First person style animation

[O'Neill]

For a while now, I have been a fan of the Nintendo game series, Metroid. Im sure some of you have probably heard of it. A few years ago Nintendo came out with a new Metroid release that was first person style instead of the classic side scrolling game. I thought it would be cool to build my own game environment and animate a camera walking through it to simulate the Metroid environment.

All of this was done in Cinema 4D. The character model in this was one I found online that had been ripped from the actual game, however I had to rig it and animate it. The first person view was a simple camera that I animated to fly around giving the appearance of watching from the characters view.

The environment was all baked. I used global illumination and baked it into the UV map which made rendering a lot faster.

[Rod]

That's really cool, quite a project, bet it was a real time consumer! A whole bunch of detail, and creativity. Good job!

[AubreyM]

Great job on the animation! I love the HUD and the reflections of the character. I know how much work a project like this can be.
Thanks for posting it

[O'Neill]

Thanks guys! Yes, this project was a lot of work for one person but I had a lot of fun making it. Took me about 2 weeks to do the entire thing.

[Russell L. Thomas]

two weeks for all of that work is pretty damn good, very nice work, great level design and I agree the characters reflection in the helmet glass was a very nice affect.

[O'Neill]

Thanks Russell!

[theanimationspot]

For a while now, I have been a fan of the Nintendo game series, Metroid. Im sure some of you have probably heard of it. A few years ago Nintendo came out with a new Metroid release that was first person style instead of the classic side scrolling game. I thought it would be cool to build my own game environment and animate a camera walking through it to simulate the Metroid environment.

All of this was done in Cinema 4D. The character model in this was one I found online that had been ripped from the actual game, however I had to rig it and animate it. The first person view was a simple camera that I animated to fly around giving the appearance of watching from the characters view.

The environment was all baked. I used global illumination and baked it into the UV map which made rendering a lot faster.

That's a really good animation. Such a good efforts Keep it up O'Neill. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adam K - The Animationspot - A leading Animation Company in USA. For more information visit our website.