{"id":224,"date":"2014-04-17T21:42:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T21:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/?p=224"},"modified":"2014-04-17T21:42:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T21:42:37","slug":"intermediate-assignment-05-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/2014\/04\/17\/intermediate-assignment-05-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"[Intermediate] Assignment 05: Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAR 5304G\u00a0Digital Landscape Representation II: Static, Dynamic<br \/>\nAssignment 05: Animation<\/p>\n<p><b>Description<br \/>\n<\/b>Building on the narrative outlined in your storyboard (Assignment 03), use the native animation and atmospheric simulation capacities of 3ds Max to represent motion through space and\/or the passage of time within the study landscape.<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Workflow<br \/>\n+ <\/b>Set up a path constraint for your camera in 3ds Max. (See tutorial 9.1 in Cantrell and Yates.)<b><br \/>\n<\/b><b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">+ <\/b>Make additional modifications to the movement of the camera as desired.<b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><br \/>\n+ <\/b><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/docs.autodesk.com\/3DSMAX\/16\/ENU\/3ds-Max-Help\/index.html?url=files\/GUID-9473CAF3-AF73-4127-A98C-58ACEF01ACAC.htm,topicNumber=d30e278940\">Adjust the length of time<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> for your animation to 900 frames.<br \/>\n<\/span><b>+ <\/b>Output\u00a0the animation as a .avi file using the Render menus. (This will take the computer a while.) See also tutorials 26.3 and 26.4 in Cantrell and Yates.<\/p>\n<p><b>Deliverables<br \/>\n<\/b>+ One short animation with a clearly-considered narrative intent.<br \/>\n+ format:<b>\u00a0<\/b>.avi animation file,\u00a030 seconds\/900 frames @ 480\u00d7270 pixels<br \/>\n+ Consider in particular:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">+ The relationship between camera and target<br \/>\n+ Zoom and focus<br \/>\n+ The different kinds of camera movements outlined in Cantrell and Yates Ch. 9<br \/>\n+ The speed with which the camera moves, whether consistent or variable<br \/>\n+ Camera height<br \/>\n+ What is included and what is excluded from the viewframe<br \/>\n+ Whether you will use a single tracking shot that lasts 30 seconds or splice together several shorter shots from various positions<br \/>\n+ Whether atmospheric effects such as the settings of the daylight system or fog remain consistent or are variable across the animation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAR 5304G\u00a0Digital Landscape Representation II: Static, Dynamic Assignment 05: Animation Description Building on the narrative outlined in your storyboard (Assignment 03), use the native animation and atmospheric simulation capacities of 3ds Max to represent motion through space and\/or the passage of time within the study landscape. Workflow + Set up a path constraint for your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignments","category-intermediate","tag-animation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}