Animation Week 7 - 8 exercises

This is  a handling exercise. This allows us to create an object that we can use to pivot the 3D object.  This can be helpful when needing to animate an object but also  need to pivot the object in various different positions or multiple movements. A great example of this is using to animate  a door and door handle. 

Down below is another exercise where I learnt how to use  motion path. 

This tool allows you to attach a 3D Object to a  curve and it allows it follow the path that is created.  

This image shows it in action.  This tool is very useful since it allows you to animate 3d objects very fast. It can be good to animate the Star Wars ships since you will be able to create crazy loops and curves and the ship will follow.  There is a problem with this in that object seems to accelerate during the animation. This can be fixed by smoothing out the graph line in the graph editor. 

You can add cameras to the scene and animate them so you will be able to get the camera to follow the 3d objects.  This allows you to create more dynamic animations.  

Now this exercise is simple. I starting by  creating a sphere.  Then I  had to reverse the faces of the sphere which means all the faces are no longer outside , they are are inside of the sphere.  Down below all the faces are reversed inside the sphere. 

This allows you to put a texture inside the sphere , which will can be used to create a sky dome.  This method allows you create space environment inside the sphere.  This is a very quick method too and straight forward to use.