Fight Stage – Andrew Beringer
My concept for Project 4 was to create a fight stage to showcase some animations of my mannequin doing martial arts. Using Adobe Aero I made a stage scene with a floor, trees and mountain backdrop. The main subject of the scene is my mannequin model from project 3 which I customized in Blender. I added two audience characters into the background from Mixamo.
For the interactive element, I created a simple menu of buttons in Adobe Illustrator that allow the viewer to choose different actions for the mannequin to do. As viewers cycle through the different buttons, various Adobe Aero triggers are set off in sequence to hide and show the relevant button prompts, and animate the corresponding 3d models.
Mixamo was a great tool to preview animations from its library on my dummy model before deciding which ones suited my scene best. The main focus is on the mannequin, but I tried to give the impression of a more active scene by incorporating the two figures behind with idle animations.
