A space scene Animation

This is the animation I made for a project our class was given. There were no specifics as to what the animation had to be about, which help a great deal as I wasent trying to create something someone has told me rather we were able to create something entirely independent and something that relates to use as people.
   The reson I chose to create a space scene was because ever since I can remebemer I have loved all things to do with the universe and have always been astounded by whats out there. When i was given the chance to create this animation I knew isntantly that I wanted to create something to do with the space. I feel that the whole process of creating this animation went well even though challenges did occur, i was able to tackle them with ease and evetually ended up with something I'm quite pleased with considering this wa smy first big animation.
    I went for quality rather than quantity with this animation but unfortuanalty the quality can not been seen as the rendered avi file, is not the best quality itself, there for all the effects i put into the animation e.g. the sun look kind of tacky and rubish, however I will also put a rendered jpeg of the animation on the post to show you how it was supposed to look.
     Once the animation was finished I put it together in windows movie maker, as there were 3 different camera shots in the animation I had to render each one indavidually. I also added some effects using movie maker e.g. added music and effects for when the camera shot was changed. 
Overall there were a few challanges with this animation, but you must face challanges sometimes in order to achieve maximum potential as a challenge pushes you harder to achieve.

Well this Is my animation I hope you enjoy and thanks for reading 

Evaluation of storyboard for comic strip

I where asked to create a comic strip using a favourite character from cartoons or anime and placing them in the comic strip completely out of context. Of course the character/s will have to altered so that I was not in breach of copyright e.g. colour of clothing, fair accessories ext.         
        This is something I did on photoshop a while back which is a rendition of what Byakuya is supposed to look like -
-This will be coloured differently so that copyright will not be breached 


          I first began to brainstorm a few ideas on what the comic strip could be about. Once I had decided on a wild west style comic, I then chose a character from the anime/ manga "bleach" called "Byakuya", he is very noble, a leader of one of the four noble famalies and is well respected in the world of bleach. He is also my favourite character so when this opertunity came up i jumped at the chance to create an out of context comic strip with him in it. However In order to be able to create the comic I first had to practise my skills at drawing byakuya.
I decided to use Byakuya for my comic as I feel it is definalty putting out of his comfort zone "so to speak", when I came up with the Idea for using byakuya I knew that whatever I did had to be completly out of context to bleach, so I thought what better way than to but him in the wild west. In my opinion compared to bleach, the wild west is the most out of context you could possible be.

      The storyboard was the hardest part of the entire process as my skills at drawing arnt exactly amazing, but I did the best i could with the skill I had. The storyboard basically shows every step of the comic strip and what is going on during the scene.
                                        Here is said storyboard-

    I then began on making a few backgrounds of Photoshop for the comic, I did this using images from the internet and combining them together to create my own unique image. This took me some time perfecting them and trying to get all the images to work together and look professional. I used a number of different tools in order t do this e.g. burn, smooth, blur and so on.
The next two images are of said backgrounds:

Once the storyboard and backgrounds were finished I scanned the images onto the computer and got to work on the images in Photoshop. It took me about 2 hours to colour each image, add background and extra's, some of the pictures look really good but others arn't the best. I guess this is just becuase my skills in Photoshop arn't exactly proffessional and I need to spend more time on it in order to achieve greater potential. There was also the fact that time was against me, as I had missed a good 2 hours work due to illness, also I knew I really had to get to it. In the end I think the comic strip looks quite good and I'm happy with it but feel that if I had more time and it was made using more time management instead of rushing it could have come out a lot better.

In conclusion I'm happy with the outcome although could have gone a lot better, I should have managed my time more wisely and spent less time on the minor details. I dont think I would perticularly like to do this again, as it was very strainiouse, time consuming and i didnt find enjoyment out of it, but then again maybe this was becuase of the rush. if I were to do this again I would manage my time and set my self deadlines for seperate tasks within the production.

Thanks for reading,  here is the comic strip: (side note the character in my comic was not created by me rather a re-imagination of byakuya- all credit goes to tite kubo and the makers of bleach),(anime girl in section 8 of comic strip was originally taken from- http://xobabiihoshiiox.deviantart.com/art/anime-girl-head-157792554 but I added changes and changed the colours of the entire picture)

  This is a profesional example of a comic strip, this perticular comic strip is from the manga/ anime called "Bleach". Which in my opinion is the greatest animae of all.

Making a space scene in 3ds max

This is the animation that I found on youtube.
made by: ErraticOblivion 

I was researching for a tutorial on how to create an authentic looking sun in 3ds max and instead found a tutorial for a space scene. Intrigued by the name of thew animation I decided to take a look and ended up watching the entire video,afterwards I decided I would give it a go.

This is my attempt at recreating the animation.To do this I had to follow the tutorial precise and accurately and even then I had many problems and the end result was not what I had hoped for never the less I'm happy with the outcome though I would have changed some elements of the animation if I had the time.

The make this animation I used a number of different elements of 3ds max I never new existed, thus opening a whole new world of 3d modeling and animation to me, so I new I had my work cut out for me. I began by creating a sphere on top of a sphere and added textures to both, the first was a map of the earth and the second bigger sphere was textured with a cloud map. Doing this made the sphere look exactly like earth and with the clouds it looked more realistic. Then I created a camera and added an atmospheric effect called V rays to the camera lens, by doing this it created the image of a sun in the top right corner. After playing around with the colours, brightness and camera effects I was happy with my sun.
     I then added a star field to the animation so that it really was a space scene. Finally the scene was set and all I had to do then was animate the camera moving slightly south west, I also added a shaking effect to the camera for added effect. In doing this the problem occurred, looking back its not much of a problem. The camera shuck to much, but my friends persuaded me that it looked fine, so I left it at that.
   In conclusion I feel that considering I only spent 2 hours making the animation, it was fairly good for my first time. If i ever try this again I will consider using different effects of adding a spaceship to the scene. Overall I'm happy with the outcome but would rather not have to try make this again as it was very strenuous and aggravating.

Examle of professional 3d animations

This is a video of professional animation from the game Might & Magic heroes 6. The animations are of a extremely good quality and must have taken a fairly long time to make depending on how big the animating team who made them where. There are great amounts of detail used in the flow in movement of the models as well as the texturing all are to a high standard. Of course my capabilities of animating arnt at this level but i can only hope that I can make something of this caliber eventually.