My Final Project for CS307

For my final project, I decided to expand on my theme of a drumkit I modeled earlier in the semester:

The drumkit was comprised of two objects I modeled: a snare drum (with or without legs) and a cymbal (with or without a stand).

For my project, I decided to expand upon an animation I made of two drumsticks moving up and down to hit a snare drum. The hand of the metronome moves along in time with the drumstics motion, as well as the red circle on the sheet music, and the mallet against the bass drum.

A few shots of my final project:

The initial view.

A birds-eye view.

Shot 3 -- an example of poster disintegration on the right wall.

A right-side view.

Immersed in the scene without any animation.

Immersed in the scene after 4 frames of animation. Note: the bezier surface of the drum is now curving inward as though the mallet has hit the drum forcefully enough to bend the surface.

The scene is comprised of a series of objects and textured mapped images. It includes the following ojects that I modeled:

Snare drum
Drumstick
Metronome
Table
Red circle (a torus from the OpenGL object library)
A drum mallet
A "bezier brum" -- a drum similer in appearnce to my snare drum, except the white heads are bezier surfaces defined by control points, with the ability to bend outward and inward

NOTE:The piano and the guitar were modeled by other students.

Various images were texture mapped on the walls to contribue to the music theme:

The back wall is an image of sheet music
The left wall is a giant poster for the music artist "The Flaming Lips"
The right wall is filled with various posters of musical artists (Metric, Nirvana, Tegan and Sara, Nine Inch Nails, and Radiohead)

Elements of CS307 Represented in this Project

Material, lighting and shading -- as seen in the heads of the drums and other places
Curved (bezier) suface -- the heads of the green bass drum are bezier surfaces
Animation
Texture mapping -- as seen on the walls

Troubles and Improvements

#1 The table is a model I made earlier in the semester and is supposed to be wildly texture-mapped:

#2 The posters on the right wall used to appear intact, no matter how the scene was rotated. Now, as seen in Shot 3, they disintegrate as the scene is rotated.