final thoughts and did i master makeing water

my aim was to learn to make water and make a good molde of a ww2 ship i feel i have manged this with help of Richard and other members of my team. The water has turned out very well and i feel i have reached my goal of mastering it i feel i have done this it will help very much in other task i may do. i feel the ships i where ask to maybe  are a very good slandered and help set the scene.

the others in my group where very hard working and we came up with a good animation some thing where better than others and some didn't want to re do thing when we ask to make it better and didn't want to listen when we ask if they could do it this way but all in all we work well together.


the main things i thought really worked well was the land scape's the boats the water the buildings but i feel the planes could have been better as they don't look as good as they could have been.


if i was to do this project again i would perhaps add more to the battle scene i for my scene would make sure there was more time for long renders apart from that i feel we did very well.

flash back scene

The last scene i had to do was a flash back i was a very simple shot of a bomb droping on a the ships and landing in the water and makeing a splash this was very simple i was a mixtuer of super spray and ripple effect i felt that the final reasult look really good.

 

My part of the attack scene had many problems for ex sample to start with i want the plane to drop the bombs and then fly round the islands and then fly between the boats. i tried this but it was very difficult to get the planes to fly in a realistic way. so i changed it to the planes fly over then the camera pans down and looks at the damage done to the ship this work nicely i made the boats sink and did smoke and the bombs landing in the water it all looked really nice


the animation on this part was easy just had to make the camera pan down all i need to do was make sure that the Angle was right.


The main issues was rendering i split the scene on 4 diffrent computers and the first 137 frames where done the last 233 would have taken a grand total of 75 hours, this is why the whole scene was not in the animation.we did get a extra 50 frames to add to the 137 so we got about half but not as much as there could have been. After a day we had to just take what i had and put it together with everything else even tho it wasn't as long as i would have liked we still had the bombs land on the ships and the smoke come up i don't thinks its long enough to watch the ships sink.

 

 

 

 



 

 

This would have been the last shot of this scene as you can see it would have shown some of the ships sunck even thow it was not put in the finshed animation it still looks good. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

voice over

For the animation i had to do the voice over which where giving the facts about pearl harbour this was a easy to do there where few issues with me not getting what was on the paper right and facts wrong but apart from that there was no issues.

the only thing i didn't like was listen to my voice even tho everyone said it sounds good and professional i don't like it that much.


the voice over didn't focus on the American facts like some groups may do we tried to look at the Japanese side but tired not to be biased to either side.

map

one of the scene's that i had to do was the first thing seen in the animation which was the map of Pearl harbour this was very simple to do it was a plane with with the map on it as a texture this did not take much time at all.

the animation took two try's as the first time it didn't look right the second time i changed it to be quicker and just zoom straight in.

the rendering took two times as well for the first time i didn't put it on the right settings.

Aniamtion flying in

The animation took sometime to do there where quite a few problems with it one was getting the camera to work well in the first scene i animated the camera didn't want to move the way i wanted it but once it was done it look good another problem. I had with this scene was the planes flying in as there was quite a large number of them it took some time to get them in a good formation to make them fly in a good style and get them not to break the computer i was happy the way the planes flew in. Once the flying in was done it look really good with the boats in the background and the water even tho i had a few problems with the animation on this scenes it look really good
how i did the animation was quite simple this the camera just turned on the axes and the planes just flew in a straight direction.

    

this is a shot from the final animation i feel that everything put together looks really good the triangle in the bottom right hand corner is meant to be the front of the ship the idea was someone looking out to sea and seeing the planes flying it

this shot is more toward the beginning this shot is just as the planes are flying in i feel that it pans very well and the whole scene works very well together

the boats

the boat was quite difficult to get right as the size of the model and the different shapes that would be needed to make it well the model started off with a square and stretched the polygons and shaped it to look more like the ship. To start with i felt that the boat would not come out as well as it could but after some time it started to look really good.


once the bottom was finished the top needed to be started this was a much easier task the top was a big mixture of shapes i used a large variety of tools to make the different parts of the ship including extruding and bevel to make the windows.  

This is the final ship i am very happy with the way it came out i could have added more detail to it but all in all it looks really good.