Project 3- Animation of the Completed 3D Scene

The final project involves production of a short animation of the completed 3D scene from previous project, using 3Ds Max's animation commands and tools. The video clips or images produced from 3Ds Max is then editted in Windows Movie Maker.

Work in Progress:

Generate scenes from 3Ds Max
1. Draw smooth lines for the camera path in the scene from top view.

2. Create a camera to be following the path.

 3. Attach camera to path.
     Select Camera > Motion > Assign Controller > Position > Path Constraint

4. Sometimes, the other objects are hidden or deleted to easily handle the camera.

 Generate human figure into the scene.
1. Populate > Seated Character > Drag to the desired position

2. The character gender and height can be chosen.
    For a human group, amount of human generated can be adjusted.

3. The "seat" is then deleted from the scene.

Sun animation
1. Daylight is created with setting as mr Sun and mr Sky.

2. Using Set Key, a sun animation is created by setting different sun position in alternate frames.

Pivot door is created. Using set key and rotate to generate door opening scene.



Render Setup
1. Set time output to Active Time Segment to render every frames or set to Range to select the desired parts. For time saving, every nth frame tool can be used but it may affect the smoothness of the animation.

2. File can be saved in avi format or jpeg format based on preferences.

Video edit in Windows Movie Maker
1. Scenes are brought into movie maker to be editted.

2. For frames saved in jpeg files, the images are brought into movie maker to be joined before combining with other scenes.

3. Background music is added.

4. Text captions are added.

3Ds Max file