Transition

We decided as a group that we would have a transition sequence between each scene and try to make the scenes flow into each other without the audience really noticing a change in animator. Myself and Dan worked together to create the transition between our scenes using the Australian flag. I used the camera to zoom in on the flag so that it covered the full screen and faded into Dan’s image of the flag.

My Australian Flag

Dans Australian Flag

The other transition was going to be a lot harder to create. It was between Tom’s Lawnmower Race animation and moving into the start of my golfing animation. Thinking up how we wanted to do the transition was very simple and we decided this as soon as we sorted out the order of each person’s individual scene. At the end of Tom’s race, a golf ball was going to bounce in from the side of the screen and land on the racing track. The camera would then zoom in on the ball and eventually then move to my scene with the golfer ready to start his putt. We weren’t too sure how we were going to do this part of the transition.

I decided that I would import my scene into Tom’s and could then work on the transition. I placed my scene strategically at the end of the racing track where the golf ball landed. This would make it easier for the transition to take place between the race track and golfing green. We worked together on trying to get this transition to look realistic and take into consideration all of the parts of both our animations.

After Tom’s scene ended, we focussed the camera in onto the ball so that the background was of the racing track and only the ball in sight. After a short time of focussing in this way, the camera raises up and heads across to the golf green. We tried to position the camera to finish identically on top of where the next camera started for my scene but unfortunately we had some issues with the render sizes / aspect ratio’s and the camera angles. We were pretty close with where it ended up so were pretty happy with the outcome.

The only issue we found with the Transition between our scenes was that because of the shape of our individual models, it became an issue trying to angle the camera so that it focussed on the parts of the scene that existed and not the skybox that was created as the background. Unfortunately you do realise that obviously the golf green was created rather than a whole golf course but this could not be helped.