Scene 3

To set up scene 3 I needed to create an animation with the neon lights befor I merged with the police building.

I have created a loop setting the a key frame at 0, then move to 10 on the timeline and rotated the text 180 degrees, then repeated this at 20.

Then by using the curve editor and selecting the param curve : relative repeat

 

this created a loop on the video

 

 

 

This was imported into the police building file, making sure I selected the merge option and group the elements of the light. once imported I made a copy and changed the text.

 

 

This screen shot shows the two neon and the imported vehicle.  I added two target cameras, placing the target onto the points that I wanted to be within the camera view at all times.  By placing one target inside the building I was able to move the camera and view the building where ever it was moved too.

 

I had problems with the vehicle attached to a spline on a constraints path, so I created a dummy and  attached that to the constraint path, then attached the vehicle to the dummy.  This meant that I could animate the vehicle within the keyframes without effecting the path.

 

I also decided to change the direction of the vehicle, so changing the story board,  I felt that the scene worked better with the vehicle coming in from above and moving out of shot lower down the building, this also meant that I could include the neon within the animation.

I created a dummy from the helpers toolbar drew a cuboid and named this.  Created a path constraint with the dummy and the spline. Then attached the vehicle to the dummy.  I was able to move the vehicle to where I wanted knowing that this will still follow the path.

To place the dummy (and vehicle) on to a selected point on the spline I selected the object with the path constraint in this case the dummy, then under the motion, path parameters changed the '% along path' option, once in place creating a key frame.  This works, moving the dummy with the move tool means it will jump back and forth when trying to animate.

As I have fine tuned the camera movement, selecting the best camera settings to give the view that I wanted, I have know created a scene show casing the building and the neons, now to include the vehicle within the scene.

I have decided to render smaller parts of this whole file this means that I can manipulate the vehicle within these smaller time spans. As I will not be changing the camera angles I should be able to bring the files together within PremierPro. I set up the vehicle and rendered these scenes and brought them together in PremierPro

For the background I tried various things using this bitmap image but they didn't work

 

Source of gif : milkshake.com,[online] available at : http://mlkshk.com/p/2IB1 accessed 30/4/2013

 

 

using the dome or plane but the bitmap would not fit did not give the right effect.

 

Therefore I decided to use an environment map on the background using the same bitmap as scene 1 and 2, I felt this worked better.