Opening Sequence

I have created the opening sequence for my animation. The scene will be five seconds long and will contain a slow zoom in the the MI6 building. I created a plane and imported the bitmap onto it. I wanted to use my own water material instead of the water in the picture. 3ds max has a built in water material when you switch the renderer to mental ray. I created a box and started experimenting with the materials. There are a number of presets within the material. I struggled at first to get the river the correct colour. It needs to match the sky and the presets were either too blue or too green/brown. I opted to use a custom colour and selected one similar to that as the sky. Once rendered I decided it was good.





I added a camera to the scene and locked it to the picture. Along the timeline I auto keyed the camera to zoom in slightly over the five seconds. This means I will be able to add text using premier pro to set the scene at the start of the animation. Here is the rendered video, it took a long time to render as the water material is a promaterial. I am especially pleased with the water material as it moves when the camera zooms in.





Danny Robinson
MI6 Building, Albert Embankment
2006
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/177502
[Internet]
[25/3/2011]