Today we decided to make a 3D city scape. We would use the 3D techniques we learnt on monday aswell as some new ones.
Firstly we had to make the basis for the skyscraper. We would make this simply by using a black solid then scaling it to become a tall rectangle. We then made a new compostion which would be a window. This comprised of two solids, one being back and one being yellow. We placed the solids on top of each other, and made the composition only 2 frames long. 1 frame was the black solid, showing the window light as off, one being the yellow solid showing it as on.
We then placed this new compostition of the window in the black solid skyscraper to show a window. We placed 4 of these in a row and used time-remapping to swtich between the two frames of on-and-off windows to show the lights switching on and off. We then precomosed these 4 windows to creat a row of windows, we copied these down the skyscraper to form the whole building. This is the animation we created.
We then imported this composition into a new 3D environment, and copied it and scaled it many times to create a cityscape. We then animated a camera around it. Here is the animation.
We then went back to our original skyscraper composition and added the other walls and roof to make it a 3D skyscraper. We did this the same way we created the cubes on friday. We went back to the cityscape composition and animated the camera again.
We then keyframed the z-scale of the composition to create the effect of the buildings growing outwards from the 2D shape.
We then duplicated this composition and placed them further and further back to make it look like the city was growing. We keyframed their position to give this effect. We later added an ambient light and two spotlights. We animated the anchor point of the spotlights to show the lights moving.
Next we added some rain from the “effects/generate/rain” menu to an adjustment layer.
