Week 9: Dynamic Elements

We thought of adding dynamic elements to our scene to give it life. Animating the book pages and moving the bushes that were in the exterior were our options. I started with testing the book pages animation. I used Maya's nCloth to achieve the wind effect.

The book pages flipping looked distracting in the scene. We wanted the focus to got to our hero elements and with the pages flipping, book was taking all the focus. I tried lowering the wind amount, but since book pages were the only thing moving, they were still distracting. So we decided not to move the pages. However, ended up replacing the old book model with the model that was result of the simulation.