[Personal] - Linking the Opening and Main Scene Together

When I first came up with the storyboard, I didnt really come up with an effective transition between the opening scene and the main race scene. However, messing around with the camera in the main scene gave me the inspiration that I needed to come up with such a way.

I decided that once the lawn mowers had driven over the words, the camera should swoop downwards and then quickly pan forwards. I would then start off the main scene with the camera in the same position while panning forwards and eventually focusing up to reveal the race.

I did have a few problems with this. The first one being that in the opening scene, one of the lawn mowers were in the way of the camera panning forwards. So once it had moved off screen, I had to make it invisible so that the camera would not see it.

The hardest part was getting the two scenes to link perfectly. I had to make sure that the camera ended in the openeing scene in the same position as it started in the main scene. It took a few tries but I think that I eventually got there. There is a little jump when the 2 scenes are linked together, but nothing majorly obvious.

The lighting casued a little bit of trouble too. Getting the same light effect in both scenes was hard, and I still dont think that I managed to pull it off. However, there is still time to perfect it.