Final Video
The final video of Ernie's journey to work can be seen below:
To cover the "procedure and tools" used for the video, the Bear was rendered on a green screen and the backgrounds were rendered separately to reduce render time in Max. Before rendering in Max, the biped was made invisible by using the Layers tool. Various glow and colour adjust effects were applied in Sony Vegas to give the scenes a bit more 'spark' as Max's scenes looked characterless and dull by default. The Bear's hat was also green-screened on as attaching a 3D hat to the walking Biped didn't result in the right look.
Overall, I'm fairly pleased with the animation as although character modelling and animation isn't my strong suit, I believe I've created a character capable of emotion and movement based on videos and images. In the final edit, a lot of extraneous scene setting shots have been shortened or removed to focus on the animation while still telling a story.
To cover the "procedure and tools" used for the video, the Bear was rendered on a green screen and the backgrounds were rendered separately to reduce render time in Max. Before rendering in Max, the biped was made invisible by using the Layers tool. Various glow and colour adjust effects were applied in Sony Vegas to give the scenes a bit more 'spark' as Max's scenes looked characterless and dull by default. The Bear's hat was also green-screened on as attaching a 3D hat to the walking Biped didn't result in the right look.
Overall, I'm fairly pleased with the animation as although character modelling and animation isn't my strong suit, I believe I've created a character capable of emotion and movement based on videos and images. In the final edit, a lot of extraneous scene setting shots have been shortened or removed to focus on the animation while still telling a story.
cool:) I like the camera work in some parts :)