Fly transition

The flies follow the man walking and when the camera zooms over his shoulder I need to show what he's afraid of. I imported the flies in and decided to use symmetry and have a larger fly in the foreground. I began by keyframing loc rot from 1-100 with the flies moving towards the camera.

I used the same particle effect as the dropping fly from my fly punching scene, and thought it would look nice to have them leaving different coloured trails. This video was very mysterious and complemented the worry the character was feeling.

I added a cube and gave it particles, importantly increasing the acc z values, which made them move upwards. I played around with the amount, normal, and random values to try to create a fog effect.

I changed the colour but it would not be as simple to make the particles look thicker and bolder, for that I used a halo effect and used a low amount of hardness. I increased the acc z and also acc x making the particles spread out further and faster. Everytime I had to use ALT A to prepare the particle script and then render the animation to see the results.

I added 50 frames and moved the flies to go past the camera, this gave a 'proper' transition as before it was odd that the flies stopped. I was pleased with the largest fly moving into the camera making the scene completely black. I made the particles black but feel they are slightly too dark.

I removed the large fly's particle trail as it created an outline above the 'fog' which isn't what I want. I was very pleased with my final result (below) and its colours and brightness, it sets the mood I want, I really love the glint in the large fly's eyes as he goes under the spotlight lamp.