Following UV unwrapping and texturing the model, I then moved on to animating the model.
Firstly, I decided on the lighting. I decided I wanted to go for a bright skydome light in Maya to ensure that all the colours had the vivid effect I was looking for and is similar to Lego’s style and to ensure all of the detail on the plane could be seen.
Once happy with the lighting, I used the curve tool to create the first part of my animation. I created a curved line above my plane, switched to front view for the camera and revealed the vertex on the curve. I then adjusted the height, switched to animation mode and connected my pod to the curve on a motion path.
Once connected, I then adjusted the settings to ensure the pod was going at an appropriate speed around the curve, adjusted the render settings so that the correct images were rendered for the animation.
Once rendered into the folder I chose, I brought all the images into Premiere Pro, with a length of 1 frame on a timeline at 24 FPS and combined them.
Following this, I then went back into Maya and used the keyframe tool to show the pod landing onto the plane. I then did the same with this and rendered the images and brought them into Premiere Pro.
Once combined I added some light music for the first part and landing noises for the second part (music from freesound.org (Freesound, 2012).
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