making the water realistic...

To make the water of the pond move realistically, i added around 20 keyframes throughout the clip. At each one I moved the water plane slightly side to side and also up and down slightly to give a realistic affect. This takes a while to render as there is alot going on in the scene and the trees are also in the background.

Started to render...

Now the first few scenes are animated (boys kicking ball around and rog on lilly pad) I can begin to render. The rendering process takes a very long time. Here is the rendering process.

The trouble I had was to do with the saving format. I saved it as an AVI file. But the programme only let me saved the file as an uncompressed file, which caused the playback to be very jerky and take up alot of space.

Boys position...

Here is a screen shot showing the boys position and how they are kicking the ball around...

Frog and movement...

Here is how the frog sits on the lilly pad, it moves around in a way that makes it look asif the water is moving it:

Forgot the blog...

With so much work going into the animation these days i keep forgetting to update the blog. I've just been working my way through the setting up of the scene. Making sure the frog and the 3 boys are in the right position. Currently the frog is sitting on a lilly pad and floating around the pond. The boys playing football will be my open scene. They are standing in a triangle shape and the ball is moving between them as if they are passing to each other. Screen shots to follow.

Here is my rendered environment. I also placed a backdrop in so it looks more realsitic.

Environment.

The first thing i decided to make was the environment in which the animation is set. I will need to make a park scene. This will feature a grass field with a pond in the background (where the frogs will be). Once this is created i can build everything else into it. I started by making a square, flat shape and, using soft selection, raised and lowered the ground to make it look a bit more like a field.