I went back and re-rendered my fire animation from earlier. I felt it was getting too blue, (da-ba-de-dub-a-die) so I adjusted the lights in the scene as well as the bump-map. I feel that this result is much nicer, although to really polish off this hallway I think that displacement maps would help immensely. I had this […]
Here is my fourth entry for the Merlin’s ball and box project. I ran into some weird bugs with my playblast, and I sorted through most of them, but my resolution gate has vanished on the playblast. I built the animation to be viewed a little bit closer up, and the problem with the resolution gate
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For this post my goal was to take my existing “thumbnail” animation and convert it over to a linear animation. This turned out to be a great opportunity to rework all of my timings and to begin exploring how the animation might play out in a more straight ahead manner compared to the pose to
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So I’ve managed to get quite a bit more work done on my oil platform, though I know it probably doesn’t look like much. I built the vast majority of the base mesh for the upper platform and quaded as much of my geometry as possible as well as put in the appropriate holding edges
So today I was working on the model that I will be using for my oil platform in my upcoming animation. I’ve decided to model my oil platform off of the Aker H-6e rig, which is a sixth generation oil Platform built in 2009 and capable of drilling in extreme conditions to extreme depths. Now
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And here again to go with my work on the SHRC system by OXUS Recovery Solutions I have put together the following outline and thumbnails based upon the second idea that I posted earlier. Idea 2 Action Outline: 1. Satellite view of earth with a hurricane storm off the coast somewhere 2. Camera zooms in towards the
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For my work on the SHRC animation, I’ve put together the following outline based upon the Idea 1 I posted earlier. Idea 1 Action Outline: 1. Oil platform in view, Functioning normally. 2. Camera shakes, lights begin to flash on the platform, possible fires begin to break out. 3. Camera zooms out and downwards to
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This is the third and final video from my work with Lynda.coms Fire and Particle effect’s training series. There is so much that you can customize and change to create the type of fire you’re looking for, it’s actually a bit ridiculous and nowhere as easy as a bit of gas and a match for creating real
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This post is to compile my pre-production work for the Merlin’s Ball project in FOA-O 1302. Merlin’s Box PrePro Brainstorming: The camera opens with a transition from black to a room with torches upon the walls as well as shelves that are littered with books and vials. In the center of the room there is
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This is the second video that I have completed based upon Lynda.com’s Particle and fire effects training series. It has been built and rendered in Maya and composited in Adobe After Effects. This animation makes use of Maya’s nParticles to simulate the snow.
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