Fantastic Voyage: Meiosis and Sporangia redo

The pace ended up being too quick for this, so it will be reworked for the complete animation.

Fantastic Voyage: Fern life cycle

Taking on board the feedback, the primary focus for this is too embrace the 3D a bit more. My models were incredibly flat and the lack of camera use emphasised that. So there has been some readjustments to the storyboard where that is concerned.

The main areas I've focused on for this is; the sporangia, spore dispersion, the gametophyte, fertilisation and developing sporophyte.

I quickly scribbled the new storyboard down to keep it on track:

The fern was remodelled:

 As was the gametophyte:

I've still tried to keep to my simplistic designs from the original concepts:

Maya Submission Post Checklist

Intro to Autodesk Maya:

Geometry Types
Character Modelling Part 1, 2 & 3
Texturing Part 1: Common Shaders
Animation Part 1, 2 & 3

Lighting & Rendering 1: Intro to Lighting:

Exterior and Interior Lighting Part 1, 2, 3 & 4

Modelling 1: Digital Sets:

< In Progress>

Intro to Pre-Visualisation

Animation 1: Intro to Character Animation

The Bouncing Ball Part 1
Settle & Rest: Pendulum
Secondary Action & Overlap: Hanging Chain
Anticipation & Follow-Through: Can Snatch
Walk Cycles Part 1: Mechanics

Intro to Texturing:

Sampler Info Node: X Ray Shader

Summer to-do list:

Texturing Part 2
Lighting & Rendering Part 1
Bouncing Ball Part 2
Squash & Stretch
Intro to Rigging & Constraints
Intro to Texturing
Visual Effects 1: Deformers
Visual Effects 2: Rener Layers & Compositing
Intro to Skinning

CG Artists Toolkit Maya: Intro to Texturing - X-Ray Shader

CG Artists Toolkit Maya: Pre-Viz

Cam Rig:

Pan shot:

Roll shot:

 180 degrees

360 degrees

540 degrees

Pitch shot:

Dolly rig:

Crane shot:

Distance shots:

Coverage:

Camera Shake:

Contra-Zoom:

CG Artists Toolkit Maya: Animation 1 - Arm

CG Artists Toolkit Maya: Animation 1 - Pendulum Swing

Fantastic Voyage: Blend Shape tests

Did a few test animations to get the "morph" transition in, by using the blend shape in Maya. I made some mistakes which halted the progress but I finally managed to overcome it.

The first test is a simple transformation of the spore:

Next is the morph from the spore to the gametophyte, which was done quickly just to get the basic shape of it and to get use to the blend shape:

Fantastic Voyage: Meiosis model

For this the opening animation needs to be worked on to look smoother as the tops slightly come off before reattaching.

Next step is to animate the spores into this scene.

Fantastic Voyage: Fern model

Along with the model I did a quick test animation to get used to the rigging:

The movements obviously won't be exaggerated that much in the final animation, and the plants in the background will also have some movement.

CG Artists Toolkit Maya: Animation 1 - The Bouncing Ball

On the Spot:

CG Artists Toolkit Maya: Animation 1 - Felix Jnr

Unit 2: Secret Lairs Final Crit

Secret Lair Final Crit 13.12.13

Secret Lairs: Avian Dictator Final Render

Avian Dictator Secret Lair Progress

Progress on my Temple scene, originally went for a boxed area but found this limited my space too much.

I modeled the beams to be more curved which opened up more space for me. I also removed some of the pillars as it felt too cluttered. Modeled the statue head and added it into the scene. The bird skulls are currently being modeled on the side whilst I UV map and get the textures down.

CG Artists Toolkit Maya: Exterior and Interior Lighting

Mid Day

Sunset

Romantic

Night

Interior Lighting:

CG Artists Toolkit Maya - Animation Part 1, 2 & 3

Using Rigs:

Using Motion Paths:

Using MEL:

Secret Lair: Temple block out

I had a quick play around in Maya today to try and get to grips with how I want things placed. Will probably work with the placement of the outer pillars more. I also collected a few screenshots of different perspectives to do some overlays to get more of an idea of how I want this shot as well as the lighting.

Secret Lair: Pillar base model

CG Artists Toolkit Maya: Character - Pencil & Eraser

Shaded Model:

Texturing & Shaders:

Lighting & Rendering: