YMCA -Hand in day

As per usual we have had to work to the wire and are watching premiere pro produce error after error in its feeble attempts to thwart our deadline. I will Take this time to evaluate the last 12 weeks.

I still think that I have much to improve with my working to shedule, I am dissapointed at how I shot myself in the foot in the first six weeks by not doing enough work in time. I have improved alot in the second half of the term and I am pleased with the amount that I have learnt in this time. I had little experience in 3D studio max (nil in animation) and although I had done a whole year of max in year two I never felt comfortable enough to explore the program in my own time. This term has been a steap learning curve for me and I am looking forward to the Christmas holidays where I can apply my newly found abilities in modelling and animation to my own projects.


Our group was unfortunate this term with a lot of sickness. I myself was off for a week or so with a cold which I unwittingly passed on to all other members. Amy and Keeley were at a similar if slightly lower skill level than me at the start of this module and I think they have done really well. Keeley however has been very sick in the last few weeks and has missed out on alot of the new things that we have discovered in max. I think she will struggle next semester if she is not able to catch up with all that we have learnt.

YMCA - Putting it all together

Me and Paul spent the whole day merging our animated characters into the scenes. fortunatly we did not have to reanimate them every time we merged them in as max has a function from which you can save and load animations.

I wrote a script for the voicover that Paul took back into his grotto of sound recording equipment. Althought I would have liked to be there when it was recorded as I feel that the sound is a very important aspect of the advert. The script is as follows. Each new line for each new scene in the advert:

• Here at the YMCA we have everything you need for a great night.
• Chill out with cool people.Dance the night away at our D&B nights.(y club)
• Join one of our many music groups.(Rock School, get some tips form the staff 7.30pm-9.30pm Every Thursday)
• Rock out at the Y club
• Get your own stuff heard at our open mick grime night.(also y ckub) 13-18s welcome at any of our events, come on down!!!

The sound was written to emphasise the sharp transitions. Hopefully with Pauls voice acting genious it will transfigure our humble animation into a near professional advert. Fingers crossed.

YMCA - Animation

With all the different models and variations in there respective files it is high time we started the animation. We have divided up the animation of the band to start with, Pual will be doing the Singer, Amy the Drummer and I the two guitarists. Unfortunatly Keeley was ill this week and was unnable to partake. Once I had got a grasp of the animation procces I really enjoyed simulating a guitarists movements. I regularly forgot to take 'autokey' off and messed up my animation many times but I am pleased with the outcome.

Above is an example of how I animated the character without the rest of the scene getting in the way. When the character was merged into the scene I used the 'selection set' to record the selection so that it could be recalled. Below is (hopefully) a few clips of the animations that I created this week: