Idea
As the final project of the course GC 330 – Basic Technical Animation, I was required to make a 45+ sec 3D animation video by Autodesk 3ds Max. I decided to reproduce the classic scene of movie Fast & Furious 7 with the characters from KartRider, a popular video game of a South Korean company, Nexon.
Design (Storyboard)
In the design phase, the storyboard is essential because I want to remake the animation correctly matched to the original scene in a timely manner. This process requires recoding the position of objects/characters, the movement of cameras, the zooming of the lens, the conversation. They can be presented on a storyboard in block of key frames. All of these drawings are performed on Procreate.
Models
- Character Model
- Kart Model
- Terrian Model
Render
Limited by the machine I possessed, the render engine is the most fundamental one, Scanline Renderer, which is fast but low in render quality. Nevertheless, with 15 scenes, the whole project took about 2 hours for rendering.
Video Editing
The video editor I used was Adobe Premiere Pro. The editing process went parallel with the rendering. The original clip is also included in for presenting the time correspondence.
Leo Li 
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