Computer App 2 Finale Video Assignment.
All the projects or assignments of the whole course run toward an end which is making a at least 1 minute long video/ animation which is the epicdome of the whole course.
for this assignmet it is require that we use our previous assignment, the project 2a and 2b (house on the hill) and figure out and do an animation of it using 3dsmax. In this I added another TWIST: which is to add in the gundam from my first assignment into the whole animation.
the plan: a toy size gundam suddenly wake up at night and start to run around the house, exploring the house and in the end flying off into the sky!!!
Well that is what i finally decided while doing the animation and rendering. IDEA is FANTASTIC!! EXECUTION i give myself only about 50% as i only about to complete slightly more than half of what i want. and also because of difficulties i faced and unexpected not too good result from my animation rendering.
well as the saying goes: Pictures said a thousand word (or something like that) Well in this case the Video itself: So sit back and enjoy for a while
well should you unable to see it, you can always go to youtube to see it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPcP5M73TBc)
from the video itself, i think most will already started to form their own opinion. well nothing i can said about it. what done is done.
one thing to note is that this time i didnt do any if at all of the WIP. frankly speacking, the process, the rendering really took a toll on me, worry me sick until i dare not to tourch the computers as they do their work.
Computers i said. well to be exact, it is 5-6 computers in the computer labs in the school. initially, i was planing to use my trusty acer laptop to do the work but only few days before the submission date, (due to unreasonable amount of other assignments pilling together,, competing to be submited on the same day) i found that my computer cannot keep up the workload., crash until i loss count. the only option left is computer lab, commandeering as many computer as i can lay my hand on. (if possible more than 10 computer at my disposal)
my plan is simple: what should have taken 1 whole day to do will be done in just under 3 hours using a few computer to render different segments of that particular scenes. due to lack of time, i sadly made a compromise which is render the animation a lower setting which end result is as you can see in the video (low resolution) (not sure why/ what / how it can be as during the rendering each part look fine)
anyway to cut long story short, the whole animation, short of 2 minutes long video were diveided into few scenes and from each scenes i further divided it into smaller segment so that each computer will be able to handle it and not be crash due to over workload. to keep track of the whole individual segment i actually needed to write down each individual part to keep track which comp doing what and where is the file.
while other just simply sit/ sleep / walk away while the rendering is in progress, i just use another comp to do the next part of the animation, in this process, i was able to work, finish the wholle rendering just slightly more that a day work (no sleep the day before the submission)
in the end, i just use window live movie maker to help patch up alll the individual segment and finish it with an audio song from the latest gundam animation which i found appropriate for what i intended.
Lastly sorry about this long overdue WIP and also this NOT SO WIP as i dont have any picture to show what i have done. my only concern at that time is to make sure the whole thing get rendered in time and I stressed that I DARE NOT TOURCH THE COMPUTERS while they are rendering, as i have learned a few time which resulted in me having to rendered a few part for few time. Thank YOU.
