Finishing the animation

When I started the animation project I believed it would require all the time I had at my disposal. The fact of the matter is that I had nearly completed my project within a few weeks – giving me a lot of spare time.

I have done a lot of tuning and adjusting to the animation to get it to the point where I can see myself satisfied with the work I have done. It is almost at that point now, it just needs minor adjustments.

Looking at the animation I have created, I can not help but wish that I had chosen a different idea for the project. It is very technical and straight forward, suiting a news intro – but to be honest it did not pose much of a challenge.

I believe part of the thought behind the assignment was to give me a challenge, something that I would learn from. As mention there were not many issues with the creation of this animation, there were some minor areas that needed more thought than I had at first thought – but these were fixable with some thought.

Testing different ideas

After I had nearly completed the assignment I decided to look at other areas of 3D which I wanted to learn more about. The one that interest me the most is particles, all the things you can do with the system is impressive!

I made a few different scenes with the use of particles, the one I liked the most was a scene where the particles flew around – and combined into a sword at the end before blowing away with the wind again.

I have looked at several good plugins that can be used to create magnificent particle effects – such as MassFX and FumeFX but they are too expensive for me to purchase at this time, maybe later. I would also have liked to look at Krakatoa (volumetric particle rendering).