The assignment set was to create a 3D alternate reality/ fantasy environment. The tasks is to create a animation of this fantasy environment. I also have to apply some camera movement to the animation. When I first began to think about my fantasy environment, I had two ideas. one of my ideas was to create a fantasy world kids environment. I imagine the environment would have talking animals that can communicate with humans and magical floating objects like numbers, letters and shapes. My other idea was a afterlife fantasy environment which focuses on the idea of life being a virtual reality simulation . A person is woken up from a simulated reality on Earth and remembers what the real world is like. out of my two ideas, I chose the afterlife fantasy environment. I had a lot of ideas, and huge expectations of what I wanted to achieve when working on my assignment. I had to be very realistic about what I could and couldn’t achieve. I came up with a huge building which was too large to fill and in the end it was an empty building. I realised I should have just focused on one space the outside. I decided to work on the outside environment and input in these little aliens looking type buildings. I wanted it to look like aliens had invaded. I think the original outside space I had created went better with the inside interior as it looked less cluttered. In the end I ran out of time as I overestimated the workload. I had planned to make objects that I didn’t get time to complete. I found it really difficult to focus on one thing at a time. I tend to keep on coming out with new ideas about what I want to do rather than sticking to the plan, which takes me off course in and I realise you have to focus on one element at a time and stick to the plan to not overstrain my body.
I found a blog the most time-consuming as it was a lot to think about what exactly I’m documenting. I also found it very time consuming to capture all the information as I went along developing the project. My favourite part of the project was texturing items. As I love the way the texture brings the object to life. It really makes the object stand out or look very realistic. One difficult part of my project was for me the fact that I would have loved to record better but this was the part that I had the least time to work on. In Future I will plan more time record more accurately. I feel I have worked very hard and have achieved my goal to create a fantasy environment I feel I have demonstrated that I’m capable of designing a model, texturing, animating objects, recording moving the camera, texture painting and rendering. I also add lighting to the scene.
