The brief of the project was to create 3 scare scenes for a haunted ride. My ideas and intentions were to do this, however it didn’t turn out exactly how I thought it would! As seen on my blog my mood board, storyboard and sketches included more of a grave- yard approach that entailed witches, bats, ghosts and haunted babies. However even though the ideas were there, putting it into practice was another story.
My design layout was much more basic than I first anticipated however I think my project is a lot better than my first animation project last term. This reflects that I have obviously made a lot of progress since then at least. And so I changed my original theme into a “warehouse for haunted props”. And so there is still a sense of my ride being gloomy dark and scary but Iv scattered different props around the ride to give it a warehouse feeling. For example there are random candles hanging above coffins.
Overall I am actually quite happy with my animation since I managed to use over fifteen different textures and managed them to apply them to different objects I had made. I managed to include a tree, stairs, a tomb candles, coffins and other props.
You cannot really see my cart in the ride however, I was happy with this and managed to modify it and change its shape to make it look more realistic and not quite so basic. I received quite a lot of help, which I needed. I managed also to put in different lighting with tints to give the ride a scary feel. Once I had rendered my animation it was one minute however when I came to export it in premier pro unfortunately it was only 50 seconds long which is odd. I could then not change it. I have learnt so much during these five weeks but unfortunately I haven’t had time to go back and add sound and make it more complex because it was last in the carousel for my projects.
I did experience problems with the soft ware and it crashed a lot of the time. When I came to render I don’t think it did it properly since my overall video is a little jumpy however I ran out of time to re render.
I have learnt it is so significant to produce a decent project not only to have great creative ideas otherwise it is useless. There are a lot of areas for improvement for example I would have liked to add sound techniques and sort out the slight jumpiness of the camera. However the jumpiness may fit in quite well since t is supposed to be scary! I would also add more complex props and learn how to make different objects however I managed to do the task in the end…just!
I do not think a new project would come out of this one since I really do not enjoy the software, I enjoyed coming up with the ideas, drawing and scenes but has completely solidified my choice next year to do moving image!
