In project two, the renderings I did showcases the manipulating light and shadow and its relation to the building. For project 3, animation, I plan to bring forward this concept, to further emphasize the light and shadow quality of Langen Foundation.
Langen Foundation functions as an art gallery. This is what inspired me to create my storyline :
Langen Foundation is portrayed as a painting in an art gallery. In the morning, you enter the painting and you're greeted by the lively light and shadow happening within the building. Then as night falls, you exit the building and finally exit the painting.
To start animation, first thing I did was to turn on AutoKey before I make any adjustments. The opening scene consist of only 4 simple objects : The wall, a plane to map the picture which I photoshop-ed, a camera and a free light.
The default 100 frames is changed to 350 frames because I wanted to create slow and steady cameras.
Upon entering the building I only moved two objects which are the camera and the sun. After fixing the camera position, the sun is moved, but not too much, so that the light and shadow will move at the same pace as the camera.
Still test renderings are conducted at the front, middle and end part of the animation, to see whether the light is cast correctly, and whether the exposure settings are suitable. Objects that cannot be seen are deleted to increase the rendering speed.
After everything is done, these settings are used, and what's left was to wait for it to render.
Image size : 640x480
Image precision : Medium
Soft shadow precision : Medium
Final Gather : Draft
Reuse final gather : uncheck
Skipped fg frames : none
The AVI format videos are then put into Windows Movie Maker for further editing.
The AVI format videos are then put into Windows Movie Maker for further editing.
The videos are arranged accordingly from exterior to interior, from main block to second block. To further enhance the melodious and dramatic effect of the moving light and shadow, and also to suit the whole art gallery ambience, a classical music piece is selected as background music, and that is Mozart's Violin Concerto No.5 in A. Some of the videos are trimmed or speed up to match the flow of the music, creating greater visual impact.
Basically that's about it, I tried my best so I hope you guys enjoy the video, my very first 3d max animation :')
Basically that's about it, I tried my best so I hope you guys enjoy the video, my very first 3d max animation :')
