Week 10 - Final

With my final animations complete and fully rendered It was time to send them over to Krzysztof to combine them with his and Joe's animations in Adobe After Effects. After Effects is a motion graphics software used for video editing in the post production process in film making and allows the user to create animations and effects. This would be the software Krzysztof would be using to combine all our animations together, edit them, add effects and finally render as a whole package.

These below were the final renders I sent over to Krzysztof using the render process I talked about in the last post.

Idle Animation

Walk Animation

Sword Animation

Ninja Close up Animation

Crouch Animation

Crouch_02 (Different Camera Shot) Animation

I was happy with the final forms of my animations and however I felt there could have been more that I could of really added and maybe done a tiny bit differently. Looking back at the planning process from earlier in the term all of my animations played out how exactly or not far off how I wanted them to look and be presented. Still I can never be 100% happy with the work and when I keep looking back at those final renders I still see parts and points that I wouldn't mind changing. However these are not dramatic and too extreme and probably hardly noticeable.They just stand out to me, due to me working on and watching these animations over and over again for the past term. Looking back from my animations from the first year I feel the progress in my animation has come along well and I saw this in every new animation I worked on. At the start I was nervous to get back into animation again due to it being such a long time since I last did any form of animation on the course. However once I got the ball rolling with the first animation which was the idle animation I was getting the hang of the new rig and getting some form of movement with the character.

So with that to one side, all of our animation was edited and the final render done in After Effects was complete. Below is the final animation render.

          

All of the animation I worked on plays at the start of the video. I have to say I was really impressed with what Krzysztof did with the added light change and different camera positioning I really like who well they look and play out. One other thing that I'm happy with is that even though we were all working on our own animations and for the most part animating them alone, they all relate and work really well with one another. The basic plan for our our group at the start of the term was to have my animations of the ninja play out in the style of a quick time event and Krzysztof and Joe's would be presented and laid out as if a player was controlling the ninja character (in game footage). From my point of view I believe that our animations do play out how we wanted them to.

Finally getting to see all your work over the past term presented in a video that lasts 55 seconds is just crazy.