Week 7 Midterm WIP

 So, keeping things going with my midterm project, the Yume Nikki bedroom scene. In my last post, I walked about the textures that I was working with, and trying to get the scene to look much more natural than it currently does.




Since then, I have started to get a bit of camera animation going. Right now, all the camera does is move around the room, and then focus on the desk, but I want to work towards getting it to be much smoother. I have keyframes at the 1st 30th, 60th, and 120th frames, but as you can see below, it still looks a bit fast for me. I could slow the animation down independently, but that would lower the framerate, which I do not want to do, so I will likely just add more keyframes.


Hopefully soon I will be able to get some lighting down as well, and put down some images on the desk for the viewer to look at once the animation ends. In the future I may also add some other objects in the room, such as maybe a player model.

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