Saturday 26 March 2011

Pulling the curtain


A curtain was created using a plane.  A pole was created from a cylinder and curtain hooks created from Torus rings.

Many segments 8*8 applied to the Plane.



Open the Reactor Toolbar (Left click blank area on right of top toolbar).

Select the curtain and assign a cloth modifier. (Identified as a t-shirt icon).

The curtain now resides in the cloth collection.

Select the vertex mode of the cloth modifier in the stack and click on the plus sign.  Click on the vertex sub-object level and scroll down to the constraints area. Click on 'Attach to rigid body'.

A box then appears that allows the rigid body part to be named.  Rename as RT1.

Click on vertex mode and select a few vertices on the curtain plane which should turn red.
In the 'Attach to rigid body' box click on the None button and then click on the curtain hook.
The hook name RT1 will then appear on the none button. The process is repeated for the other hooks.

The hooks are then placed into the rigid body collection by selecting the torus rings names from the list and selecting add.

Select preview and confirm that the cloth is attached to the hooks.

Animation

Click on the third curtain hook.

Increase the time frame to 250 frames.

Select the autokey (trackbar turns red) and place the slider at frame 150.

Move the third curtain hook to meet the second hook.

Move the slider to frame 250.

Move the second curtain hook to meet the first hook.

Move the keyframe 0 to keyframe 30 for a one second delay before the curtain opens.

Highlight each hook one by one ensuring that in the property editor ‘ unyieilding’ is checked.

Scene 6

The sixth scene included the Drax globe, bolinger bottle and spray of bubbles which are seen travelling towards the Earth.

scene 5


The production of the fifth scene involved the importing of the Drax globe and the champagne bottle.


A camera  is used to zoom the view of the spray of bubbles from the champagne bottle that propel the Drax globe. The champagne bubbles were created by using the super spray tool which allows particle generation, size and motion to be selected.






The bubbles were given a glass refractive surface by choosing the phong setting under the shader basic parameters, changing the specular level to 84, the glossiness to 10 and setting the diffuse colour to the mid point between black and white. Under the maps rollout raytrace was selected on the refraction map box and the slot dragged to the bubbles.
The animation was created by setting the bubbles, champagne bottle and Drax globe close to the camera. Autokey is then set and the objects moved to their finishing point furthest from the camera where autokey is then deselected.

Wednesday 23 March 2011

Scene 4


The production of the fourth scene started with the imported model of the space station and the Drax globe. The Drax globe was positioned close to the Space Station and a camera is then used to zoom the image of the Drax globe to see a close up shot of Jaws and girlfriend inside the globe.

The image of jaws and girlfriend inside the Drax globe is created by mapping the image onto the sphere and applying a UVW modifier which enables the image to map correctly to the sphere.

Scene 3

The production of the third scene started with the space shuttle model, deleting the reference plane and using the environment map for the star background.


The Space Station was introduced into the scene by opening the Space Station model and saving as an exported file.
Import was then used to select the exported file enabling the space station to appear in the scene.
The Moon was created by selecting a sphere, clicking on diffuse and mapping / dragging the image of the Moon to the sphere.

A path constraint was used to enable the Space Shuttle to travel toward the Space Station, with the addition of a camera to view the scene. Although the Space Shuttle object may be flipped to change the orientation as it travels along the path line, the overall direction may be changed by using the rotate tool to rotate the path line in the required direction.

Monday 14 March 2011

Scene 2



The production of the second scene was started by selecting the space shuttle model and deleting the reference plane.














The Earth was created by selecting a sphere, clicking on diffuse and mapping / dragging the image of the Earth to the sphere.
















A star background was downloaded from the internet and with environment / effects selected, the environment map of the star background was loaded enabling the background to appear in the rendered image.

















Use of the Path Constraint

In the top viewport the line tool was first selected to draw a line projecting from the Earth. Clicking on Animation / Constraints / Path constraint, a dotted line appears which is then connected from the object (Space Shuttle) to the line. When the animation is played the Shuttle travels along the line path.
A Camera was placed at the end of the line that enabled the Space Shuttle to be viewed as it travelled from the Earth towards the Camera.





Sunday 13 March 2011

Scene 1



In the front viewport a three sided shape was drawn out using the line spline tool. The shape was then extruded to create the walls of a room that forms part of the opening scene, in which 'M' is talking to Bond.
The images of the 'M' and Bond characters were first opened in Photoshop and using the magic wand tool, set to a tolerance of 60, the outside area of the image is selected.
A new layer is created and filled with a black colour.
A new layer is then created and filled with a white colour (ensure that transparency is set to none) and the layer is placed below the black layer.

The image is effectively a negative of the original 'M' image with a black colour surround and a white colour in the place of the 'M' image. The image is saved as this will be used later to provide a shadow mask when the image is mapped.







The material editor is then selected and the 'M' image mapped onto the material slot by clicking on diffuse colour.















The previously created black and white image is then loaded into the maps / opacity slot and the 'M' image is now on a black background instead of a white blackground.
A reference plane is then created and the material slot is dragged to the plane where the map becomes visible in the viewport after clicking the show standard map in viewport chequered box.

Friday 11 March 2011

Moonraker Scenes and Artefacts

Moonraker Scenes                                               Artefacts


Scene One

Bond and M in office.                                        Create office environment

                                                                          Diffuse colour map of Bond
                                                                          and 'M' on plane.
                                                                        


Scene Two

Wide angle view of Space Shuttle travelling               Space Shuttle model.
away from Earth
.                                                                                Earth modelled as a
                                                                                 sphere and mapped.
                                                                                  Environment Map of
                                                                                  star background.
                                                                                 


Scene Three

Wide angle view that zooms in as                               Space Shuttle model.
Space Shuttle approaches the Space Station.              Space Station model.
                                                                                   Moon modelled as a
                                                                                   sphere and mapped.
                                                                                    
                                                                                     Environment Map of
                                                                                      star background.
                                                                                    


Scene Four

Camera pans and zooms in on Drax globe to             Drax Globe.
see close up shot of Jaws and girlfriend.  
                                                                                      Projected map image of
                                                                                      Jaws and Girlfriend on a
                                                                                      plane.
                                                                                                                                                                                 
                                                                                     Environment Map of
                                                                                     star background.
                                                                                      


Scene Five

Camera pans around to see Champagne bottle and        Champagne bottle.
spray of bubbles propelling globe.                                      Spray of bubbles.
Earth pans into field of view.  
                                                                                         Earth modelled as a
                                                                                         sphere and mapped.
                                                                                         Environment Map of
                                                                                         star background.
                                                                                        


Scene Six

Camera zooms out to see shuttle following                     Drax Globe.
Drax globe towards the Earth.    
                                                                                          Champagne bottle
                                                                                          Spray of bubbles.
                                                                                          Earth modelled as a
                                                                                          sphere and mapped.

Chosen film idea

Operation Bolinger

Scene opens with Bond in 'M's office.

'M' - “A shuttle has gone missing including several cases of your favourite Bolinger champagne.
Your assignment, operation Bolinger, is to retrieve the shuttle but more importantly the
champagne”.

'M' picks up the phone. “Miss Moneypenny, see that Bond gets the example case of Bolinger 69”.

Cut to space scene.

Shuttle approaches space station.

Bond sees Drax's globe leaving space station with Jaws, girlfriend and champagne bottle bubbles propelling the globe.

Bond turns the space shuttle and chases after Jaws.

Tuesday 1 March 2011

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London: Virgin Books Limited.

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