Images in motion

This is just a quick practical that Richard gave us to do. We had to view a person walking in a unique way, and draw it in stick-man format to show how we perceived it.

Original Storyboard and New Edited Storyboard

Using the reactor plug-in

The video here shows represents a bowling ball hitting the pins. I was able to create the animation by using a plug-in known as Reactor. I firstly created a Rigid Body Collection. This contained all of the models within the scene. Once i did this i was able to use the reactor. Inside the reactor properties section i changed about with the collision tolerance, mass, friction and elasticity of the models. Using trial and error i was able to create an effective animation. In order to make the ball start moving towards the pins, i made a short animation of about 5 frames of the ball moving forwards. Then once this was made i went into the preview and animation area and started the animation from frame 2, this then gives the ball that energy it needs to start moving towards the pins.

Animation using Cameras

In our most recent lesson we looked into animation using cameras. We built a small city-like model and created a line that the camera would follow along giving the user a walkthrough effect of the area.

First attempt at animation

This is a short video clip of a ball being hit down onto a table and up against a wall and back again. I admit it is far from amazing, but it is a starting point for animation :)
I managed to use the curve editor in order to give the ball a realistic bounce with the aid of gravity.

Image References for Modelling and Animation Ideas