Door Animation

Lesson 3 Final

*I swear that I have a ground texture, it's just not coming up in the pictures for some reason

Lesson 3 (as of September 20, 2013)

Taking Shots at Tiffany's

Extreme long shot:
  A wider frame value in which subjects in the frame are small; a building, cityscape.

Extreme long shot in opening of Breakfast at Tiffany's

Long shot: 
  A long shot (sometimes referred to as a full shot or a wide shot) typically shows the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surroundings.

Long(ish) shot of Aurdey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's

Full shot:
   A type of long shot which includes the human body in full, with the head near the top of the frame and the feet near the bottom.

Full shot of Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face

 Mid shot:
   A medium shot is a camera angle shot from a medium distance.

Mid shot of Breakfast at Tiffany's

Close up:
   A detailed view of a person or object, usually without much context provided.

Close up of Breakfast at Tiffany's

Extreme close up:
  A minutely detailed view of an object or a person. An extreme close-up of an actor generally includes only his/her eyes, or his/her mouth.

Extreme Close up of Audrey Hepburn at Breakfast at Tiffany's

Bird's eye:
   A shot in which the camera photographs a scene from directly overhead.

Bird's Eye of New York (Sort of)

High angle:
   A shot in which the subject is photographed from above.

High angle of building in New York, c. 1960

Low angle:
   A shot in which the subject is photographed from below.

Low angle from opening scene of Breakfast at Tiffany's

Eye level:
   The placement of the camera approximately 5 to 6 feet from the ground corresponding to the height of an observer on the scene.

Eye Level shot of Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's

I added an an actual clock to my clocktower

Huzzah.

Lesson 2 (Finished)

I found the door very easy to make and even experimented  a little bit with the Insert Edge Loop Tool and  Extrude to (attempt to) create a little bit of design on the door. I did not like using the curve tool as much, but I can see how it could be useful.

Lesson 1 (Finished)

 Techniques:  
 To build this alleyway/city, I used the NURBS Primitives shapes, the move tool, the scale tool, the rotate tool, and the component select tool.

 Difficulties:
I occasionally found it difficult to navigate through the dense wilderness of buttons that is Autodesk Maya, but outside of this, I had few difficulties.

Successes:

 I particularly fond of my lightposts and my  courthouse at the end of the street, though making the entire town was pretty fun.

Lesson 1, Week 1