Dining Table Design and Animation

*** My previous attempts at a dining table animatiion have been slightly too complicated, fast paced and unclear. I therefore realised how important it is for me to really limit the information I attempt to portray through the animation in order to make it more effective ***

Final Development of Dining Table within UT2004:

I really want to portray the dining table as the 'soul' of my overall design, representing the inner power and strength of clients with a glowing, bold, strong design.

Final DRAFT:


After creating this animation, I found that it doesn't completely effectively highlight my dining table for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I think that I have tried to show too much too quickly in the allocated time frame allowed, therefore making the animation a bit confusing and busy, ultimately taking away from the dining table design. Further, I think I have allowed too much fog in each frame of the animation, making the design slightly unclear.

Final Animation:


I am really happy with this final animation. I think it shows off the dining table extremely clearly without attempting to show every single side of it, which took a lot of trial and error in order to limit what I wanted to display. The movements of the animation highlight the dining tables best and most interesting angles as well as revealing them long enough for the viewer to absorb it instead of bouncing around the entire design. Visually, I think it is quite subtle and light yet also leaves some powerful images, creating quite an interesting representation of the clients inner power and strength through a dining table's design.