Project 1 - Planet Animation

Name: Dylan Love

Date: 9/16/2025

Part 1: Tutorial

Part 2: Changes

Changes made:

• Made the background blue (like how the sky is) (if it wasn't raining today)
  • I like the contrast of celestial bodies against the backdrop of an earth-like blue sky
• Had the camera move around the sun instead of staying stationary
  • Initially the camera was supposed to focus on Pluto as it orbited, but it was harder to keep track of the rotation that way
  • The camera rotates 360 degrees for every 720 degrees the planets rotate
• Gave the sun a checkerboard pattern
  • Makes the rotation of the camera easier to keep track of
  • Note that the sun is also rotating
• Made the rotation of all of the planets linearly increase to the keyframe values instead of accelarating and decelarating to those values

Images:

making the background blue... (it looks different since I had to recreate the effect) (I forgot to take images while making the changes)

moving the camera... (images can't show motion: take my word for it.)

recoloring the sun...