Flash, Rendering and After Effects

After I created the animation and set up the scene in Maya, I rendered it out. The next thing I had to do was put it into Flash. I had created the advert in Photoshop without the E4 and also crated the seats to go over the scene also in Photoshop.

I imported the image sequence form Maya into Flash (making sure it was a png sequence so would not have a background). I then imported the advert image behind the image sequence and the seats in front of the image sequence.

This is what it looked like:

I added some lighting in Maya to light the scene.

When I went to render it, it would not export it as a Quicktime .mov or a h.264 .mp4. I don't think there was anything wrong with my file but Flash kept crashing. To get around this, I exported it as another image sequence.

I took this image sequence into after effects and added the other scenes to it. The other scenes were mainly still images but they were not on the screen for very long.

Here are the other scenes:

This was created by Sarah and I added a fly to this scene so that it wasn't just a still image. It was just a black dot with a simple animation to give the impression of a fly.

The cinema scene shows everyone in their 3D glasses. It makes it more obvious that they are watching a 3D film.

This is the end scene and was created by Lily. This is after the E4 has fallen.

After it was all put into After Effects, I just had to add the sound and sound effects of the fly. I then exported it to create a .mp4 file.