Animation (week10-11)

After group meetings, we identified how to create animation. When we have watched the works of Robert, we think that he has some experience of the animation so this part is completed for Robert. First, we found a video of 2 stroke engine works onto the Internet. When the group members have watched video and understand the 2 stroke engine work principle. Then we began to prepare animation. We divided our animation into 3 parts: part one was the introduction, part two was the actual demonstration of the engine, and part three was the ending of the animation. We choose the PAL (24fm/s).And then Robert had positioned the lighting and the camera he produced this opening shot. We made the first part of animation is Introduction of the engine model. In this part of the animation we need to find a good position of camera, through a series of debugging, finally we completed this part of the animation. The following video shows is that the first part of our animation.The second part is the hardest and most important part in the animation. In order to do this part we have spent some time. When the production process, our group members found some problems. The first thought was to animate the piston. The only problem was that the piston shaft did not match the cam. Robert and Mike have watched animation many times, but still have not found the problem. The other members do not understand this problem. Finally，Mike found out the problem was with the key frames so they were out of place. The next stage was to do the top of the piston animation and to start animating the flow of liquids and gases within the engine. Robert decided to use ‘planes’ with textures. The following video show is that the second part of our animation. The last part of the animation is to create scenes animation. This part is needs of the Lawnmower models which I made it and the Kiel making a scene. This is the last part of the animation. It looked more vivid, and then used audio files which made in Mike. We will complete the animation.