Final Animation Part 4

After rendering the animation putting the scenes together the final animation is now complete. I am happy with what the final out come look like as it was similar to the idea I had when I first made my story board in weeks 3 and 4.

Overall I am happy with the quality of the animation. However I am disappointed not to have included more sound in the piece as that is what I wanted to achieve from the outset. This couldn't be achieved however with difficulties in the rendering making me concentrate on that more the the added effects to the animation. Also the sound I included in the piece didn't come out in the finished render, which was disappointing. the scene where there is a close up of R2D2 spinning his head would have been better if I had been able to include the sound effects of him panicking to go with it. That was meant to be a funny scene but without the sound it doesn't make much impact.

I am happy with the range of techniques I used, with the change of cameras to give the viewer more information like with the close up of the intecepter to emphasis the X-Wing spotting it. Also the quick change of camera in the same scene helps with the illusion of action in the animation.

I am happy with the animation itself also. Using a range of techniques from key frames in the final scene to motion paths used throughout the scene to connecting the ships to react to each other based on movements.

I think the lighting in the animation could have been better. This however was tricky to achieve as I had differing results on the same project by using the mac and windows on the same project. This meant the colour of the lights changed when switching computers and due to my home pc being a mac this was a problem I couldn't avoid.

Again a similar problem occurred with the environment sphere. The picture placed on it could transfer between computers and crashed the pc a couple of times. This was rectified in the rendering process as I had to change the sphere each render to get the effect I wanted.

Favourite scene: Close up on intecpeter

Had I had more time and a windows PC at home I think I could have made a better final product then I have. However that said I am still happy with the final product as I believe there are alot of good ideas in there that have come out really well and with a little touch up here and there this would have been exactly as I wanted when I set out to make it in week 6.

Lazer beams could have been in shot longer 

(I couldn't upload any videos to the blog as they all exceed the 100MB limit)