DInoSAUria IslAnd

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• Game trailer
• Fictional PC game
• Fictional storyline
• Real/existing species of dinosaurs
• 3D characters landscape
• End Product 1m 10s trailer for web and DVD

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• Planning story objectives
• Key features
• Storyboarding
• Research
• Modelling rigging
• Texturing
• Pre-visualisation
• Post-production rendering
• Music
• DVD authoring, insert label design
• Compressing for web

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• Isolated island
• Intelligent dinosaurs
• Simple buildings and weapons
• Main purpose - choose a side (herbivores or
  carnivores) and engage in battle
• The outcome is dependant on what the player wants
  to achieve
• Trailer reveals only a few key scenes to keep the
  audience intrigued

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• Sketching out ideas scenes

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• 4 types of dinosaurs
• 3 locations
• Rigging before texturing

Character Animation Technologies (CAT)
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Ornitholestes
Parasaurolophus
Stegoceras
Spinosaurus
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Forest
Village
Island
Island Displacement Map
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• Real photographs

Tree Diffuse Map
Alpha
Flowers
Fence
Leaves
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• UVW Unwrap
• Painted in Photoshop

Character Texture
UVW Coordinates
Bump Map
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• Character Animation Technologies (CAT)
• RPF files for Depth of Field

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• Preview character camera movement
• Allowed post-production work

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• Editing
• Joining scenes together
• Timing
• Effects (Tricks)
• Masking
• Depth of field
• Music
• Clips from Walking with Dinosaurs

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• Extension activity ?
• Auto-play

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• Successes
• Solo project
• 3D for video
• Failures
• Inexperienced
• Quality

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• CAT
• Pros Easy to rig intuitive digit controls
• Cons Unstable walk cycle near impossible
• Alternate solution 3Ds Max bones
• Depth of Field using RPF
• Pros Single file no post-production mess DOF
  easy to control
• Cons Produces halos
• Alternate solution Distance fog atmosphere
  blend render elements
• Music
• Unable to compose
• Took clips from existing soundtrack

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