Assignment 06: Animate the Fish :)

Project Due Date: April 3rd

For this exercise, develop an underwater scene containing all of the objects that we have created thus far. Import two copies of your fish. Animate the first fish moving from left to right. The fish should swim a short distance and nibble at one of the objects in the fish bowl around frame 60 and then back away slightly. The camera should track this fish. The other fish should swim into the scene from the right at about frame 30, in-between the first fish and the camera, and exit on the left side of the frame around frame 140. Animate the motion for both fish including the tails, fins and gills. Use the blend-shapes already developed for the eyelids. The fish movements should be key-framed.

Pay attention to the following:

1. the length of the animation should be 150 frames
2. the resolution should be set at 1280 x 720
3. the frames per second should be 24

You may need to adjust the lighting
Put the Maya file with the animation into the vist284 Dropbox, directory lesson 06. For the file headers, indicate the exercise and you name in the following format: "exercise9-JohnSmith.ma" or JohnSmith-animation.

The grades will be determined according to the following:

Composition of the scene during the animiation	30%
Smothness of the animation	20%
Camera tracking	20%
Project Completeness	15%
Timliness of Handin	15%