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The Museum Of Power: December 2009
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The Museum Of Power. Tuesday, 8 December 2009. Over the past seven weeks, my group and I have recreated a steam powered coal pump featured in the 'Museum Of Power', Maldon. The idea was the create the engine from the ground up and show the mechanisms working in an educational and also interesting light. Furthermore we had to show the steam pump being used in the sort of environment it would have been used in decades ago. Working within the group environment has been a great experience and has a massive f...
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The Museum Of Power: Animating The Wheel
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The Museum Of Power. Tuesday, 1 December 2009. This was a bit of a breakthrough for the group as we could now tweak the actual speed of the wheel as it rotated from frame 1 to 600. The wheel still appeared to be moving quite slowly, so to speed it up I pulled the green line from within the curve editor and made the incline much greater. The gentler the incline the slower the animation. The wheel animating without textures using the curve editor. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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The Museum Of Power: Post Production
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The Museum Of Power. Tuesday, 8 December 2009. The video was then imported into Cakewalk Sonar 6, a audio editing application which was ideal for adding some of Tom's sound clips to the video clip. By changing the placement and the volume of the audio it was easy to create a realistic sounding steam engine. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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The Museum Of Power: Evaluation & Reflection
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The Museum Of Power. Tuesday, 8 December 2009. Over the past seven weeks, my group and I have recreated a steam powered coal pump featured in the 'Museum Of Power', Maldon. The idea was the create the engine from the ground up and show the mechanisms working in an educational and also interesting light. Furthermore we had to show the steam pump being used in the sort of environment it would have been used in decades ago. Working within the group environment has been a great experience and has a massive f...
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The Museum Of Power: November 2009
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The Museum Of Power. Wednesday, 25 November 2009. Creating and Applying Texture Maps. The final stage before animation was to apply texture, specular and bump maps to the objects. As a group we decided that a lot of the texturing will be done by all group members as this alleviated the work load and allowed us to focus on the animation and post production. This is the final texture image used for the objects within 3ds Max. I wanted to remove the black spots from the image as these were appearing more li...
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The Museum Of Power: The Oil Lamp
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The Museum Of Power. Thursday, 3 December 2009. For added effect and detail we thought as a group that a few oil lamps dotted around the scene will create a much more realistic atmosphere, and would also explain the presence of light during a night time scene. Adding a mesh smooth modifier created a good, rounded off and smooth surface. I applied a mesh smooth on this section as well to round the shape off and make it more consistent with the shape positioned below. Using the line tool with both properti...
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The Museum Of Power: Creating & Applying Texture Maps
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The Museum Of Power. Wednesday, 25 November 2009. Creating and Applying Texture Maps. The final stage before animation was to apply texture, specular and bump maps to the objects. As a group we decided that a lot of the texturing will be done by all group members as this alleviated the work load and allowed us to focus on the animation and post production. This is the final texture image used for the objects within 3ds Max. I wanted to remove the black spots from the image as these were appearing more li...
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The Museum Of Power: Mechanism
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The Museum Of Power. Thursday, 12 November 2009. My next job for my group was to help model the moving mechanisms in the centre of the steam pump. At first this looked quite daunting and complicated, and the animation was going to be even more difficult by the look of it. I decided instead to use the line tool with properties of the line tool set to 'Smooth' so I could create a fluid line with no straight lines. This created a much more realistic and better looking shape. I cloned the cylinder again and ...
