Capstone Project
This is my capstone project; the final project I'm working on before graduation that shows what I have learned. We were able to choose whatever subject or portion of the animation pipeline as our main focus, so I chose to center my project on 3D modeling. I wanted to build a video walkthrough of a miniature city, modeled after Amsterdam or Venice; ultimately I decided to model my city after Amsterdam. I intentionally made no two buildings the same. After viewing images of the Amsterdam canals, I noticed houseboats and boats were common so I added those to my environment as well.
My overall idea developed as I went along; in my original proposal the viewer was going to travel around a circular canal and the camera would end up back where it started, however, due to time constraints, I needed to rethink my plan. Rather than going in a circular canal, I decided to focus on traveling from Point A to Point B. The video starts in the center of a canal and the viewer travels from one side of the city to the other. The clip plays through twice so that the viewer can view both sides of the canal. The original proposal can be seen below.
