Intro Animation without sound

Here is the finished animation without sound. I am not happy with it yet though as it would only export as a quicktime file and there are line on the objects? I'll try it again to get it to export as an AVI file but so far i'm having no such luck.

Cabinet Background

I've finished the background or layout of my cabinet, the cherry tree. I also made a little video of its creation which I will include in the project!

Enjoy!

Ok so since I sussed out the morphing problem while I was waiting for the image to upload, now it flies when turbo smooth :D

Colour and Flight

Woop Woop! I've managed to animate my little hummingbird! And I've given it sone colour too! yay! The problem at the minute is that for some reason it wont fly when turbo smooth?? I'll have to figure that one out in a bit.

The Globe Development

Right, well after my session with Andy today on 3Dmax I now feel a little bit better about my development with 3Dmax. I have learnt how to make Glass and wood, I have placed the tree on a platform and a glass dome over the tree. It looks kind of pretty now, I just need to play around with the lighting now as I cant seem to get it right yet.

Feather Avatar

Another Idea I had was to use a feather that drifts and spins gently to the snow globe, I think this would be a nice, soft motion in keeping with the tone I want my work to have.

Butterfly Avatar

I could replace the Hummingbird with a butterfly avatar instead

First Avatar Idea

My very first Idea for an avatar was to have me sat down on the floor with the snow globe in my hands, I would then peer into the dome and the viewer would then be inside the dome and able to interact with the objects in there. I didn't pursue this as I was not as keen on this idea as I was the others, plus I think making a person would have been too difficult for me.

Hummingbird Avatar Designs

These are the initial Hummingbird sheets for my avatar, there is also a small storyboard on here for how I want it represented to the viewer.

Final Logo Design

I chose my three favourite Hummingbirds from the developed images (see earlier post). I have taken these designs and created them using photoshop for a higher quality image.

Although I found it difficult to choose which one I liked the most, I finally decided that the Green and Red version was my favourite. I wanted it to be the Blue version because it is really eye catching and I love the two blues together. Compared to the other two the Green and Light Green version seemed too plane to me. I chose the Green and Red one because I feel the colours work so much better, the Red makes it really eye catching and also represents a fiery / colourful character.

Even though I have chosen one colour scheme here, I think that I can use each of these in my cabinet as my logo has a distinctive shape so people will still be able to recognise it even if the colour of it changes.