Travis Lane DTC 435 Final

For this project I wanted to do something very simple that would also be interesting to watch, I decided the best way to do that was to focus on a very simple object while things happened around it. I decided on an egg that finds itself rolling through danger while its mother (a Pterodactyl) protects it from being destroyed. I originally had multiple scenes in mind for the egg to go through before making it safely back to the nest but settled because of time constraints I decided to do two of the scenes, rolling down the hill and then falling over a waterfall.

I had some trouble with rigging my creatures but eventually figured out how to successfully get them to fly and swim and complete the tasks the way I wanted them to. The biggest issue I faced in this project was the rendering process, while using mental ray not every frame would render out and because of this I resorted to using the Maya Software. This project was a lot of fun I especially enjoyed crafting the environment and modeling my dinosaurs which each went through several iterations before being completed

Although the project changed quite a bit from what I had in mind to start out it still has many of the scenes I had imagined when putting together the storyboard. If I could change some things in my project I would have added more motion to my characters that at the moment both only complete one action. In order to make them feel more alive I would add more actions and interactions with the environment.