The Idea

Originally I had wanted to do a rube goldberg style machine which would eventually trigger a set of dominos arranged in the shape of the Cosc 3P98 horse. Part of the inspiration for this was one of the final scenes in V for Vendetta in which V sets off his logo done in dominos.

The thought behind this was that I could use the physics system in 3ds to take care of all the "animation" for me leaving me with the task of building, lighting, texturing, and timing the camera movements. However in early tests with the advanced lighting system I found that piece movement caused erratic lighting and a shimmering effect to occur.

I then set about thinking of some new ideas that I could pull of in the limited time I had to work in. Eventually I came up with the idea of doing a gallery / museum in which I would be doing a flythrough. I proposed this idea to Professor Ross and he said it was a good idea. With that being taken care of I set about my next task of figuring out what should go in the building.