Final Animation

Here is my final animation sequence. The particles react similar to the way Kevin Bacon interacts with the cars as he runs through the parking structure. The particles that fly off in the beginning of the sequence fade out where as the ones later on swarm around. The blue and red clouds are there for the symbolism between good and evil. The entire sequence is constructed around the elevation of how the characters and camera move through the scene as I discuss in my diagram.

i spit hot fire

Since I had a slight fascination with the fire effect in Maya I decided to post an animation of it. Here the lighting strikes and starts the fire. I could not figure out how to fade the lighting out so its not one continuous bolt, or how to have the fire radiate from the where the lighting strikes. I would have also liked to put some fireworks in here but for some reason that wasn't working either.

more tests

These two clips show a few more experiments I tried to some measure of success. The camera is the same as the previous clip but here there is a transparent object that the particle cloud is colliding with and breaking apart into smaller pieces. Here I decided that the original particles would terminate when they collided with the object.



This is a view from the top of the same animation. As you can see the particles split when they collide with the object in the center of the cloud flow. You may also notice that the particles that split off to the bottom portion of the animation react differently than those on the top. That is because I applied a gravity field on the lower portion of the screen.

nothing

Here is an orthographic view of the previous animation. Since my source movie and my diagram talk about he change in elevation as you move through the scene I would like my final animation to do the same. While the animation is running, beneath it I have the idea to view the entire animation sequence from various orthographic projections.

animation trial 1

Since I have decided to use Maya to animate my clip I needed to figure out how to use it. This first clip was making sure that I could render the clip for my final. Here I created a camera, gave it a path, threw in some particle movement along a plane and rendered. I wish it was really as easy as that sounded but it did take some time to figure out how to animate the camera.