3P98 Graphics Animation Project - "Desert Dukes"

© Jeff Maxwell & Ryan Villers, 2003

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Table of Contents

Development

Introduction

Models

Sound

Comments

• All work was done on PC's running Windows 98.

• 3D Studio Max v.5 was used for all modelling, animating, rendering, and sound work.
• MS Paint was used to modify the tire image which was found on the web.

• Car
  

  The car was created using several different shapes including a chamfer box for the body, tubes for the exhaust pipes, cylinders for the wheels, and a box for the motor and window section of the car. Reflective material was applied to the windows (different material for front/back & sides); two different chromic materials were used for the motor and the exhaust pipes; and a metallic gold material (appears orangey) was applied to the body of the car & the roof. A image of a wheel was found on the Internet and we modified it using MS Paint. This new image was then mapped to the cylinders (wheels) to make them appear like wheels. A rough textured material was applied to the wheels sides (tread area).

• Landscape
• Ground
  

  The ground was created with a big box. Fractal noise was then applied to it to make it appear bumpy. A material called mars was applied to the ground to give it a reddish-brown look to try to achieve the desert setting we wanted.

• Grass
  

  The grass was created using simple triangles, which were then bent to look like grass. Three different shaped grass objects were created. A scatter was then applied to the grass objects to scatter them across the landscape. A bright green material was applied to the grass to give it a lush feel.

• Trees
  

  The trees were constructed using a single cylinder and then manipulating that cylinder with extrudes. Branches were applied using additional 'extruded' cylinders. The leaves on the trees were constructed using splines to keep them small and simple. A wood (bark) material was applied to the trees (trunk & branches) to give the appearance of bark.

• Sky
  

  The clounds in the sky were constructed using two hemispheres with a boolean operation to create volume. The fog was then added into the volume, and a blue background was applied to create the blue sky. Since we do want the viewer to know what they are looking at, we have kept with natures choice of a white material for the clouds/fog, and a blue material for the sky

• Credits
  

  The text for the credits was made using 3D Studio Max's text object and the Bevel modifier. A desert-brownish colour was given to the credits to keep with the setting of the animation.

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