Week 7 Exercise

Task 1: Emphasize the Theme of 'Space'

This week's tutorial was completed in the last week's tutorial as there was no lecture or tutorial for this week. However, I will reflect on how I went with it in this week's blog post.

The task was to emphasize the theme of space using the images provided. To do this, we had to mask parts of photographs and make them 3D layers. We then created a camera and experimented with moving it accross the scene.

Overall, this exercise was exactly the same as the second half of Week 6, the only difference being that we had to concentrate a lot more on 'Z-space'. To do this, the masked out parts of the photographs would be moved away from the actual picture (or first layer) and then we would move the camera around these layers to experiment with 'Z-space'.

I went quite well with this exercise, although I'm still having a little bit of difficulty with understanding the ways of the camera. I understand the basic functions of it, to pan, orbit and now to experiment with 'Z-space' but I think I could do with more practise on how this could look visually appealing in animations. At the moment, all experiments that I conduct with the camera all look like experiments and not professional animations.