Wednesday 25 April 2012

BA Work placement - day 1

For my work placement, I'm working for an AV company (which I must refer to as BA).  We've been given a bunch of tasks, some of which I can't talk about yet, so here's the first day's progress.

  • Modelled an object that I will animate exploding (no further details allowed yet)
  • Looked at abstract animations for inspiration when making short animations for a VJ pack

Tuesday 24 April 2012

Maya Dynamics Tutorials 7

Instancing
Direction Control
Size Control

Goals
Simple Drop
Controlled Drop

Monday 23 April 2012

Saturday 21 April 2012

Maya Final Gather Tutorials

Final Gather
Final Gather
Optimised for Animation

Global Illumination

Software Caustics
Step 1
Composite

MentalRay Caustics

Mia_Material_x

Physical Sun and Sky
Sun Disk Size
Haze Test Strips
Red/Blue Shift Test Strips
Saturation Test Strips
Shadow Smoothing Test Strips

HDR Lighting
Airbase HDR Map
Meadow HDR Map
Street HDR Map

Maya Displacement Tutorials

Maya Software





Mental Ray


Mental Ray (Non SubD)




Mental Ray (SubD)

Mental Ray - NURBS

Maya Depth of Field Tutorials

Camera Controls

Focal Distance = 15
F Stop = 10

Mental Ray Depth of Field

Mia Bokeh Lens


Z Depth Pass


Motion Blur Tutorials

2D Motion Blur

3D Motion Blur
Blade angle 50
Blade angle 180

Mental Ray Motion Blur

No Deformation, Motion Steps = 1
No Deformation, Motion Steps = 5
Primary Render: Rasterizer (Rapid Motion)

Game Character UV layout tutorial









UV Map

Game Character Modelling Tutorial Step 3

 

 
 

Thursday 19 April 2012

Transcription Project - Technical Paper: Tail Rigging

Because the tail is made up of a series of hinges, each with only one degree of freedom, the tail rig has a joint at the pivot of each hinge.

Each joint then had two of the rotate axes locked, so it can only rotate in the same direction as the model hinge.

Add a IK Spline Handle and control clusters
IK Spline Settings

 IK Spline is now constrained so its motion matches the limitations of the model


The same technique was used to rig the spine