Banner_Test

Tried a quick test with a banner.

using N-cloth

Logo a bit stretched.

Butterfly.

The Rigging of the Butterfly.

I first had to model the wings and the body of the butterflies. We decided to keep the body very simple and just have the wings show they are butterflies. I used a template to outline the wings.

I then needed to rig the butterfly, so i used a deformer to get the curve on the wings across both wings, as i first used two deformers and i couldn't get them to work together, i then gave each wing two joints each so that the wings would move.

I then with the help from Keith and the book of an essential introduction to character rigging, i managed to use Set driven key and create a new attribute called FLAP to allow the butterfly to move, and that way there is only one attribute to animate, so it should work out easier in the long run.

Underneath is a short clip of the butterfly flapping. I think 6-7 frames per flap looks best to use when it comes to animate it flying. I must also remember to make it move up and down.

Problem with moving the whole butterfly together would mean that the wings would come apart, managed to fix this by going in the hyper graph editor and moving the polygons out of the parent.

Meeting with Rave Live

We had a meeting with the rave lives yesterday, and we showed them our storyboards we created. They said to us that as we had created three of very similar ones, that they wouldnt fit in with the other ones that other people were doing, so they just decided on one ident. Which was collaboration.

They liked the idea of the butterflies, and said it might also be possible to use the ident for the hologram version in Musion.

We will have to put the logo on a white background however for this so that it will stand out.

So we have decided to try make the logo into a banner, and a cloth.

The colours have to be really bright for it to work.

The idea of the fridge magnets they liked and said we didnt have to use the LUCIA text for the writing, and just make it look like fridge magnets.

Rochelle and i then decided to make the magnets stick to the background and have the butterflies fly off screen after they have brought on the LOGO.

Ill then need to work out how to make the logo be still and make the cloth not move. Which should be a simple job of key framing it.

I will be animating the butterflys as well as modelling them and rigging them. Colours will be the same as the rave live colours, and for the butterflies we will be using slightly different colors.