Juttu - Collaborative Project

When reviewing this first pass with Valeriia, we both saw that the video is super jumpy. This is happening because the animation of the camera loop is only 3 seconds long, but I was lengthening it to 1 minute and 30 seconds. Thus, the camera movements looks snappy. To fix this, I searched the solution on Google and found out that I needed to change the frame rate of the camera path from 100 (which produced the 3 second render) to 1440 (which produces a 1 minute render). Doing this allowed the camera to go around the path exactly once and cover the entire scene. I exported these scenes as a PNG sequence and imported them into After Effects. I added fade-in and fade-out to the beginning and end of the video to make it look smooth.

Upon looking at the refined version, Valeriia proposed and I agreed that the video looks good but we needed to get rid of the fire-hydrant at the beginning to make it more of a nature-focused walk. Thus, I replaced it with a tall cactus. Then, I proposed the idea of adding birds to this just for a little variety. I found animated bird models on Sketchfab and downloaded them as FBX to import into the scene.

Attribution:

• Flying birds: "Bird" (https://skfb.ly/oHOSz) by a Blender Artist.

• Orange Bird: "Bird Orange" (https://skfb.ly/oGo8E) by Wen Yeh.

After I finished my portion of this project, Valeriia took over to put together sound, specifically nature-themed ambiance with bird chirps, bug buzzes, wind, and footsteps crunching noises. The final result is shown below.