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Here is my final animation

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sunrising

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I took a screen shot of my final animation in premiere showing how i overlaid the seperate animations

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Heres the code i used to make my sun rise and a reference to where i got the code to make the sun: http://processing.org/examples/star.html

Also the gradients images i used in this code.

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here i did the same as i did with the bird flying. i made the background green so that i could easily edit it out in premiere and overlay it on another animation.

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parting clouds

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the code i used to make the clouds separate in the sky

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but in the end i choose to leave it out and have a static image of the bird until it took flight.

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I thought about making this my intro for the bird

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For my final animation i have mad the back ground pure green (0, 255, 0) and in premiere i will edit out the green so that i can lay this animation over another

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Flight animation 

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The code i used t load each image to make the flight animation

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Here is an image of each birds frames overlaying each other

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I drew the bird flight frame by frame for my animation

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Summary

I started this project looking at how I held and handled a cellphone. I decided to branch out from here to a few things with similar grips, a fan and a sword were my next to objects. I decided to develop my model with the idea of creating a hand guard like on the sword handles I was looking at. I made a lot of the models with this idea. I noticed that I was heading in the same direction as my previous two projects with a jagged rock/crystal like structure. This made me think about how ancient homosapiens would use stone axes to break and cut things. So I went ahead and made a model which I planned on using as my final. But when I got it out of the mold I made it didnt feel right it was too blockish and felt heavy. I realised that it wasn't very comfortable to hold which was the whole point of this project. So I spent some time developing a more elegant version of the stone axe which became my final model.

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Final solid works render

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My final poster