Editing pt 2 and final animation

The final part of editing and cleaning up requires me to add in any audio that the animation needs. The sound effects and dialogue was all created by myself using Audacity to record the sounds. The dialogue was pretty straight forward however the sound effects were a little bit more difficult.

One of the sound effects that i used was ambient noise such as people talking and a vehicle passing by. These were recorded by using a Noise machine which is designed to help you sleep.
The other sound effect that i created were the laser pistol sounds and the can rebounding off of the wall. The pistol sound was created by saying 'Pew' into the microphone and then adding reverb and changing the pitch to be more high pitched. This was then slowed down and put into reverse for when the Main character first uses the pistol as the laser chargin up.

The other sound that i created was the can sound that was used when the can hit each wall. This sound was created by slamming an empty can down on my desk and then changing the pitch to be lower. This sound was also used in the scene where the main character knocks on a metal door.


To add a bit of atmosphere to the animation, i used 3 pieces of music throughout. These are Royalty free pieces of music created by Kevin MacLeod available on incompetech.com. These pieces of music were used to also fill in the empty spaces when there is not any dialogue as well as being an underlying sountrack in the scenes.

The three pieces of music used are called Hard Boiled, Spyglass and Volatile reaction.

Hard Boiled

Hard Boiled Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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 Spyglass

 Spy Glass Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Volatile reaction

Volatile Reaction Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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After the final editing check, the animation is finally ready to be viewed and is available below

Editing

Now that all four scenes of my animation have been rendered, there is only one more step that needs to be completed to finish the animation and that is editing the scenes together and making any changes such as area that go on too long and any other effects.

To edit the scenes together used a piece of software called Vegas pro 15. This sofware is generally used for more complex video editing however this worked fine for my needs.

Once the scenes are put together one of the first things that needed to be done was to remove the green screens in big chief's office. Initially i made the monitors have a green screen as it made it much easier to add in a video after the scene was rendered.  However when applying a chroma key effect, other green objects in the scene would also be made transparent. To combat this, i used a technic called masking which allowed me to designate specific areas so that were to be removed. I learnt more about the technique in the video below created by youtube user Tech Dive. Once this was done, i could move onto the next edit.

The next edit that was made was to add in text to the end of scene 1 and the teh beginning of scene 2. During these parts of the scene it involves a first person perspective of the main character shutting down and rebooting. By default, the text that can be added as an overlay has no special propeties and can only have basic effects such as tranformations and transitions be added to it. However i wanted these sequences to function more how an old computer would in the command line or a typewriter where each character is typed out individually. To do this i followed the video below created by youtube user timetokickit on which allowed me to use an effect called ProType which allowed me to do this.

The result of this makes the text added on to the scenes look much more dynamic and much more exciting to look at.

Another important edit that needed to be made is the ajustment of brightness and contrast. Some scenes such as Big chief's office and the Greasy Can exterior where fine in terms of brightness. However The city street scene was much too bright and the Greasy Can interior was much too dark. To fix this i added a brightness filter which allowed me to increase or decrease the brightness to the desired level. This edit fixed a problem which i was having when trying to get the scene lighting right much earlier in the project development.

Scene 4 Rendered

Much like the previous scenes, the video was exporte using Vegas Pro 15 and was initially rendered as many Jpeg images.

Scene 3 Rendered

Much like scene 1 and 2 i rendered the scene using Jpegs and imported them into Vegas Pro 15.

Below is the Raw video file unedited.