Evaluation

The overall process of creating the characters and putting them together has been enjoyable. Researching int o different characteristics was the most interesting as there are things that people do without even realising they are doing them. To apply those characteristics to a character almost makes them human.

When I had decided to use a cat and a fish for my characters it seemed natural to me to have the cat as the baddy. This is possibly because I own a cat and know just how evil they can be. Once processing the animation I almost felt as though I had missed a trick and maybe should have gone with the fish being evil. This is something I will consider in the future. Instead of looking at a task with one though I will expand it to consider all posibilities.

The skinning and boning was the hardest part for me and it is annoying that I had to leave this out as i feel it would have given my character more life. Although I used the eyes and mouth I feel that having the cat sneak around the bowl would have given more insight to the character and how she acts. It was most annoying as during the lesson when we were shown skinning and boning I felt I had got on with it very well and felt as though this was shown in my blog post. Perhaps if I had of persisted and tried again it may have worked but after several attempts and hours trawling the internet for an answer I felt under pressure to get the animation done and so left it out.

I focused on the eyes the most and wanted to show the characters chilling look. There are several points within the animation where the eyes widen and the nasty stare turns worse. I chose for the eyes to change colour as I felt this would be far more effective.

I chose the Four Seasons music to play in the background as I felt it worked well. The music gives a calming sense at the same time as an exciting feeling of what is happening.

The animation did not come together as well as i had hoped but unfortunately there was nothing I could do about it. If I had allowed myself more time then perhaps I would have worked out an alternative way of making my character move.

I do find using 3DS Max difficult to use and it is possible that my lack of skills did not help towards the outcome of the animation. All being said this is the one 3D module that I have truly enjoyed doing and I feel that if I build on what I have learnt I could create more outside of University.