Setting up all the files and scenes

Once i had animated everything i had to in the separate scenes and rendered all the camera angles i had to export it in to an avi format so that i could put it all together in adobe premier pro. I ended rendering about 7 frames but 2 of which i rendered twice with different camera angles. I named then in coordination of sequence. The next thing that i had to do was get audio for the fly and background. I also had to create audio for the story as well of which i had to talk over. I used a free program call wave pad which helps record and edit sound easily. I also needed to create a written story as well which i created in Illustrator and exported in a png so there was a transparent background. Once i had all my elements i imported everything in to premier and started to add the finishing touches to everything.

When i started to render the animation i had to add multiple lights. I did have a light but that was not sufficient enough. i ended up having to put 3 omni lights up. 2 of which were white lights and i was a yellow light. when i rendered the scene to see what i was like, it was much to bright. I had to the edit the lights bringing down the brightness down a lot. I ended up having 2 white lights at about .3 and the yellow light a little brighter at .4. This made a huge difference to the animation giving it some very nice shadow effect. I had to also position the lights very carefully so that it would brighten the whole scene and not just parts of it. I did this by positioning it in a triangle.

Animating

When animating the scenes i had to break it down in to separate parts. I had to work out where i wanted the fly to go and what i wanted it to do. For my animation I generally used a path constraint so that the fly would be able to move along the path. I had problems with creating lines in 3dsmax because the software is corrupted and this cause huge problems in the creation of the animation. Seeing that this was the case i had to create all my line in Illustrator and then import it in to 3ds max. I had to have a line for the fly as well as the camera. In some cases i had the camera line over lap the fly's line so i could get an effect of the fly hitting in to the camera. For the animation of the fly i needed to make the wings beet to give it the impression of flight. I did this buy manually making the wings beat and then opening the dope sheet menu and looping the animation. i did the fly animation in the original file that i created the fly in so that once it was animated i wouldnt have to re-animate it once i merged it in to the file that i eas doing the main animation. Once the fly wings were created i had to animate the legs so that it would sway gently from side to side. I did this in nthe same way as the wings but had a longer frame gap so it wouldnt move so fast.

Man model

For this man i had to use bones so that i could have his arm hit the fly when landing on the head. I decided to create a basic man because he would not be present long enough in the animation.

Getting to grips with basic animation.

This is me getting to grips with a basic form of animation. Its not brilliant and this is not what the final out come will look like in any case.

My background....

Ok for my background image i have spent a fair bit of time doing. I need this to be pretty good so that it give me a good basis for my fly to have obsticales to fly into and around. For the garden fence i used a box to get the panelling right then i created a path so that the box can follow the path. I had problems with this because i created it in another file and when i imported it from another file in to the background image, it was tiny. Then when i englarged it everything was out of proportion so i had to delete it and start again in the same file.

Cracking on with modelling

Right to start of with i am doing an animation call the bald man and ther fly, althought you can probably gather that by now. To start of with i need to model 2 main things, one being the fly and two being a bald man. For my fly i have made it a kind of cartoon. I feel that modeling in a cartoon style kids wuill be able to relate to its more and hopefuly find more interesting. For the model i have slightly changed it so that its more of a mosqito than a fly with a huge conbe as a snozzle that theyu use to suck blood out of. In total i have used 8 spheres to create this pest and for the wings i used planes which i learnt from earlier tutorials. I have made it semi transparent like reall flys wings. My idea for the fly is to make it a little bit stupid and ganly in a sense. I want to have a camerea following the fly and some time the camera being the fly. I also want the fly to have little accidents bumping in to trees or have to fly bump in to the camera itself and shaking its head......

Story board 2

I have decide that for the animation i will be emphasizing the fly instead of the man which i was originally going to do. I have different reasons for this change.

Reason 1 would be because i feel that animating the fly and focusing on it will be and easier task than animating the man.

Reason 2 is because animating the man will have a bit of a boring out come because he will be ploughing a field and there isn't many different things that i can work with, but on the other hand i could play about with fly and it would be a lot more interesting for little kids to watch. I can have the camera be the fly so you have a flies perspective.

Reason 3 would be purely for the fact that i have many more ideas animating the fly instead of the man.

Story board:for Bald man and the Fly

This is a basic story board of what i want to happen in the animation. I will be looking at adding a slap stick kind of music in to the background as well as maybe sound effects of walking flys and countyside.

Mood Boards

My 3 fables

For my three fables i decided to go with a fable that is not out dated and can apply to all people not just children.
For my first fable the The Ant and the Dove the moral of this fable is a good turn deserves another.

AN ANT went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and
being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of
drowning. A Dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked
a leaf and let it fall into the stream close to her. The Ant
climbed onto it and floated in safety to the bank. Shortly
afterwards a birdcatcher came and stood under the tree, and laid
his lime-twigs for the Dove, which sat in the branches. The Ant,
perceiving his design, stung him in the foot. In pain the
birdcatcher threw down the twigs, and the noise made the Dove
take wing.

Fable two: The Bald Man and the Fly. The moral of this is Revenge will hurt the avenger.


A FLY bit the bare head of a Bald Man who, endeavoring to destroy
it, gave himself a heavy slap. Escaping, the Fly said mockingly,
"You who have wished to revenge, even with death, the Prick of a
tiny insect, see what you have done to yourself to add insult to
injury?' The Bald Man replied, "I can easily make peace with
myself, because I know there was no intention to hurt. But you,
an ill-favored and contemptible insect who delights in sucking
human blood, I wish that I could have killed you even if I had
incurred a heavier penalty."

Fable Three: The Boy and the Nettles. The moral of this story is Whatever you do, do with all your might.

A BOY was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother,
saying, "Although it hurts me very much, I only touched it
gently." "That was just why it stung you," said his Mother. "The
next time you touch a Nettle, grasp it boldly, and it will be
soft as silk to your hand, and not in the least hurt you."