Since then, I have changed my idea to incorporate this previous idea with a few differences, in my new version I have got the 007 logo shatter into pieces after the gun fires, but with the difference of that the gun fires a "bullet" which is actually text saying Casino Royale, which then stays on screen and a background with the different suits of cards appear (taken from the actual intro of the film), this stays on screen for a couple of seconds and is then replaced by "Coming soon, November 2006".
To create this, I simply started by creating the text using the text tool and I set the font and the font size, once I had done this I changed the environment of the scene to lack and changed the text colour to white. After rendering this to see how it looked, I found it was very flat looking and kind of dull, so I used the modifier called Bevel. This allows you to make things look 3D by changing the properties of the text, after being rendered again I saw I had found the look of the text I wanted.
Next, I created the logo to the side of 007, this was done by simply using the box tool to create two boxes and converting them to editable poly's, this allowed me to change the boxes how I saw fit and after some messing about I finally got the logo correct.
The next thing that needed to be done was to create the look of the gun firing and recoiling and then have the words Casino Royale come out like a bullet. This was done using the Auto Key function which allowed me to set key frames where I needed them and then manipulate the "gun" as if it was firing, once I had the gun looking like it fired, I worked on getting the Casino Royale text to come out, this was done by again using the text tool, bevel and then using auto key to move the text like a bullet whilst getting bigger.
After successfully getting this to work, I worked on getting the text to shatter when hit by the guns recoil, this is all using the PArray tools. To use a PArray, you simply click the PArray tool and drag on the scene where you want the PArray effect to work. In this case, I needed to scale the PArray into place around the text. The next thing to do is to select the object you want the PArray to affect, you do this by clicking select object under the properties tab and then click on the object, in this case the 007 text. Finally you need to select the kind of effect you want, you do this by scrolling to the bottom of the PArray's properties and choosing a preset, for my effect I chose the preset called "Shatter", this gives the text a very nice shatter effect but doesn't cause unnecessary effects, such as explosions etc.
After all this had been auto keyed and set out how I wanted it, I had to simply get the background to appear and then change the Casino Royale text with "Coming soon November 2006". This is fairly simple, I created the background as an image and then imported it onto a plane using the materials function and then used the auto key function to change its visibility from 0 to 1 over a few frames, giving it the look of appearing out of black, this same effect was done to the text as well, I simply changed the visibility of Casino Royale to 0 and increased Coming Soon November 2006 to 1.
I am quite pleased with this scene in total as I think its a little something different to the normal and yet it sticks to the tradition of James Bond trailers. There would be a few things I would like to change if i had to redo it, things such as not having just a black background, as this is abit boring, but instead maybe have a smokey background or something that keeps the background from being completely black.
This is my 007 logo and coming soon scene:
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