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)
Wood "floor": https://www.myfreetextures.com/red-seamless-wood-texture/
Walls: https://wallpaperhomenew.blogspot.com/2017/10/wallpaper-home-texture.html
In retrospect, I would have looked for a higher quality picture