Ark Gameplay and Animation Spotlight

          As part of the showreel I wanted to have the game I worked on for part of the course shown in the background whilst the animations I did for it were spotlighted in the foreground. This is something I am going to have to play around with later when compositing the video in After Effects (A.E.), but for now I have recorded some game play and have rendered out the different animations found in the game.

Ark Gameplay

With doing it in this fashion I can later choose whether to have a few seconds dedicated to actually showing the gameplay on it's own, but for now I think having it in the background whilst the animations are showing in the foreground to be the best choice. I may even have the animations shown in the bottom left whilst the gameplay is shown. I'll also need to crop the video slightly to remove the window border, but that is easily done in A.E.

Here are examples / W.I.P's. of the spotlighting of the animations, with variations of placements:

W.I.P.-2 Background gameplay, foreground animations

W.I.P.-1 Background gameplay, animations to the side to allow in-game animation to be seen.

I have the animations and gameplay as separate renders, so I think testing the different placements in A.E. will be where I come to a final decision on how to place them.