Conclusion

This project has taught me new skills in 3ds max. These skills include: Bipeds, Skinning, lighting effects, Animating, Lip syncing, adding sound and Adobe Premier Pro. Although I have allot to learn I think I have come along way from the last semester.

There are a few things that I would probably do different in my animation if I had the chance, the first is that I would of likes of used more camera angles in the scenes, also it would of been nice if the cameras paned in and out for close ups. As I had no knowledge in this I felt I would only use it if I had time but unfortunately I didn't.

The Bear Character was apart of my original sketches and story but because of the lack of time, I had to cut him from the story. The Bear was going to add a bit comedy to the scenes and also showcase a few more animating skills, but sadly it wasn't to be.

Overall I have enjoyed this module and I'm quite happy with the outcome of my animation, four months ago when I was struggling with my Old man model and I thought that I would never of achieved a finished piece of work, so I'm pretty chuffed!

Final Render

To complete my animation I needed to connect my four scenes together. I did this by using Adobe Premiere Pro to make one MP4 file. There was just a couple things I needed to add : A title Screen, A End screen and I also needed to fade the Animations and sounds in and out so there wasn't a sharp start on end to any of the scenes.

I wanted to keep the intro/outro as simple as possible so that it made more emphasis on the animation. I choose a font that I felt matched the feel of the story and then just gave it a plain black background. In the outro I faded in the main moral on the fable which I think finishes of the story well.