SARAH'S ANIMATIONS
PROJECT 5
Rube Goldberg Machine
Due: 4/8/2020
Animations, Screenshots: Sarah DiPatrizio
STORYBOARD
Final Animation
(due to issues creating the playblast and matching the frame rate,
I would recommend watching the video at 1.25x or higher speed)
PARTICIPATING OBJECTS
Ball
Funnel
Moving L-shaped block
Three non-moving wooden planks
Wooden plank "catapult"
Dart
Dartboard
Close-up images for each of the objects mentioned can be found in the image gallery below!
DETAILS
List of effects/additions not pictured
Moving camera
created one camera and created​ a frame-by-frame path for it to follow
focuses initially on the blue rolling ball and then shifts to the dart as it hits the dartboard
Lighting
An area light was placed ​above all the workings of the machine
used two-sided lighting
Background/surrounding area
used an image plane for the "floor" and a cube (with textures on the inside) for the "walls"​
Rigid bodies
both active and passive rigid bodies were used in order to create this machine​
Rolling animation
The smooth animation of the rolling ball was created by adding a "gravity" element to it​
References
Dart board and darts: https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3d-dartboard-darts-model/257860
I used the model as a basis and then colored everything in myself (the texture didn't load properly so I created materials in Maya)
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Wood "floor": https://www.myfreetextures.com/red-seamless-wood-texture/​
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Walls: https://wallpaperhomenew.blogspot.com/2017/10/wallpaper-home-texture.html
In retrospect, I would have looked for a higher quality picture