Completed Scene

The scene is finally completed. All the clips have been put together to create a typical air show on the beach including plane sound effects.

If im honest, im not a hundred percent pleased with the end result of the animation. I would like to have created more planes, but ran out of time. I spent so long creating a big beach for the planes to fly along, that I had not much time to create a series of different planes. In the end I had to turn my attention to the animating side of the scene and use the two planes I had come up with.

The scene does show evidence of boning (plane banner), but not as much as I wanted. If I had of done a person, then of course there would have been a lot more boning in the scene.

A part of the scene which I am particularly proud of is the smoke effect from the planes. This was done using the particle systems. Adding the smoke into the scene really improved it, making it seem more realistic.

I am a bit annoyed now that I didn't put people into my scene. If I had known about bipeds I probably would have put people on the beach, or pilots in the planes. Because I only found out how to do bipeds late on, nearing the hand in date, I had no time to give it ago. It was a case of animating what I had.

I do feel I did the best I could with my knowledge and the time I had using max. I am overall happy with the outcome of the animation. If I could do it again, I would put people into the animation, as well as more planes. I think this would improve the scene greatly. Never mind, the scene is done, and in the end looks quite good.