Animation Software

In this section myself and my group will be looking at different types of 3D animations software’s available that we can self learn during this course to produce an effective finished appearance to our final media product. We thought it would be a good idea to add some scenes that are fully animated to symbolize the difference between realism and surrealism. Therefore, we want to learn another software that we can incorporate in our final piece.

Adobe Flash CS5

Flash enables the ability to manipulate vector & raster graphics to provide animation texts, drawings and still images. It also captures the users imput such as Mouse movements, keyboards, microphones and camera. Adobe Flash strongly contains an object-orientated language called ActionScript that supports automations via Javascript flash language. Adobe Flash is a form of a multimedia platform mainly used to animations interactivity to webpage and other digital devices. Flash is frequently used for different methods of advertisements, games and flash animations.

Autodesk Maya Modelling & Animation Software

AutoDesk Maya is a three dimensional (3D) computer graphics software that runs on Linux, Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows. It was originally developed by a company called Alias Systems Corporation and its now currently owned and developed my Autodesk, Inc. Maya is used to create interactive 3D applications, including video games, animated films, TV series or just simply to create visual effects.

 This is a screenshot of something that is possible to create. From all the icons on display, it indicates the complexity of the software and it will takes years to full learn it. However as a group we are determined to buy tutorial magazines of this software to see if we are eligible to create an functional 3D animation that is suitable & relevant for our music video.

This image of the car looks extremely realistic and professional which shows how good this software is. This software is well known with all the film creators in animated films, as this is the exact software they use to produce the movies.

This is an example of what Autodesk Maya 2010 is capable of creating:

Overall, as a group I believe we will give a good attempt to use these animation software’s that we could use in our finished music video, however it all depends if we can find the time to learn these complex software’s in a few months that will be professional enough to be used. Out of the choice of software, I would like to use ‘Maya’ as it looks more effective but I have had some basic experience on ‘Adobe Flash’, so we shall be experimenting with both software’s and test what attracts the target audience more effectively…..