3D Animation Moodboard

Here is my moodboard for my 3D animation, these images help inspire me to create my final project.

3D Animation Research

3D animation is used in many different ways such as: Architecture, film productions, music productions and many others.
using 3D animation for architecture has really revolutionised the architectural world because with the ability of 3D animation architects can make there visions that much closer to reality.
here is an example video of a architect company that specialises in 3D animation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yiLUOK-z9U

3D animation has also played massive parts in films which can vary from Small special effects too a whole movie production, again like the architecture side of 3D animation, it helps bring the unnatural and unreal that much closer to reality, some examples of films using 3D animation are:

Toy Story

 
Shrek

Gollum form Lord of the rings

and these are only some of the hundreds of films that use 3D animation, as well as the film section 3D animation is begining to appear in music videos, it isn't as popular as the others but it is starting to grow, here are some examples of music videos that use 3D animation:

Noisia & Mayhem ft. KRS One - Exodus:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPJpXu1O7mM

Parkway Drive - Sleepwalker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15mxiWAYSEw&ob=av2e

Kanye West - Heartless: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co0tTeuUVhU&feature=player_embedded#!

A-ha - Take on me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914&ob=av2e

All of these are only a sample of how much

3D Animation

Here is a small video of my first 3D animation using Cinema 4D. This video contains a small ball simply rolling over a ramp and landing on the other side, I wanted to make this simply but still have realism, for example at the end of the animation after the ball rolls off the ramp it bounces slightly when it hits the floor and continues to do so a couple more times, This gives the ball a realistic look. I have also placed simply lighting above the ramp, I have also placed textures on the ball, ramp and the flooring, for the flooring and the ramp I have used a preset wood texture and for the ball I used a simply marble texture which has a realistic shine so you can tell that the ball is rolling.

This is my second 3D Animation using Cinema 4D, for this animation I used my previous model of the ball bearing and simply duplicated and animated them, I also added a simply stand for the bearing to rest on. The animation contains the two bearings spining on the stands quite slowly for a nice realistic animation. I added an array of lights for good lighting effects and for the textures I simply used the same textures for the bearings and put them on the stands aswell, for the background I simply found a realistic black metal texture and placed it onto a plane shape.

Here is my third 3D animation using cinema 4D, for this animation I used a simple figure and created a simple looking basketball shot, I created the backboard from scratch using simple tools and shapes including: Cube, Tube and a cylinder. The floor was very simple, I simply used a plane and put a wood floor texture onto it. For the ball I created a sphere and used a pre-set basket ball material that I found.

Here is another Cinema 4D 3D Animation that I have created, in this video I made a simple sphere and placed objects which I made out of tube shapes, after creating all the objects I then made the tube objects rotate around the sphere and for some extra effect a placed a target camera aimed at the sphere, I moved the camera around the sphere in a random pattern which gave the whole clip a nice effect that the sphere is moving all over the screen.

Here is a 3D Animation that I created using some simple dynamics, We were asked to create a simply leg then use the joint tool to place joints within the leg and then I created a IK Chain to set the joints, I then selected all the joints and binded them to the leg allowing the leg to move in a realistic motion.

Here is a screenshot of the leg I created using simple dynamics, This screenshot shows you all the joints that I have placed within the leg, along with a brief image of the final leg that I used for the animation that is above.

Here is a short video of an animated flag that I created in Cinema 4D, I used a old version of the programme so that I could use some of the plugins to create the wind effect. For the flag I simply used a plane and placed a material of the england flag on top and for the flag pole I simply used a cylinder and just extended it.

 

 Here is my final project animation using Cinema 4D, for my final animation I created a basic looking sniper in a ghillie suit and for the animation, I have you looking in a first-person view as if you were the sniper, after a couple seconds the gun comes closer and the scope aligns with the screen, it then cuts to a scoped view of the target along with this I made the scope animate for realistic aiming after the scope roams around the target I made the scope stiffen as if the sniper is holding his breath just before taken the shot. After the shot is taken I attached a camera to the bullet for a bullet trail effect, the camera stop following the bullet after impact and then pans out to a white background. I added in sound effects for some extra realism, I added a heartbeat sound when sniper is scoped in this sound was followed by a deep breath & hold sound just as the shot is taken, when the bullet gets near the target I used an impact sound which builds and as the bullet hits the target thats when the impact sound kicks in.