Willy The Ball

Ball with Tail Animated in Maya. For this particular animation, I used 

straight ahead technique instead of pose to pose. 

This was a good assignment to understand stretch and squash.

Combination Kicks Animation

I like Character Animation. This exercise was to understand how Body Mechanics work. 

I had a reference video and i used Pose to Pose animation technique. 

That is, first i gave the key posses. My mentor call these the GOLDEN POSSES. 

The key posses and breakdowns define the action, hence they should be perfect and strong 

which brings out the body language. 

In animation body language is very important to show the characteristics or the action of 

the character. For example in this project the model does not have face, but still

the emotions should be projected through out the animation. 

This can be achieved by giving the Golden Posses. 

Every Animators have one word which they won't forget 

even if they are brainwashed. TIMING. This is 

the most important aspect in animation. So 

getting the time correct is what i did next. We have to main it through 

out the work. 

And a Life savior for me was Greece Pencil. I never noticed this little tool. 

But trust me if you want to get the line of action right, nothing

else is better. With Greece Pencil we can draw on the scene, which allows us to

get the action to the golden level. Best for animators who is used

to 2D Animation. 

Then at last comes tweaking or rather called polishing. I used a bit 

of graph editor for this. Where ever the timing, slow in and out doesn't work 

as we want in timeline, I go for Graph Editor. 

That is it I guess. Oh and I am modifying the ending action of the character, which is pretty

lame in what I did here. It will be updated by this week end. 

:)  

Cloud Simulation Dynamics

Cloud Simulation created in Autodesk Maya.

I created it using 3D fluid container. The cloud shape was obtained 

changing values in texture attribute in fluid shape. 

The colour was given in shading attributes. I enabled self shadow in lighting.

The picture we see below is what we see in viewport. The output

is obtained only in render window. 

The animation was given using expression for time in 

Texture attribute of fluid container. 

Gave batch render and composited in After Effects such as colour

correction, background, lensflare etc. 

Looking forward to upload more Visual Effects.

:)

Bedroom Lighting.

I got the model from 3drender.com.

I started off with light value study. This gave me a clear idea on where light and shadow

must fall. It also helps me decide what all lights to use

and where all to place it. 

Then i gave materials and textures to the mesh. For this lighting exercise, 

I used physical sun and sky, portal lights which will light up the room.

And some more lights to give specular for the objects

and I also used light linking. 

I also used render passes such as Ambient occlusion,

irradience, specular and diffuse. 

And at last for the rays i used parti-volume material and infinite light.

Then I had to composite it in Photoshop to get this output. 

:) 

Lamborghini Lighting And Material

Material and lighting exercise done in Autodesk Maya. 

I downloaded the model from one of the sites. Gave car paint material and gave some changes. 

Then i gave lighting for the scene. This exercise was especially to understand 

and play with material more than light. 

I gave an Ambient Occlusion render pass and 

composite it with Adobe Photoshop. 

 Occlusion gives it more depth and appealing soft shadows. 

:) 

Light Value Study

I love lighting and this is the first light value study i tried. 

Light value study is to understand how light works in a scene. Where light is coming from, where it hits and where the shadow falls. Its very important to know the value of light and shade. 

Usually light value study is done in one material rather than textured output. 

Ever since my Sensei taught me this mehtod, I have been using it for all my lighting works. It helps me understand and feel how light works. 

Oh! And this model was downloaded from 3drender.com.

:)

Character Rigging

Character Rigging Assignment done in Autodesk Maya 2016. 

The character was provided by my faculty. Started off with the joints to create skeleton. 

After Skeleton was completed, i gave IK handles to necessary areas such as Spine, hand and Leg. 

Also gave controls and FK handles for spine, hand and fingers. Used different constrains to connect the controls.

Then Skinning was a bit challenging but with GEODESIC VOXEL method, it made a bit easier. 

After Skinning was completed i moved to Blend Shape for the face. I gave a couple of blend shapes for starters and gave a Face GUI. 

I still got some tiny bugs to fix. 

And of course the Master Control. :) 

 Blend Shapes