For my project, I decided to compose with a simple scene. I had originally planned something much more ambitious, but as the quarter went on I began to feel my energy and motivation slip away.
I like to think of this scene as an analogy of how I feel about the current period of my life. None if it makes very much sense, and if I could find the energy, I'd do a lot more with it. But I'm still able to look at the things that I've done and made and feel proud about them in the end.
The scene consists of some trees, a bunny, and a hierarchically modeled dummy. The user can move the dummy around and look through the world using their mouse and keyboard.
One of the trees is burning on fire. I used a particle system to emit orange particles from the tree to get the fire effect. The color of a particles is based on their distance from the source of the emitter; it starts out white then gets more red over time.
As the dummy gets close to the burning tree, they light themselves on fire!
If I had more time, I would have loved to play more with the particle effects. I wanted to try and get the fire effect as realistic as possible, and maybe implement some user interactivity (e.g. users clicking on trees to light them on fire.)
