Final animation

Final animation

Target dummy

Incase the video doesn't work or look good on blogger here is the link to it uploaded on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQU1_9-2-UI&feature=youtu.be

Music:
http://www.freesound.org/people/alienistcog/sounds/126661/

Poster

Poster

 

Music

Music

 I found music to be really hard to find for my character story as nearly everything i clicked on didn't sound right in any way. 

I eneded up thinking that this song would work really well untill playing it with the scene running and it did not fit at all. specially with the gun shot sound effects that i had placed in it.

8tracks.com/lukeimpressed/a-carnival-during-winter

After searching through a great deal of music tracks i found that this recording from a fair would best suit my scene and having the gun shots and reloading in it.

http://www.freesound.org/people/alienistcog/sounds/126661/

After effects

After effects

 In after effects i created the bullet effect with using a image key framing the mask on it and the position that it came in and faded out of the scene. This is the optical flare that was used and i had just changed the colour in photoshop to yellow before importing into after effects.

Video

Video for email notifier

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBCuTVDprKk&feature=youtu.be

Since blogger doesn't have good uploading or viewing i uploaded it to youtube.

After changing my idea two of three different times I ended up with something that was interesting and had visual and sounds with it. The email notifier cheeks for emails regularly talking information back and forth from the internet through the port to the C# script and to the arduino. When  an email is sent and received in the email “inbox” the script from C# picks up that something new has entered sending that information to the arduino then outputting beeping and flashing led. Once the email had been cheeked the beeping and flashing led would stop. There are other ways that the output can displayed. I would have liked to connect it to a unique glowing object so others don’t understand why it wouldn’t turn on until an email in received and begins to glow until the email has been read. A whole series of these could be created glowing and beeping from different notifications. One linked to twitter, one to an email, one to Facebook, and possibly even to trademe for when you have been out bided in an auction. 

Three photos

Three photos

Texturing

Texturing

Nearly all the textures that i ended up using in maya.

a lot of them i made myself with combining a mixture of textures and making them seamless.

The gun texture and model was found on Creativecrash website under free models for guns.

Playblast

Playblast

Fritzing

Fritzing

 

Created broken dummy for scene

Created broken dummy for scene

Having too many normal dummies in the scene wouldn't make it look right so i made a broken one that also would be the one to be shot breaking off at the pole.

 

Phyical sun sky

Physical sun sky

Physical sun sky is the best option for my scene but possibly even adding a few lights. Some tutorials that i found handy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgVLvTBZP88

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds5n0ZdtAy8

Animating jump

Animating jump

I want my character to be unique with its hops not making them all the same. He will end up crouching down longer or shorter depending on how high or far he jumps.

1. into a crouch

2. hold the crouch

3. popping most of the way back to standing position

4. translated in the air rotated and more standing up

5. rotated back to 90 translated back onto the ground

6. crouching back down 

7. expanding back up to upright position.

repeat but also can skip the 7th skip.

Python

Modeling scene

Modeling scene

Created a spinning ride for more depth into the scene. With some help from a class mate Julio he showed me how to make it continuously rotate at the same speed without key framing. Also made a circus tent with ropes coming down  that was duplicated from the barriers and stretched out.

Arduino

 Arduino
The code will be done with arduino

some code listings that i found as a guide.

int outPin = 12; // Output connected to digital pin 12
int mail = LOW; // Is there new mail?
int val; // Value read from the serial port

void setup()
{
    pinMode(outPin, OUTPUT); // sets the digital pin as output
    Serial.begin(9600);
    Serial.flush();
}

void loop()
{
    // Read from serial port
    if (Serial.available())
    {
        val = Serial.read();
        Serial.println(val);
        if (val == 'M') mail = HIGH;
        else if (val == 'N') mail = LOW;
    }

    // Set the status of the output pin
    digitalWrite(outPin, mail);
}

Modeling scene

Modeling scene

 Started to go into some details with modeling making barriers with creating rope even. Made a path then had a flat circle that duplicated into four circles in a square shape then extruded them along the path twisting them.