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Visual Effects Within visual effects there are many roles that need to be filled in order to create a successful finished piece of work. One of these roles is; Matte Painter Matte Painting is  the creation of virtual backgrounds used to replace action/ photographed places. You work with the environment team to produce things such...

Walk Cycle Peer Review

Assessor name: Maximilian Ansell The key poses are really well spaced out and show the different stages of a step, you have some really good hip movement that is usually missed with a lot of walk cycles. The walk looks very natural, you can see there is quite a lot of exaggeration, especially with the...

Maya Walking Animation Progress

Today I have been improving and adding more details to my Maya walking animation I created in the previous weeks of his project. Now I had the basic walk down, it was time to start adding more details in order to make my animation interesting and fun. Firstly, I went into my graph editor and...

One Two Three Game

Today I have been working on a small project in Unity using maths to create a game that allows the player to click buttons and add to the value displayed at the top of the screen. I began by adding in a simple UI button and Text. I then created a OneTwoThreeGame code that allowed...

Walking Animation in Maya

Today I have been given a pre made rig in Maya that I was asked to animate walking like a human would. First I used videos and images to study the different stages of he walking cycle and establish what positions I was going to have to put my character in to be successful. The...

Walk Cycle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Veye-N0A4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Zw2k7p9vc Over the next 4 weeks I will be animating a rig in maya in order to make it walk like a human. I have gathered these videos, as they will assist me in animating a rig in maya and making it walk like a human as accurately as possible. I can an analyse each...

Animated Short Submission

Over the past few months, I was given the challenge to model a character in Maya and bring it to life by creating an original and fun animation that I could present here on my blog post and in my portfolio. I have had a very stressful yet fun time creating the piece, even though...

2D Side Scroller Progress and Feedback

Over the past 3 weeks I have been working on a 2D Side Scroller game with a nature/forest theme including my fairy character I crated in voxel. I began making my game by using my draw.io levels as reference and recreating them in unity with basic sprites. I then went to previous games such as...

10 Second Cat Animation- Progress (3 Point Lighting and Cameras)

Today, I have continued working on my 10 second cat animation by preparing it for the rendering stage and adding movement onto the cat. I first set up my 3 point lighting system that gives the objects in my scene dimension and shadows. The Key Light sets up the main light that shines onto the character and...

Cat Animation Progress

Today I have been working on the production of my cat animation and I have began by animating the coin on the cats head. I have been experiencing a lot of problems throughout this project such as pivots constantly changing, textures being removed and deformers not working correctly. I created a separate character set for...