Assignment 03: Final Animation Control Challenges

Assignment Brief

 

Progress

First, I think of using back my Performative Media Assignment's story to do this modelling assignment as I need the 3D models for my PM assignment too. I have a small scene which involved a drum factory, I want to show a little bit of what happens inside the drum factory which of course is mainly about the manufacturing process of drum. Thus, I use this to do my looping animation. 

Originally, I only want to do one scene, which is the drum being put into box. But, as I discovered I need more content for another assignment, I do 2 more scenes which is spraying paint on drum and install metal structure on drum. The attachment below is the storyboard for this assignment. 

I first create the 3D models of everything, like the drum, the machines and etc. Then I make the conveyor belt being loop on its on by using follow path. I first create a simple curve line that I want the conveyor belt moves on. Then, I add the follow path function on the conveyor belt and use the curve line as my path. Then I use key frame for making the boxes and drums move. 

There is one particular challenge that I face, which is I cannot use array function to duplicate my conveyor belts, I also cannot duplicate the whole machine including conveyor belt for my other scenes. This troubles me as I cannot makes the follow path function work well. And I need to create other machines again. My solution is to duplicate the conveyor belts one by one which takes a lot of my time. This successfully solved the problem, but it did waste a lot of time. I will keep on learning and find a better solution for these challenges. 

There are 2 final products, one is with realistic materials which involved only one scene, the other is with glowing materials, have 3 scenes, which I will be using for performative media assignment too. 

Product

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Reflection

The process of making this animation and 3D models are very fun and inspiring. I learned about follow path function in the blender and now I have more confident on using key frames to do animation too. I also discover more about my passion on doing animation and 3D modelling. I enjoy the process very well. Thank you to our lecturer and my fellow classmates for guiding me in this assignment and the whole semester. I feel grateful for the knowledges and guidance which leads me to provide better production, better works with passion.