After making my 3D mock up in Maya, I wanted to make a gif of some fireworks as an example of what I want to project onto the background of our display. I thought this would be a great idea as we are having a dark scene behind the doll house, so a firework would look really charming and stand out, making people want to take a closer look inside the display.
I looked at some gifs of fireworks and liked these ones in particular. I noticed that there are several different patterns and paces that fireworks go in. Sometime they expand outwards, others downwards, and of course some are really colourful. I think sticking to a white firework might be best in terms of my light projection seen as how white works best when projecting from an inexpensive, ordinary projector, as I am thinking of the materials available to us.
I also noticed that fireworks start of fast, but then radiate slowly, which makes them more magical and mesmerising.
From this then, I made my own gif of fireworks behind our display. This took me so long because I spent ages trying to get the timing right. I drew the firework way too detailed in the beginning, meaning I had too many frames resulting in a really slow start up. Once I rectified this, I then spread the firework out way too much so that it didn't look natural, so I tried to solve this by drawing the firework millimetre by millimetre and then deleting frames afterwards in order to achieve an okay looking firework.
I then duplicated this just to see what it would look like with a couple of fireworks and I think it looks fine. I think it will look much better in real life, and if the fireworks are spaced out a bit more. Overall, I think that it is achievable and I am happy to show my group and see their feedback.
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