Paper Airplane Observation

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My goal was to create a animation that portrays a paper airplane’s flight. I wanted the planes to look like they were created by two little kids. I also wanted to planes to race around before breaking a ribbon at the end of the animation. I also wanted one of the planes to crash into the tree and crumble into a ball, while the other just floated away.
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Solution
I was able to easily create and decorate them so they looked like they were made by little kids. After beginning animation I shortly realized that having the planes break the ribbon at the finish line would be too hard. It also wouldn’t look very real because paper ripping ribbon normally would not happen. So I ended up just creating two flags …show more content…

I created a plane with a length of five and a width of five. I then gave the plane the subdivision length of two and width of zero. I then deleted one of the vertices so the plane had a diagonal side. I also deleted one of the other subdivisions to create a scalene triangle. I then extruded one of the sides down. After that I mirrored the object I had created so I had two. I then put the objects together to make the plane. I then repeated that process to create my next plane. After that I decorated the planes with a crayon paint effect with the initials R.A.D and H.H, to give the “created by a child” …show more content…

I created three planes the same length and width as the ground and rotated them 90 degrees. I then positioned them one three sides of the plane. I textured all three with the same sky texture. I also added an ambient light to make the scene a little brighter.
Next I used motion paths to animate my planes. I created two motion paths, one for each plane. After attaching both planes to their motion paths, I edited the vertices to make the movements of the planes more natural. At first I left space between the planes and the willow tree to try and make one of the planes crash and crumble into a ball. But after discovering that wasn’t possible I ended up extending the paths and moving them down so the planes would land on the ground.
After animating my planes I began creating my cameras. In total I had nine cameras that followed my planes around the tree. Two at the beginning were animated followed the planes while they flew and the rest just shoot the airplanes at different

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