Aerial Screw

Hello, my name is Liam, I take an animation class at my high school and my teacher told the class about this project and said we should enter.

For this project I used Maya and DaVinci Resolve.

My original thaught was to make an ornithopter but saw schematics for the arial screw and that inspired me to make this instead.

I used basic shapes to make the screw and a sculpting stamp to make the mountain range. For the people I sculpted a body.

I was able to make a simple rig for the people and bound it to the models pushing the screw and rotating it.

I found basic textures on the internet to resemble the materials I used and mapped them to look more realistic.

I animated the figures to push the aerial screw off a cliff for a test flight while 3 more figures rotate the screw as it falls.

I compiled the rendered frames in DeVinci Resolve and uploaded my video onto Youtube. Depending on how the video is watched the video can look wierd.