Critical Analysis

As this project comes to a close its time to look back on the last six weeks and what ive produced and learnt.

Over the last 12 weeks I wished that i had much more time and experience with the software to produce the anumation that I would have liked, as it was I had only a pasing experience with the software and as such I had really no clue as to how to animate a human body using the bones and rigging. The island in the first scene was one that i was never truly happy with, more time and experience would have allowed me to create a more realistic looking island or maybe looking at other software suited to landscaping such as Bryce and importing that into the 3DS Max scene. Having a computer that could handle the software would have helped aswell.

There are some areas in the first scene which could have been done better such as the very stupid mistake of getting the Lava level wrong in the second part of the scene and adding a smoke trail to the missile. The main think I didnt like about the island scene was the actual island and the water, they didnt look very realistic, more reseach into landscaping and water effects would have been beneficial but due to lack of time this part had to be animated as quickly as possible considering I still had an entire scene to model.

The second scene was more to my liking apart from the aforementioned lack of knowledge about rigging and animating characters. Lighting is the main area that really let this part of the animation down, cant get the daylight system to work the way i had wanted it to, either it whites out the entire scene due to being too bright or its completely black, managed to get a sort of dusk out of the system but it was still way too dark for my liking.

The other areas i did not really like would have been the sound, I have had little or no experience with Adobe Premier Pro and it shows with the audio, i really need far more work with this software system to get proficient with it.

Below is the trailer linked from youtube.