Grandfather Clock

Grandfather Clock

For this assignment we had to create an animation that related to time in some way. For this project I decided to create a grandfather clock. I would have thought of something more creative to make but I decided on the clock because I was preoccupied by another project at the time so I wanted to create something that wouldn't consume too much time.

To create the clock I started out with a rectangular prism and hollowed it out and made four differences on each of the sides of equal height and width. I extruded off of the difference sides to create a window on each side of the clock. To add detail I extruded off of the bottom and made a base. To create the pillars I just used a lot of the basic polygons and copied it four different times. I created the top of the clock by making a cube and differencing a cylinder through it. After I finished modeling the clock I would rotate the hands 360 degrees around the face. To do this I had to move the minute hand 360 degrees every 60 frames and the hour had moved 30 degrees every 60 frames. I repeated this until it looked like clock had gone by 12 hours. 

Even though I only spent a couple of days on this project It gave me more practice on using keyframes and mechanical modeling. I also got to practice three point lighting.