this weeks project was to make a intro to our portfolio, with particles and/or dynamics.
-Mon, 14:00-16:00, learning particles/dynamics
-Tue, 14:00-16:00, planing
-Wed, 14:00-16:00, setting up and working
-Thu, 14:00-16:00, working
-Fri, 14:00-16:00, finishing
daily drawings this week was to draw stick figures in different kind of poses.
we started the week by learning the particle basics and dynamic basics. i started planing how my intro. my main inspiration was a logo a friend made for me some years ago that i made to my banner here on the blog. i wanted to have something with the color the text. i wanted something cartoon like. i used the Grinch font for the letters and made a simple star shape. when i got these i was ready to make the intro with particles and dynamics.
my idea was that the text would fall down and scatter and the star would fly by with a particle tail and “repair” the letters. i used bullet rigid active and passive body to make the letters fall down and hit a ground plain. i sat up the gravity and a little turbulence to make the letters scatter more. i also copied the text and make a “fixed” version that was going to be at the end when the star passed. the star was easy i keyed the frames where it was going to pass and after fixed the motion trail to get it more natural and not hard edges where it turns.
i made the star a particle surface emitter to emit the particles. i made the particles life span not forever but to random to make it more natural. the particles has a could shader and the colors i had in my banner, so mentalray would render them out.
when i was happy with all i baked and keyed what needed to be baked and keyed and batchrendered it our with mentalray. i added all the images in adobe premier as an image sequence and faded it out. i didn’t have time to find and add background music or noise.
(video, soon)
if i had more time i would make the video a little longer and find background music and/or music. i would practise more with particles and maybe find a way to make a rainbow pattern instead of the particles changing color over age. i would use more time to get the star a better motion and maybe a rotation.
Caroline 3D design and animations 