Week 10

I started to animate my character to the storyboard that I had created. I did this by moving the bones in my character using the Rotate and Move tool to get the character into the correct position.

Once I moved the character into the right position then selecting Auto Key I inserted keyframes for each movement I did to correspond with my scene.

I had some diffculties with my movement of my character like when I move my characters head the eyes started come out of their eye socket. This happen the same with the nose with movement, I found this annoying I had to re-link some parts together to fix this.

Week 9

This week I went on to create my scene for my animation I started off by creating four planes to create ground and the backgrounds of my scene. Once happy I group them together so that I did not accidently move them while creating the rest of my scene.
I created the sand pit using the Line tool to create the desired shape of the sand pit then using Extrude Modifier to give it depth. Then I used the Move tool to place the sand pit into place, and then I used the Sphere to create a hill. Then I used Move tool to place the hill into place, then I created a Circle and used an Extrude Modifier then place the circle into place, and using the Boolean I use the Circle to make a hole in the hill for the golf ball to go into.

I created the flag pole by using a Cylinder to create the pole and a Sphere to create the knob on top of the pole. The using the Line tool I create the flag shape then using the Extrude Modifier to give it shape. I used the Move and Rotate tools to place these parts together then I grouped theses parts together. I then placed the flag pole on top of the hill next hole in the hill using the Move tool.

I created Anubis’s staff by creating a Cylinder for the handle and a Box tool for the base, then using a Sphere and using the Scale tool to make design on top. I create another Sphere smaller the other one then using Boolean to create the hole in the design of the bigger Sphere. I used the Move and Rotate tool to place the piece together then I grouped them together.

I used Omni Light to create the lighting in my scene to make it the sun light as my scene is outside, and then place the light in one of the corners in the scene. The in the light Modifier I added and edited the Shadow Parameters to add shadow to my scene.

Week 8

I added some final touches to my character like the inside of my characters mouth which was done by copying Vertex’s with the from the mouth and joining them together using attached. I also had to create a small sphere inside the mouth as for some reason you could see the background in the gap of the moth even though I had checked all the Vertex’s were joined correctly.

With my character near enough complete I had to give a story to animate him, I decided to go for something a little different as if what would Anubis do on a golf course as I would think Anubis would be business type as he is the god of death, so for leisure golf is common relaxation.
So my story starts with Anubis walking up around a golf course then he suddenly sees a golf ball on the ground. He examines the golf ball then looks around at the golf course and sees the flag and hole that the ball is meant to go down. He then stops and thinks about what he is meant to do with the ball then when he gets his idea he gets ready to but his plan into action.

Anubis then summons his staff so that it appears in his hand, I thought this would show he has immortal powers and give him again godly posture for my character and would be a lot better than using a golf club as he would not do things that way. Once he has summoned his staff he would get himself ready to take a shot. Anubis then swings at the golf ball then the golf ball moves and goes straight into the sand trap.

As Anubis is a god I thought he would not be best pleased that he has failed in what is attempting to do, so I would go to scene of him not looking best pleased of what has happened. Then as Anubis is a god he would use is god like powers to his advantage. So Anubis uses he powers to levitate the ball and place the ball into the hole. The reason why he would is again to show that Anubis is not just a normal mortal but a god and this should add appeal to the audience.

I did have other ideas for Anubis like working on a computer or another everyday thing like watching television or making breakfast. But I thought this would be the better idea for my character as it would give me an opportunity to try and get some different movements out of my character.

Week 7

I carried on with boning of my character as I had done last week and looked in and researched more about boning form internet tutorials. Once I was happy with the bones I edited the Envelopes of each of the bones to the best of my ability to stop the skin from deforming when the character moved a part of its body.

Once I was happy with boning and envelopes I went onto to create a skirt for my character I created the skirt by creating a Plane then a small Sphere that was roughly the size of my characters waist. Then I added a Cloth modifier to Plane and made the collision path the small sphere to create the skirt shape.

I had to do this a couple of time to get the right effect and also on a couple of occasions the computer crashed due to errors with the modifier.