Animation : The New Perspective: Autodesk Maya

Lighting Class

This week, we explore again about lighting of the bedroom. Our Going Live Project animation scene will be inside the house. That's why it's important for us to understand about how we gonna get lighting from the outside and the reflection of it.

So, we use the same file with last semester bedroom to create the new light and I understand more when doing this practice again. It depends on how we understand the balance of light that can go through the window and how the colour of environment can reflect your whole lighting.

We use directional and point light for this tutorial and play a lot with the colour of the outside environment to create a good tone and mood to this bedroom.

2/19/2016 08:00:00 pm
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Bounce Ball in 3D

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Today lesson in 3D class was bouncing ball. I have created bounce ball in 2D before and it was pretty much fun to do it in 3D. We adjust a lot of think in Graph Editor and I become more understand on how to use it now.

Here my footage of bounce ball that have squash and stretch. Most of the adjustment of the speed and momentum had been done in Graph Editor. The effect of squash and stretch give a dynamic momentum to the animation and make it to look more realistic.

Stretch

Squash

Stretch again

2/12/2016 09:26:00 pm
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Lip Sync in 3D

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This week for 3D class we had done a lip sync using Maya software. In my previous work, I was one of the team member of lip sync for 2D animation in Animasia Studio Malaysia. I can relate my previous 2D lip sync with 3D lip sync, but it was a little bit different when in 3D they always give us an easy way to make it smoother using the graph editor.

Here, I show several mouth shape that I use for this sound clip.

Zero shape

AI shape

O shape

MBP shape

E shape

U shape

Rest shape

2/05/2016 11:30:00 pm
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Run Cycle in 3D

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This week for 3D class we had a lesson for run cycle. There are several step that is look the same with the walk cycle basic, but it has a jump pose to make the character look like fly in the air. We also look at how to use the graph editor to smooth the animation and I have a good understand this time on how to use it..

Jump pose to make the character look like run in the air.

1/29/2016 10:30:00 pm
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Maya Class is Back

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We start this semester for Maya class with this walk cycle. It's have the same principle with 2D animation walk cycle. We use 25 frame per second and using the handout that Sean already provided to us, it's seem more easier than it look.

I need to improve and learning on how to fix the Graph Editor and make this animation walk cycle to be more natural.

1/22/2016 08:00:00 pm
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3D Character Modelling Already Done!

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So, I have finally done textured my model and have full image of her. I satisfied with my model textured and it come out as a good result for me. I also had done a composite image for my character in the middle of forest and I'm quite happy for the result.

12/10/2015 07:09:00 pm
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Character Joint and Hypershade

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I had finished modelling my character and also done on putting all the joint inside this character. Then, I try to use hyper shade to make this character in colour mode. I'm good to go to the next level on texturing and UV mapping but I'm not quite confident to do the rigging because I'm still learning and I will take a long time to do it.

12/08/2015 11:01:00 pm
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Character Modelling

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So from Friday until Saturday, I try to finish my character modelling before do some rigging. I start to make the braid of her hair and correct her face topo.

Then, I combine the hoodie with her body to make it as one clothes. I also combine all her costume ear, and here is the result that I pretty much satisfied.

At the end of the day, I manage to finish my character in Maya and ready for doing some pose.

This is how my character look from the back.

Here is my final character.

12/05/2015 10:53:00 pm
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On Going Process 3D Modelling

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Today, I continue on modelling my character. I start to model her hand and nail. Luckily before this, I have model a hand on Sean class.

Then, I model my character head using a plane. I just need to model for one side and duplicate the head after finish. The head topo is not good and I need to amend again her face.