Week 11

We are approaching to the final week of this semester and this week is the most important time to complete everything. The for the environment and the engines has been all animated and ready to be rendered. As Dan has told me that the lighting effect has worked superbly and so we can now focus on the final animation for the scenes. So for my part of the job was to animate the last scene to zoom out slowly from the dredger.

The method was simple, all was needed is to set a key from 0 and slowly drag the camera backwards right to keyframe 200. There I've animated the last scene. The duration for this scene is only last for 5 seconds.

On the overall progression I find that everything is working fine and no errors occurred. I am pleased with the environment and the engine by Dan and Tina.

Final part for my job now is to render the last scene and first part of the engine. As Dan has calculated how much it would take the engine to be rendered, it seems it would take days to render and by splitting into 3 sections, myself, Tina and Dan have rendered it. I have rendered the last scene into an MOV file which took 12 hours and so I needed to leave it rendering throughout the night in room 303A and come back the day after. With the first part of the engine I have also left it in room 303A on another computer to render that night.

There was a slight problem with the engine when I have came back that morning, the engine was rendered into an AVI file but somehow the computer does not support it. So once again I needed to re-render it but as I could not leave it to render throughout the night I needed to render into 4 sections which approximately took over 3 hours. I've rendered two in MOV and the other into AVI files due to certain computers I was using. But thankfully in the end it was successful.

So my part has now been completed and all the rest is up to Jeremy to edit the videos.

My overall view in this subject I thought to begin with, how I am going to model Switzerland? and the dredger? but in the end images of the location is really the only clue I have to model it. Overall I am happy with the work.