Rooftop Climb
An animation sequence I created as my graduation project at Futuregames. I recently went back to it to add some more polish and fix the lighting in the scene.
The purpose behind this project was that I already had plenty of experience with gameplay animations, so I wanted to try something a bit more cinematic. The sequence depicts two people working together to climb up a wall in order to get to the roof.
The animations were done entirely in blender and I used DaVinci Resolve for video editing and adding in textboxes and credits.
Credits:
- Snow Rig © Blender Foundation | studio.blender.org
- Rain Rig © Blender Foundation | cloud.blender.org
The final result.
A sketch of the scene from the planning stage.
Before I decided on what the characters should do I made quick sketches of multiple ideas.
When working on this scene I decided on the characters actions before I decided on a camera position.
So halfway through the project I spent a lot of time trying out different camera angles.
The scene layout in different views. I made the scene a bit larger than just the wall since I wasn't sure which camera angles I wanted initially.
Having a larger scene would also allow my to add more different moments to the sequence.
Scene layout with lighting sources shown. Most of the lighting information comes from the top sky-light that simulates moonlight.
The bottom part shows how I adjusted the HDR map to better fit the scene.