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.

 

 

 

texturaing

 

The texture's was quite a simple task once the object was unravelled it was simple to make a good texture for the boat it to a few attempts to get the texture's right. once the unrap was in photo shop it took sometime to get the colour right. this is what the final unravelled looked like it took some time to get the layout right, but once it was done it came out quite well     



The second unravelled was bit like the frist but the colour changes this took a bit longer than the frist a problem that came up with this was the original colour was coming threw behind the new one once this was done it was no problem. the main tools used for this was the paint bucket tool and brush tool.

 

modleing finials

All my modles are finsihed and textutaed i am very happy with what the final part looks like this was quite a tuff assassinment as what i had to make had some very difficulte parts to it but the finshed product looks very good and it works very well with the water i mayde last week i have created a few diffrent colour sceams for the boats and they all look very nice.

Makeing water

this is the water i made with some help of our tutor how it was created was a plain with a noise modifier apllied to it thats what gives it the nice wave effect to it the once this was done i applied a texta to it this what gave it its colour and its glosseness

once the water was complite i added a omni light to see how this would effect the water it gave it a very nice effect but also turned the sceen very dark this would look very good for a night scence


all in all this came out very well and will look really good on our animation

water , boat and other things

This week we learned how to use the reaction tool there where quite a few things that could be done with it and many of them will be useful when it comes to the full animation. the main thing we where using was the reactor tool how this works is by making a normal shape then adding it to a group once this is done you can open the reactor this gives the shape a mass and effected gravity this can be risky when you want the object to do something specific for example we made a ball smash threw a few blocks but the angle kept making the ball fall the wrong way. this is an example of using the reaction tool , as you can see the reaction tool has its own render ea as well as its own engine it uses the havoc engine. i have made a lot of progress with my boat model all that needs to be done now is it need to be modified for the final animation so it can look like lots of different ships for next week want to have it all sorted     

 

story boad

this is the story boads for sceans 2 and 8

this is the frist thing you see in the animtion after the introduction it starts off with a wide shot of the hawin iland then rooms closer into pearl harbour then goes into ground level and zooms in ferther to ford iland

this is when the japaness fly into pearl harbour to bergin with its a normal day then the plaines start comeing in then the camra looks strate up to show all the planes flying over head the idea is to show the start of the attack from the ground level

modaling list

this is the modaling list for owe animtion

Modelling list

Buildings

Air base

Mess halls  

Navy yard

Planes

American planes

Japanese planes  

Boats

American warships

Environments

Hills

Water

Fire

Effects

Explosions  

 

smoothing

The second thing we had to do today was smoothing with this is proper controled smoothing not with tubo smoothing once sorted it was quite fun to use to make diffrent things. what we were shown was how to add two diffrent smoothing groups to diffrent parts of an object how this is done is by clicking on a group of pickles then ansighing witch group you want it to be in. once this is done you ativate the smoothing

simple buildings

In today's tutorial we were creating simple building's and smoothing. What this involved was turning a square into a building the process of this was quite simple. First try came out little wrong but the second attempted was much better. I decided not to stop at something simple and tried to make something a bit more in trusting and just kept adding things to it like more windows and extend the original building. This is what I created  

 

as you can see its trying to be a caravan of some kind this wasn't my original idea, but after mucking around with it this is what came out i am quite pleased with it the windows are made by adding the pixels the extruding them. i did some creative thinking and came up with this

i don't know what i was thinking when i turned it into a trailer park but i thought it was a good idea this was done with cloning, the green block was my first attempt at making the house i just added it in for a bit of extra detail.

history of pearl harbour

On December 7th 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attacked on the American Navy paced at the Hawiian navel base of pearl harbour thousands died and but less had been injured this is what pushed the Americans into the second world war. The bombing raid started at 7:55am and lasted until 9:45am in that time total of 2,335 us service men had been killed.

Looking at the layout there were two parts to the base one part was on an island called Ford Island this was the naval air station. Where a large number of plains where held around ford island and of shore of it where most of the US navy fleet.They were kept wing tip two wing tip witch made them an easy target. The naval yard was on the main land along with the HQ and the submarine base. South of naval base was a US army air base

 

 

the main targets of the first wave of bombers was the airfield and the battleships. That where all in a line off shore of ford island. according to (histroy1900sabout.com) All eight U.S. battleships were either sunk or damaged during the attack. Amazingly, all but two (the Arizona and the Oklahoma) were eventually able to return to active duty.

 

 

http://www.erikanderson.net/pearlharbor/facts.html

http://history1900s.about.com/od/Pearl-Harbor/a/Pearl-Harbor-Facts.htm

http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/myths/index.html

http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/teach/pearl/aftermath/facts.htm

http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/07/pearl-harbor-day-key-facts-about-the-attack-on-december-7-1941/

http://www.mobile-qr-codes.org/pearl-harbor-facts.html

http://www.pearlharboroahu.com/attack.htm

 

 theses are a few sites i found with lots of facts and information about the attack on Pearl harbour here are a few i picked out

 

 

• The attacked took place Dec 7^th 1941
• There were three air strips on in the base (this would mean if you want it to be right there must be three in the animation
• The Japanese had 30ships
• One of the main targets was the war ships in pearl harbour
• Japanese suffered just small losses
• The air raid lasted until about 9:45 a.m.
• The main target for the first wave was the airfield and battleships.
• The second wave targets were other ships and shipyard facilities.
• Of the eight battleships, all but the Arizona and Oklahoma were eventually repaired and returned to service.
• The attack was planned weeks in advance.
• All of the planes on the Japanese ships were fully fulled and armed.
• Pearl Harbour has 10 square miles of navigable water.
• The harbour is on the southern coast of Oahu.
• Three prime targets escaped damage, the U.S. Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers, the Lexington, Enterprise and Saratoga. They were not in the port when the attack took place.
• The Japanese used the codename operation z for the attack on pearl harbour

   

   

Brief is on Pearl harbour this a very historical event the assignment looks to be very in trusting and will require a lot of research into the the event there was a possible conspiracy behind it that could be a part of the animation just show the facts. i already have a few ideas for the animation but the main thing to do first will be to do lots of research and plan before using 3ds mac. it is good we get to work in groups for this assignment gives a good opportunity to see others skills and learn a some new skills that will come in handy when making other things

one of the main things to this assignment is to learn a new skill this could be a very good thing but need to make a good decision on something that i could learn to improve learning a good animation style my be good or learning how to make good environmental effects could be another, but any new skills that could be developed would be good.

my overall thoughts on the brief are this will be alot of work but will be a good to create something like this as it would be good to go into a portfolio at the end of the year.