Essex Coastline - The Ocean

After I had created two separate scenes for representing scenery in the Essex advert I knew this would not be enough to show the different kinds of scenery around. One of the specifically different types of scenery in Essex is the coastline. Most of Essex is surrounded by beautiful beaches and coastlines so I thought that it would be the perfect thing to show in an advert.



For the ocean I had a rough idea of how to make it. I knew that water can be made to look very effective because I have seen it in many other animations. So, I looked around on the Internet and found a very good and easy tutorial for making an ocean. The tutorial I used to help me with this is shown below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE44k7d_FtI&feature=related

I created the sea by firstly making a plane and applying a specific material to it. The tutorial took me through the many features which could help me make a very effective ocean. I chose a deep blue as the colour of the ocean because the water in Essex is very dark.




I then used the phase feature along with auto key to create a timeline of the phase of the material increasing which meant I was able to create a rippling water effect.