For the month of July my school class was Art Creation for Games, and we worked through the process of crafting and then implementing a a small map in the unreal engine. So the map was created in the unreal engine, but the assets that I used were all created by me inside Maya […]
So this month in my schooling I am working through Character Rigging 1. and for this month I am building a rig for one of several pre-built characters. I will be creating and developing the skeleton, rig, controls and blend shapes available to the animator, which will be me. I chose to work with Dr.
Here is my final upload for the Merlin’s ball and Box project I was working on for FOA-O. I was called into to work today so unfortunately I didn’t have time or the opportunity to implement some of the final effects and passes that I was hoping for on this project. This playblast is my last pass
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Here is my fourth pass, on my Merlin ‘s box and ball animation, I’ve converted all my relevant tangent’s to a more appropriate type depending on their purpose. I’ve gone through and tweaked a whole bunch of the curves. I’ve also attempted to deal with the points that were brought up in the previous critiques.
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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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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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As part of my Merlin’s Ball animation, I really wanted to add some torches to the wall and possibly even animate the torches catching some other stuff on fire. So I went to see if lynda.com had any training for fire and sure enough they did. This is the first project that I worked on
For my current Merlin’s Ball project in Fundamentals of Animation Online, I have been required to put together blog posts to document my process. I can see the value of this in sorting through existing and upcoming work and especially in relation to putting together a portfolio near the end of my schooling. The project
This blogpost is meant to recap my first pass on the Merlin’s ball animation. With my first pass my primary goal was to build the necessary props and to create a video which is in many ways similiar to my thumbnails that I posted previously. The resulting animation is in stepped mode and has provided
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