The animation has been by far the smoothest task up until now. I only had to animate the camera moving from the house and around the scene. Firstly, I had to create a motion path and then attach the camera to it. finally, I just had to fix the camera aim to the Japanese temple and define the number of frames I wanted my animation to have.
However, the rendering process comes with many issues. If I want to render using Arnold, The image takes about 3 minutes to render, and since I have 960 images, that is not the best option, when Maya Hardware 2.0 is only a second. Of course, there was a problem with the lights (mentioned on the previous page) but since I have enough lights for what is relevant, I will have to stick with Maya 2.0. Also, Arnold can’t process the ocean shader and it deforms the Japanese temple, for some reason.
Update: Maya 2.0 took about 15 minutes to render the whole sequence. After retouching some stuff and re-rendering the animation. I finally have a sequence to put together.
I found a free app that is apparently very easy to use and the process to import the sequence is very intuitive. It’s called Shotcut.
Update 2: The video is complete and I also added some sound to it. I got a soundtrack from YouTube with jungle/alien-like voices. I think it gives the scene more realistic and mysterious.