The final work for this unit, I like to do a air battle between the robots which I have planed long ago. I tried to find some assets from the resource share, I only found one called Hekatron, it seems like it’s the only one that can have the battle on the air. I keep looking downloadable rigged assets on google, until I found an Evangelion:

Even it has a bad rig, I couldn’t found any other model that can fit my scene, and it looks just fine after rendering, it’s enough for me.

After filming the performance, I started to do the animation.

I set up a scene with skydome, placed the Evangelion back on the sun, it looks cool.

Hekatron using the machine gun shooting at him. I made two lights and set the constrain with the machine gun, so the light can move with the arms. When it’s firing, the light will keep flickering.

There are also some lighting effect like the beam sword and beam cannon.

In general I feel I have done lighting work even more then the animation part, but I feel ok, because I have learnt many things about lighting that I didn’t know in the past. Finally rendering the whole video, I imported the image sequences into After Effect, because I don’t know how to do VFX in 3D software….But the final effect feels ok, if I got more time I definitely make it looks better.

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