History of British Rock - A Problem

History of British Rock - A Problem

Ok so I've started doing some initial sketches and drafting some ideas for my final element, that I'm now calling the history of British Rock. and would you believe it I've run smack straight into a huge problem. Anyway watch the video that I made of it so far just so you know what I'm talking about.

Ok just to let you know I knocked that up in a few minutes just to illustate a point, I now it's not the best thing you'll ever see. The problem I have is perspective. If the camera is panning along as it is the view of the streets would change depending on what angles you look at it from. So as I planned to have a simple flat image and stick some animation on top, I now realise that the image will just look flat and rubbish so I need to find a way around this.

I've got a couple of ideas but unfortunately none are easy the, first is doing it with shapes in flash, the second is actualy building a model of the street and carefully moving across it with a camera and then using it as pixelation.

However I want to push the boat of as much as possible, so the path I'm going to choose it doing it in 3D. It's probably the hardest way to do it, but the animation will be much easier to do. I will have to model my characters (important musicians) but I'm going to make them look very simple to save time and not spend nearly as much time on them as with my avatar. Also I want to test myself as much as possible, there's no point playing in safe all the way, I want to focus on 3D work next year so I might as well use it now. Plus I also know that if it does turn out to be impossible I can knock up a really simple one in flash, but I don't think it will. So yeah, I'm not going to focus on this project for the minute though, because I'm going home for easter so I can knock up my comic book and my logo while I'm at home on Flash and then come back and focus fully on my 3D work.