First animation seminar.. Not too bad!

Okay so, yesterday I started my next project which is Animation.

Brief:

Design, build and animate an amusement park, terror, haunted castle/house ride to fit into the Waverley Theatre with 2-3 scare scenes.

Doesn't sound too bad! 

So we started with some basics... learning how to use some new tools.

1) Using shapes, to create new shapes, by joining the shapes together. That make sense?

I used a series or rectangles and circles to show this and made a little car shape :D

2) Using the "Lathe" tool. Drawing a line then pressing the lathe tool creates a 3D shape. Lathes are used to create 3D shapes by a laser following the line you create, and it carves the shape into wood, metal, etc.

Taking these points into account, it will help me to create some different and new shapes that may come in useful for certain props in my animation.

I then went on to start creating the track shape, cart and animating the cart.

 

This shows the creating of my track. I used a simple shape to make the track so that it didn't over complicate the track shape.

 This is my practice cart so that I can get used to creating one and making it animate along the track path.

 This shows that I have managed to animate the cart along the track path ( which took quite a while as I didn't know where all the buttons were :( )

Here I had added a few props, a crooked fence outside adds the old effect to the haunted ride. I want to find a way of using some form of lighting to make the candles outside the front door look realistic.

Here I have animated a sliding door for the exit of the ride back to the start (which I am quite proud of :D)