Inanimate object research

Maya Joint rigging +Questions

The images above show an arm joint I created that bends with 3 joints. The Outliner tab shows how all the joints are connected to their appropriate point. Questions: Name one thing that non-manifold geometry cannot do? Because of its configuration, non-manifold geometry cannot be unfolded into a continuous flat piece. This is because it …

Lighting on ball

This is an image of a basic ball with two lights on it. One light is in the back left while the other is in the front right and the make the ball have a soft shadow and the surface below has roughly 3 harsher shadows. This was to understand the basics of lighting in …

Arnold robot

This was really hard to make for a first but worth it for the experience! There were two lights in the scene, one noticeably warmer in colour and softer than the other as to compare the differences. We also added the metal texture to the robot so it looked more like a robot than a …

Bouncy ball Animation

https://youtu.be/5krBdYjZBYo   Here is a collage of my process in Maya when creating the animation. You can see the keyframes are marked with red lines and how I stretched and moved the ball to just it a more rubbery feeling when it bounces. I found the graph editor very useful when smoothing out my animation …

Bouncing ball Research

Frame by frame example of a ball bouncing on a floor. Animated example of balls with different weights hitting the floor. So balls bounce multiple times and higher than others depending on the weight. Slow-motion example of a tennis ball hitting floor in slow-motion to catch the squish of the ball.

Maya Space ship city Task

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euZ7cISnNRw Here's is a 12-second animation of a space ship I created, landing on a building in a city. The cityscape was given to us so we could instantly start playing around with cameras and animation with our spaceship. I modeled and colored the ship myself which I attempted a simple design to prevent ruining …

Pixar Short Research

Pixar Animation Studios was founded in 1979 in New York however under another name of Graphics Group. It started as a support and or assistant of Lucasfilm (The people behind the Star Wars franchise). Edwin was hired then later hired the animator John Lasseter to become a permanent member of Graphics group before Steve Jobs …

3D Animation Pipeline

Story - Originating from fiction, Non-fiction, history or personal experiences. The director gives the vision of the animation as a whole, keeping everyone on board and working on a script. The script can develop in a storyboard and then an animatic. Editorial - Responsible to piece together the visual decisions to then be given to …

Asset Management

Asset management is the process of developing, operating and maintaining of assets in the most cost-effective manner. Where by you can file assets with the low possiblity of an error or coruption. When working with files in any software, it is so important that you have a good folder structure. So thhat you're able to …