My draft for my the final video. Rendered in low resolution as a test to see how it will appear on youtube.

Starting to edit my video now, I have captured multiple screen recordings of my model in movement within cry engine. I had to compress the video files to get them off the uni's mac computers onto my own. I am using a professional video editing software called Sony Vegas pro 11. I am familiar with this program and am able to do a lot more with it then i could in windows movie maker.

After clipping all of the pieces of video, I went through one by one and starting adjusting the  orientation of the footage. I had to centre some clips such as the image above illustrating how cry engine doesn't do a very good job at being able to get cameras in their correct position and angle. An easy fix on Sony Vegas allows me to center my model in the screen.

Heres a quick concept I had in mind for starting off my animation video, simple yet effective with the open source music I have found.

After a bit more consideration towards my movie, I have videoed some shots that I would like to portray my model in. By multiplying my model 4 times, I have created a tessellation pattern when the triangular pieces start to move around. I really like the blue light reflecting off the water in this video. My next step is to start thinking of a story board for more intricate camera angles and scene to place the camera. Also I can start thinking about camera tracking texts etc in video editing software.

Here's a short video of what I have managed to create so far with my model in Cry Engine using the FRAPS screen recording program. I have been able to Trigger the movement of the shapes by pressing "x" and trigger them to move back into the center by pressing "c" since this video, I have added more layers and played around a bit with the settings.


This flowgraph shows an individual shape of the models movements and triggers by pressing "x" and "c"

I have started to do some research on music for my video in order to model it in a similar way. I found this great open source music website, where you are able to purchase tunes for a couple of dollars and are able to use on the internet.

After a couple of hours searching for something i likes and would go along with my model, i found this track that is 60s long (just enough for the video) called 01 Xcyril - Alter Ego - La mort de Chloé

http://pro.jamendo.com/royalty-free-music-library?protracking=jmtrack1#pn=1&tag=&theme=&speed=&sound=&search=track-110635&playlist=&duration=&profavorites=&proshare=&voicegender=&country=&order=&lang=&inst1=

After having some trouble in cry engine trying to animate my model made of three individual groups, I decided to head back to sketchup and re work on my model. I grouped all three segments in sketchup this time instead of having them in a group within cry engine. The image below shows my re worked model (as a complete group this time) that i have created a flow graph that will both rotate the object and move it. I am now attempting to figure out how to repeat the movement animation flow graph so it will travel back to its original position.