Changes After Feedback

After getting some feedback from the animations I rendered so far, I decided to change a couple of things.


Duration


Since the beginning of this module the limit for the duration of the total animation was 30 seconds but when I put together all the scenes I rendered the total time goes over 40 seconds. Also, I was thinking of, after the explosion of the X-Wing, adding two more scenes in which the X-Wing would crash in the snow.


However, due to the 30 seconds limitation, I will have to, not only skip this last two scenes, but also remove some of the scenes I already done. Nevertheless I will post those scenes in this Blog in a couple of days.


Terrain


The general feedback I got from what I showed of my animation was focused on the simplicity of the terrains in certain scenes and some of the "horizons" being obviously created by the end of the plane where the terrain was modelled.


So what I have done is to create a terrain putting more care on the bumps and the mountains it has. Then I cloned the terrain and placed it all over the scenes so the horizon problem is solved. I re-rendered 3 scenes to fix the terrain problems.


Here is the terrain that I used (100 segments by 100 segments)

And here are some screen capture to show the difference: