Friday, November 14, 2008

Setback

With the last weekend before the project is due upon us, i came across a problem that could have been solved if i would have started this project a different way from the beginning.  There are two or three parts in my storyboard where the tracks curve, i tried to create this and animate it in a series of ways through AE, but nothing seemed to work.  My best chance was create the rail and animate it by just moving the piece, but i could not for the life of my match it up well.  I feel the only way i could have done this effectively was to create the ENTIRE rail connected and all in illustrator and then using different cameras move the camera over the whole thing.  Because of my lack of knowledge of the program i did not look at this problem serious enough early enough.  To fix it i just took out the curves all together and allowed my video to leave the complete realist idea of the train tracks being connected.  I have added a couple parts where there are multiple tracks on the screen at once.  This is not exactly what i wanted, obviously, but i am settling with it and i think it still works for what i want to convey.  I will post the video this Sat/Sunday when i finish, whichever day it is.  

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