[Personal] - Final Scene: Introduction

Here's a few screenshots of the opening animation.


It opens with the camera overlooking the "VISIT ESSEX" grass on the grass floor. In order to create this effect I had to create a single blade of grass polygon and then use the scatter tool to create seveal thousand copies. As it can be seen from the screenshot, I ended up with well over 100,000 polygons.


2 lawn mowers the drive over the text. I created 2 planes which were hidden underneath the grass floor and were animated to rise when the lawn mower drove over it. This created the effect of the grass being cut.



The camera then zooms in on the text and then moves forwards along the grass floor. I had to do this in order to create an effective transition into the next scene, rather than just having a simple cut. I also had to make one of the lawn mowers invisible to avoid it being seen by the camera when it zooms along the floor.



The scene then ends with the camera a couple of inches away from the characters.