COSC 3P98 Animation Project:


Exibition Room Animation (AVI, 15.5MB)

by WeiQuiang Li and Luan Hai 


Introduction

This product presented a scene of inside room walking. The whole process included animations as follows: 
camera movement, multi-element movement and text color changes.  A Chinese ancient music was attached to 
the animation. The reason of chosing an inside room scene as animating enviorenment is because of its 
typical 3D (W x L x H) dimensional effect as well as the true site effect.

Tools

The following tools have been hired for animation generation.
* 3D studio Max 3.0
  For modeling, animating and rendering
* CD media editor
  For music recording, cutting, and combining
* Quide time player
  For animation viewing

Models

Modeling is quite time consuming. Refer to the following examples for a brief descrition

1.Ceiling
 
  "Colone" methord was used when creating recesses in the roof panel, both for light well and for 
  spot light holes.




2.Curve-shape wall

  The curve-shape wall plate was generated simply by drawing closed curve lines and then extruding
  the outline into geometries.




3.Floor

  "Array" command was applied when creating floor panel blocks. This command is faster and more
  accurate when generating large amount of same shape elements.




4.Sofa

  Safa sample was found in model lab and was placed in scene by "import" command as a max file.




5.Text

  Text sample can be created by simply chosing "text" tab in the "shape" option, and then "Extrude"
  command could be used to adjust text thickness.




Animation

Few charisctoristics of this animation:

1.Camera

  Free-camera was chosen to suit the moving walk effects.

2.Text movements and color changes

  Several texts were arranged to animate at the same moment, and "Scale" command was also applied
  to the texts during animation. 
 
All these combinations made the animation more active. 
Text were defined to different color at different frame phase so as to have a text color changing
effect as the animation plays.

Music

The backgroud music came from one of our favourate music CD, we edit it by using CD Media Editor.
The finished segment of music was mixed with animation by activing "sound" option in "Rendering"
menu column.

Conclusion

In order ot complete this short animation, lots of reference-book readings, modelings and render
practicings needed to be done. Prior to the final rendering, the whole process of creation is
hard but interesting. We learn a lot from it.



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