BA (Hons) Digital Art and Technology

The video below shows the final version of my realtime project ‘Economy Run’. The final step is to dome correct the videos and change to resolution to match the dome.

To create the animations for my project I have used Blender. I had decided to use a similar idea to the prototype I created and create three different animations which will be triggered depending on whether the  exchange rate has either increased, decreased or stayed the same. I have decided to base the animations on a tunnel as I felt this would be an effective way of inducing vection in the done environment. When creating the animation in Blender I first modeled a straight tunnel and parented all the elements of the tunnel to a curve as shown below. The camera has also been parented to the centre curve so that it follow the path when animated. This model was also  used to represent when the exhange rate stayed the same.

Simply by  moving the points of this curve would adjust the whole model and allow me to create the animations for when the exchange rate increased and decresed. The image below is the model I have set up for when the exchange rate increases.

This is the model I have set up for when the exchange rate decreases.