We were shown the Autokey function, which as may be fairly obvious, automatically creates animation keyframes whenever you change the frame number and alter some property of your object. After which we were asked to create a sphere and animate it moving around. We then 'linked' some more spheres we had used to create 'eyes' for our spheres, using the Link button, found in the top-left of the default Max layout. This allowed the eyes to stay with our creatures, along the animation path we had already created for what had become our 'body' sphere. You can see a screenshot of what my screen looked like when we'd finished below.
We were then shown how to render our scenes to an avi video and asked to do the same for our own animations. This is simply a process of going into the render settings and setting it to render a batch of frames rather than a single image.
After this we were walked through the creation of the basic shape of a freight container, this renewed previous knowledge we had gained last year on using the inset and extrude tools. Here's the result:
Finally we were shown how to unwrap our shipping containers, then tasked with doing the same thing ourselves, this was something else that we were shown how to do last year but as always i was grateful for the recap. Through the process of Flat Mapping the UVs, exporting them to an image then painting over them i was able to create the (admittedly, due to my over enthusiasm for the animating parts, slightly rushed) result you see below.
Once again we rendered the results:
Having dabbled in animation before (though not for a long time), i found this session to be a great way to rekindle my interest in the area.
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