The peak of my work this year was my animation work for Professional team brief, and the collaborative effort between myself, Tim Nguyen and Pat to create a racing game for the summer show, so i decided to use them.
Jäga Rally (Racing Game)
Obtaining footage from Unity was a little tricky and somewhat frustrating, I was hoping there would be some way for me to create a camera in-game that i could fly around the track to get the various shots i desired. Sadly, there was nothing that would allow me to do this so i had to make use of the camera movement offered out-of-game and make do with that. The only problem i had with this is that i felt it was of slightly lower quality than if the game were actually running, and the dense grey fog that is automatically added and i could find no way of adjusting, making it difficult for long shots.
I used the popular desktop recording software Fraps to obtain the footage itself, a very simple program, you press a hotkey and it records your desktop until you press said hotkey again. I found it very easy to use but the results varied, i would sometimes get disastrous framerate issues and towards the end i found my videos were becoming artifacted and disjointed, as if the software was breaking. Thankfully at this point i had already obtained more than enough footage.
Team Brief Animation Work
Obtaining footage from Maya was a much easier affair given its built in 'playblast' function. Playblast allows you to quickly render an animation sequence directly from the viewport, so while admittedly this would be unsuitable for a 3D modelled scene where proper lighting would improve the look, with my flat 2D animations that look as good in viewport as they do when rendered, playblast was perfect. The videos i obtained were simply a select few of my favourite animations from those i had created on the Team Brief project.
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