Extra Credit: Lighting a Scene in Maya

Special Effects in Animation and Live-Action

My first two term paper scores were 90 and 87; I will not be writing a third term paper.

Outline for the Third Term Paper

• Introduce special effects their purpose, examples, and forced perspective
• Define forced perspective
• Explain why I chose forced perspective
• Introduce the two movies I am comparing
• Harry Potter
• Lord of the Rings
• Lord of the rings introduction
• Why forced perspective was used
• How forced perspective was done in lord of the rings
• Effectiveness of the effect
• Harry Potter introduction
• Why and where forced perspective was use in harry potter
• How it was done and if the technique was different than LOTR
• How effective the effect was
• Comparison of the two movies' attempt at forced perspective
• my favorite/most effective in my opinion
• Conclude as to why its better to use forced perspective than some effect
• explain the differences in each movies techniques
• recap what movie did it better

Stop-Motion Character Animation

I made this stop-motion animation the same way I made my last one. I had my character on a popsicle stick from a tasty corndog then used photoshop to remove the stick and my sexy arm from the pictures. The shadows once again play a difficult role of a uniform background after removing my arm and the stick.  I feel however the animation is more life like than my last.

I also used tape to mark jump heights so that at the apex of the jump I could remember where to rotate the character in the air and make him hang for effect.