Conclusion

Now that all the animations have been rendered and complied together in premier pro along with sound, i would like to say that my animation was a success. I feel that the animation matches the aesop's fable the fox and the lion perfectly, keeping with the story given.

I am very satisfied with how my animation has come out, all the tools and techniques we learned over the course of the semester really helped in creating my animation. The sound in the animation could be improved, first to better fit the animation, and make the transitions between the tracks smoother.

The cameras i used throughout the animation where used to give the best view on what was happening in the scene, I used the over the shoulder camera shot for the lion as i felt that this view was best for the perspective of the lion.

The lighting i used for the animation was the same lighting through out. I found a tutorial on the web that showed me how to do a good looking realist daylight. I stuck with the same life for all of the animation, as wanted to make it seem like it was the same time of day each day.

Problems i faced during the animation process was mixer mode, i could not get the animation to move where i wanted it to in the scene i had to move the scene around the model. This became very annoying and sometimes would cause errors in some of my meshes. One of the scenes in the movie (scene 3) due to the issue with the moving of the models, my fox is walking in the air. Watch the fox walk its not that noticeable, but watching the shadow you can tell it is in the air.

f i was to do this again i would spend more time on my models and go for realism, plan my time out more wisely with my animation so I don't leave the rendering till the last minute. Spend more time on the sounds, to get sounds more suited to my animation.

I feel that overall the animation has been a success, i feel that my animation meets the brief we where given. There are a couple of problems with animation that i did not get time to fix but overall the animation runs smoothly.

Premier Pro

Once all the animations are completed it was time to compile them together, i started by importing all the movie files into Premier Pro and placing them in there place onto the time line. Title pages where added throughout the animation, a title page with the name of the animation and my SID has been added with a title page at the end of the animation saying end.

The sound files where found on http://www.freesound.org/, once downloaded they where taken from the library and put into the time line. the clips had to be cut down to match the size of the other clips. Once the animations had been puzzled together, i exported the video as my final animation.

Clip 8

This clip is the final clip of the animation originally in the storyboard this was going to be a clip of the lion and the fox walking away together. I ran into many complications with this, and using mixer mode this just could not be done. So i decided to keep with the over the shoulder shot and have the fox walk away. Although this time the lion will wave at the fox as he is leaving.
The fox animation was created using mixer mode, using the same walk cycle used throughout the animation. The lion animation was created in the time line, the animation was very simple, lifting up the lions paw and rotating it as if the say good buy.

Clip 7

Clip 7 is when both the lion and the fox meet and have a conversation. i set both models up on the stage next to each other and faced them towards each other. I used the time line in order to create the animation of the 2 talking. To give the impression that they are talking i animated the lion and the fox to bob there heads in a talking manor.
I chose to place the camera in this shot to just fit the lion and the fox in, to bring more focus to there actions and that they are comuniacting.

Clip 6

I found this scene the hardest to create due to the mixer mode now letting me move the bipeds position once adding the animation. So i decided to split this scene into 2 parts 6.1 and 6.2. 6.1 if of the fox walking towards the left side of the stage, keeping with the over the shoulder shot camera for this clip.
Once i had finished the first clip i started the second, i had to rearrange the stage so the fox was facing the right way to walk. the second clip is of the fox walking towards the lion. i changed the camera for this shot. This was to get a better view of bother the lion and the fox meeting.

Clip 5

Clip 5 is the second day the lion and the fox meet, the fox is less scare this time so i wanted to have the fox stand back and watch the lion, The fox starts the clip looking away from the lion and turning his head towards him i had to make all animations in the scene on the time line as i had not create these into bip files.
The for will then take a step back and just as the fox steps back the lion will go in for for a drink. Rotating each part of the neck and the head to give a good curve as the lion goes down. Camera in the scene i have again gone for an over the shoulder shot, wanting to give it more of a personal view go the lion.

Clip 4

For clip 4 the lion will be drinking from the watering hole him self. I started the animation by placing the lion into position on the waters edge. I the manipulated the biped for the lion to drink from the water. This became a problem, the lion model is bigger in scale then the fox model, as i was sinking the mesh to reach the water, there where a lot of issues to do with skinning. I opened up the skin modifier and this was repair quickly with no errors.

With the mesh now looking better it was tame to begin creating the animation. The animation for this was made in the time life on the stage, with the lions head in the water like with the fox, i turned the lions head from left to right to to give the idea that he is drinking the water.

I went for a long camera for this shot, to give a good view of the lion taking a drink in the watering hole.