!!! ANIMATION !!!

Hi people.

Finally animating and its awesome fun. its nice to get away from the rigging and set up stage and finally make it to this point. Today me and Vykintas started a few shots and they are roughly finished, perhaps just a little polishing and all is well.

We decided to create play blasts for each shot created and then integrate them with the animatic to get a feeling of how the final animation would flow.

I'm now also at the stage when I'm beginning to pad out my dissertation. Just taking all the quotes Ive been gathering and placing them into a word doc according to the contents page. Hopefully this method will make the job of writing a little easier.

Anyways, here is one of the rough scenes so far.




Mike

:)

Rigging and dare

Hi people.

Currently just finished rigging properly, as there were a few minor issues i had to deal with regarding the rig. Other than that I have been focusing more on dare this week. Building, texturing and rigging a character to submit as possible artwork. I'm not allowed to show any pics at the moment but will as soon as i have the permission.

I'm going to do a bit more for my dissertation today and hopefully it'll help loosen of the tight schedule i have running now, 4th year is certainly a toughie.

That's all for today

Mike

:)

Update

Here is the model made for dare :D

Rigging

Hi.

Right I've been spending the last couple of day's rigging up the human character for the animation. this includes blend shapes painting weights and all the lovely bits and bobs associated with it. I sped up the process by using a Mel script called Rigomatic. This helped a lot with the back and legs. However I rigged the rest myself for better control.

I've found I have achieved a better understanding of Maya going through this process even though the program often insists on playing up.

Any way enough waffle here's an image of the human posed.


Mike

:)