Making Jelly..

In our multimedia seminar today on Animation we were given a tutorial on some basic animation for the word 'Jelly'. We ran through the method of creating an actual visible piece of text on top of a flat plane (for the floor) and then used modifiers and movement over a number of key frames to develop a moving piece of text that acted in a style to jelly using the idea that everything that moves uses anticipation before execution, as such it moves before it makes an action in direct correlation to preparing for that action.

This was a good way to start as it covered all the small pieces of devices that can be used to develop a living and breathing piece of animation eventually, given enough time and effort.. but of course I know I'll be doing this next year so I'm glad to have got started as early as this. 

After I'd had a go at the original tutorial for the piece I decided to experiment with 'lighting'. I set up a targeted light and centered it at the centre of the plane and created a sphere in the centre, I then animated 4 frames of the light source so that I could watch the effect on the default texture applied to the plane and sphere as it moved around the edge of my perspective.

After a little experimentation I had some small success but nothing huge, s'good to be creating stuff in 3d though, even it is just a ball and some jelly..