In today’s lesson with Matt, he showed the class how to create an infinite white background and how to use lights in a scene and what each individual light (Directional light, point light, spot light and three point) does. They were all quite straight forward.
After the mini task of researching about the lights I went on to chip away at my animation. As I said before I am starting to animate without exaggeration so the animation looks pretty plain. In this lesson however I started my animation again on a saved file which wasn’t animated. This is because when I was animating; I was animating on an angle so if I wanted the robot to move I would have to move it right then down with the handles. This was too much work and the animation looked clunky and looked like it was jumping around.
In starting again the whole animation is a lot easier because to move the robot in a straight line I can pull to forward handle and it will move forward instead of pulling the right and forward handles.
During the lesson Matt suggested to me I should make the robot stumble in some way like it falls over. I am going to try and do this however the robot has wheels so I don’t know as of yet how I am going to implement the idea. If it is possible I will try to do it however. I will upload a vimeo video soon.
Next Gen Work 