Reece Rackley ND Games Blog: March 2012

Monday, 26 March 2012

Animation

Final Animation

Storyboard

My animation Is a triple jumper and idea is the person beings to run and then jumps into three continuious jumps and then one big final jump. As the person does the final jump their legs and arms lean up to gain as much air time as possible before landing, after they have landed the person beings to nod and clap and throw their hands up into the air. When animating the person running i had to move the arms one by one to make it look like the person is putting in the effort to run at a high speed using a biped you can set the steps automatically and the character is already boned so it makes it easier to move each limb. After watching alot of videos of triple jumpers i saw that they skip the last three jumps to build momentum before leaping into the final jump, I found that hard to recreate in 3DS but after watching alot of examples and other animations i found it easier to work out.

Pro's

Using a Biped is simple because you dont have to create the models and bone it

Simple to navigate and control

Easy to set keyframes

Have alot of control of the Biped itself

Con's

Biped is boring to look at

Can be buggy sometimes

Limbs arent very fluid

Examples

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=occFkFbl3ms&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2OtvDXp-mQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=a8ScZ7GQxhs&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=b8GRGQk01mw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWxnshBGZm8&feature=related

Monday, 19 March 2012

Influences

Humvee 1

Humvee 2

Oasis 1

Oasis 2

Desert

Desert Village

Mud Hut

Fencing

Barbed Wire

Barrel of Oil

Concept Ideas

I have made an concept of the humvee that I'm going to create, I have also made a concept of my environment on photoshop and I have made a concept of my building that will fit into my environment on paper.

This is the concept I made for my Humvee i drew the outline of it and then scanned the photo into photoshop

Now that I have made my Humvee I then wanted to add in the environment. I added a blur to the background and a lens flare to make it more movie like and completed.

This is a drawing of a mud hut concept idea, This is a bit different to the one I'm going to create in my final product, the kind of mud hut I'm creating is the same as the one in my humvee concept's background.

Concept of the mud hut that the enemy will use a base and hold weapons and ammo

Overview concept of my environment, including my vehicle and props

Concept of a palm tree

Concept of the oasis with a couple of rocks

Monday, 5 March 2012

Blog Update

Starting the frame of the humvee, I downloaded a reference of the humvee from a website called http://www.the-blueprints.com and cropped them down to size and used a script for 3D Studio Max to add them in.