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.