Part-finished animation ......

[Egg Bramhill]

Here's the final version. The lights are now working correctly and I've added a bit of bounce to the barriers and doubled the lenght of the train:

DEMO

[wizard509]

Love it Egg.

[Egg Bramhill]

Cheers Larry.

As a final idea I thought I might try it with the crossing I used as a crib as the background just to see if it would fit. Not to bad as it turns out.

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[ss-kalm]

Brilliant Egg. It works really well.

[Egg Bramhill]

Thanks Keith. To much messing with animations. Of to bed now!

[wizard509]

yes Egg I like it one problem I noticed though is the bounce, the right one does but the left one does not, it's probably been that way all along but I just noticed.

[xtom]

Ha the photo background looks really cool and the little jank on the right barrier as it drops down. Nice work.

[handrawn]

If your eyes followed the train the crossing & lights would move to the right not remain stationary as in my animation, thus my point there is only one POV looking straight at the crossing

the camera POV is static - but the train is not, it moves across the field of view so a POV is moving with it, as surely as if the train were stationary and the camera was focused on it and moving [and the same applies to the barriers which also move]

a form inverse kinematics if you will

the shadow under the front of the train as it enters the field of view being the same as when it is about to leave the field of view is just technically wrong; if something moves then everything that is a child of that object [ie attached to it] must adjust to the motion and the change in this POV accordingly; the shadow aspect will shift

none of this distracts from an excellent animation though

[Acorn]

@Egg, a lot of effort but a worthy outcome.

Acorn