Conclusion

After completing my idents, when I look back at what I knew about how to use the programme 3D Max, im happy with the end results. Although there are a few slight problems in the idents, I think they would make successfull gap fillers between programmes. I really enjoyed the module and learing new techniques on Max which I will utilise in the future.

Final Ident 3 - Volley Ball

Final Ident 2 - Golf

Final Ident 1 - Cricket

Sound for the Idents

When it came to the sound needed for each ident, I wanted to use actual sound clips taken from each sport. The easiest way to do this was to take pre-recorded sound from a video displayed on YouTube.com.

To find the correct videos, I used a simple search with each of the sports as a keyword. From the videos which were found in the search, I chose one from each list which best resembled the sound I was looking for and using Adobe Premiere, put the sound form the videos together with the idents to achieve the end result.

The links to the original videos are as follows:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT32qrwGWew    -    volleyball ident

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SRDB-KCx_w&feature=PlayList&p=7D0DE3DC8A9454E9&index=40   -   golf ident

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wSIzbSQ_Kw   -   cricket ident

Ident 3 - Volley ball

4. At the same time as the ball begins to slow down, the Sky Sports logo moves onto the screen to complete the sequence of events and end the ident.

3. For the animation part, the volley ball appears over the net and bounces on the sand before stopping in the frame. This was created using Reactor which due to the un -level surface was a hard task to master.

2. The beach scene itself is primarily contructed of two planes with different material properties to create the sand and sea effect. I chrome material was also made by altering the light qualities on a Raytrace material. The net was created by applying the same UVW map to a plane which, due to the black background of the map, made the blackness transparent. Making the plane 2-sided gave the perfect volleyball net.

1. For the final ident I decided to create a volley ball style scene set on a beach. I created a volleyball by munipulating the sides of a cube to keep flat surfaces yet making the object rounded. Then a mesh smooth was applied.

Ident 2 - Golf

4. The finale of the ident sees the golf ball come to rest on the 'o' of the word Sports. This gives a purpose to the design and also brings the animation and channel name together for the viewer.

3. As the golf ball bounces on the surface it rolls towards a Sky Sports logo which is cut into the floor using a boolean effect. The camera which originally was in a fixed position watching the bouncing animation, is by now panning around the logo and ball with a focal point fixed in the centre.

2. I wanted the ball to bounce on a grassy looking surface so I applied a grass texture to a plane and created the animation in Reactor.

1. When creating the golf themed ident, the first proccess was to create the golf ball itself. I did this by manipulating a sphere by converting it to an editable poly and beveling hexagonal section of it inwards to create the desired effect. Next I added a mesh smooth and an anistrophic shine to complete the golf ball look.