Learning to animate and model in Maya.
I’m not really sure what to call what this is but hey, I think its cool and I’m sure that I can find ways to use it. Honestly its pretty clear that deformers will be a useful tool but here I’m just trying to see how large of an effect small changes will have.
I finished a small project fixing the topography of multiple shapes, using the edge loop and multi-cut tool. Smoothed extra to show it was completely fixed.
End result:
Before:
Unfinished, I planned to cause a pencil to roll into a mine, which would then explode. This is the result. the ball is mid explosion
Credit to @macrovector for the explosion texture, link below
Designed by Macrovector
I mean, I kinda messed up the trip and didn’t realize until after I converted it to an mp4. I’m still using this since it was more for practice than the product but… oh well.
I’ve started working on a small animation of a body made of two parts walking and eventually falling, using squash and stretch to exaggerate footsteps without legs. High and low points of the squash & stretch in the pictures. The end goal is for him to walk then trip.
Finished, added a texture, rotation, and adjusted some key frames slightly. Definitely can be fixed in a few ways but the base concepts are down.
I’ve finished the translation keys and started on the scaling, wasting too much time but liking the results.
I’ve started on the ball bounce animation project and have started messing with the graph editor. I’ve got the key-frames set up for translation. Also my file saved as a .1 file rather than a .ma file so I had to restart. Yay for practice.
Multiple issues are appearing in the rendered image, but the general foreground of the image is as expected. I’ll fix this if possible later on.
I’ve mainly worked on the balcony areas, and while they are not well done they are far enough away and dark enough that they should be fine. Going to finish quickly and then either render or finish lighting.
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