One thing however I have done this week is go over my original storyboards from earlier in the term. I felt when looking back on my blog that the storyboards were one thing I could easily improve by making them look a lot more presentable. These storyboards follow how my animations are at now, compared to the previous storyboards I had were slightly different to how all my part of the show reel plays out.
When it came to rendering the animation instead of just rendering it as a AVI. like I had been doing for past renders of the my animations in my blog, I rendered the animations as JPEGs. This meant each key frame would be perfectly rendered in quality meaning nothing gets compressed like if you were to render the animation as a AVI. Other things I changed in the render settings before batch rendering the animation was making sure the quality was at HD 1080 and that Motion Blur was turned on and set at 2D.
Once I was happy with all the settings and they matched up with how Krzysztof and Joe had theirs set then I clicked batch render. Once the animation was rendered fully, it was broken up into the correct amount of key frames. for example my walk cycle was 96 frames long so 96 frames were individually rendered out. here's a quick example below.
Now that I had all my animation rendered I would need to now convert it into a video. For this I used Windows Movie Maker and dragged all 96 frames fro the walk cycle in the open space in movie maker. all that was left to do was adjust the duration settings under the Edit tab and set it from 7 seconds to 0.04. This would then adjust the playback speed to it's correct state for my animation. Once I was happy I did this for all my other animations and saved them all as 1080p in quality. When I was finished I sent them other to Krzysztof to add to his and Joe's animations s that they could be rendered together.
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