation

Adding a spawnpoint!

 Adding a key to remove weapons and HUD!

 Start of the movement - 6 entitys and a light

 End point

The flow graph proof :P

3 Images For Presentation

Three very different views from different aspects of my model(s).
I want to make my movie, or space, visually frightening with a sort of claustrophobic feel. Or even a never ending - no escape feel. I played around with the blue and orange lights - I love these colours against the dark background and the glow they create.

I'm liking where this is heading!!

Attempted some more views today! I'm really liking some of them... Now I have to choose 3 :\

 

  

 

3 Various views of a cool light pattern created

 2 views playing with a blue/orange light contrast

Another view - playing with depth

D:

Goddamn, lost alot of my cryengine files on my USB - no idea why.
Lost one folder of terrain and mapping and one folder with my screenshots :(

Will have to redo some more damnit!

Cry Engine Screenshots

First week in and already had some difficulties with work disappearing.

But here is some screenshots, playing around in Cry Engine.

Getting my model into Cry Engine from Sketch Up.

 

Playing around with various scale and lighting effects.

 

Finding interesting views - relates back to initial drawing.

 

Adding water, just to see the effect it makes with light and reflection.

Sketch Up Developments

 

Initially, I reworked various shapes of my final to recreate the depth and perspective feel while still maintaining the initial design principle; symmetry. I felt that this outcome was too similiar to that of project 1.

 

 Again, I took a shape from my final to create that depth feeling - except this time I rotated the shapes from different view points to create something far more interesting. After repeating the model and relfecting parts I began to develop a model that is visually more appealing.

Assignment 2 : Initial Sketches

 

My favourite final is symmetry and I have chosen to develop this furthar for project 2. The view looks down towards an endless bottom, which creates an almost claustrophobic feel - something I will look to animate in cry engine - perhaps something like walls or surroundings moving in towards a centre point, creating an entrappment.