Wednesday, 3 December 2008

Working the camera

I have started to animate the camera in the main room. The idea is that you start as if you are just waking up and the camera will fade in from black. Havent had any major problems so far. Only now and again from an inbetween the camera would decide to go and do its own thing, but I wasnt amused so I played around with the graph editor to smooth the flow of the camera and speed it up or slow it down in places. This is the first time Ive tried to use the graph editor when animating and ive found it makes life a lot easier and more straight forward. The overall look of the animation is better when animating this way, as it flows more and not as stop start or jumpy as it would have been if I didnt use the graph editor.
Out of the animation so far, I really like the movement towards the vase at the bottom of the stairs, the way it focuses in on it and then up to the candle sticks. It is what I wanted to acheive and its turned out really well. Im sure its possible to upload a playblast from maya but im not sure how to. Ill try to find out and hopefully put one on the blog.
Im happy that josh, ash and spencer are letting me do the camera as it was something i really wanted to try and theyre happy with the progress so far

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