Four Corners Animation

3/24/25

Four Cor Nors.avi

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How did organizing your project folders and keeping backups in Google Drive help you access your work for this assignment?

By organizing all my files, I was able to backtrack to a previous project to use for this project. Additionally, though I didn't need it, Google Drive allows me to keep a back-up of all my files in case I need to access items remotely or the computer I use is wiped.

How did adding a Path Constraint change the car’s movement? What adjustments did you make to ensure it followed the path correctly?

Using a path constraint caused the car to move along the spline from which the road was formed, meaning the car perfectly followed the road. It didn't, however, look like a car driving, though. To fix this, I simply checked the 'follow' and 'bank' checkboxes; the follow button made the car rotate accordling to the road, and the bank button made the car drift on the turns a little bit, as a normal car would.

After extending the animation to 24 seconds, how did the car’s movement change? Why was it necessary to use the Re-scale Time option instead of just increasing the frame count?

When extending the animation to take 24 seconds, the keyframe where the car finished it's cycle stayed the same. I personally manually moved the frame, but a faster way is to use the 're-scale time' button to automatically move the final keyframe. The entirety of the change made the car simply move around the road slower.

How did setting the frame rate to 30 fps instead of 29.97 fps (NTSC) impact your animation? What did you learn about how frame rate choices affect animation timing?

Honestly, I don't know. However, I do know that the animation would be slightly off if NTSC was used, as it is actually technically shorter than 30 seconds. Though I don't think the deficit is large enough to invoke a visibly shorter animation. I've learned, though, that frame rate can drastically affect the speed of an animation. If you want a short-and-fast animation, you can increase the framerate, and if you want a long-and-slow animation, you can decrease it; there are plenty of other combinations too (long-and-fast, short-and-slow, not to mention intermediate and in-between determinations.).

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