Treasure Chest Project - Stage 4: Animation

In class we started the scene assembly where we imported the assets for the scene and started animating the camera, the lighting and the assets within the scene with the exception of the chest.
We were provided with a basic chest which we animated around and I used this scene for my final animation and I put my treasure chest in it and added a bit more to it.

I duplicated the sand used as part of the background and I scaled it down so it would sit in the top of the chest base and then I covered that in gold coins. This made the chest look full and any gaps seen between the coins would be yellow anyway.

I have two crabs in my scene. One that comes out from behind the chest and stands in front of it 'clicking' its claws and another that stands on top of the gold in the chest when it opens holding a gold coin in one claw in the air whilst 'clicking' the other claw.

For the shells and the starfish I simply scattered them down on the board and had them rise up from it after it opened up. I animated the trees in a similar way making them 'grow' up from the board fairly quickly and all at the same time. The grass I used to surround the board however I left it stationary as part of the background rather than animating it.