3D Animation, the bouncing ball
My first animation in Maya. It is a bouncing ball. To do that we used an Animation. To edit the ball path I used Create Editable Motion Trial. I moved the points up and down to make the bouncing look more realistic.
In my spare time, I practised a little bit more complicated ball bouncing. I added platforms. The picture on the right present path I have chosen for my purple ball. I moved around the points to make the path looks like real bouncing from the platforms.
3D Objects Animation
Animated sack of flower.
Today we learned how to animate a bigger and more complex object.
Arm and legs
From the sack of flower we moved to human body parts. It is more difficult and complex. The videos above show how I build the arm and legs and animate them. I model simple polygons in Maya, connect all the joints to make it works like one piece.
Walking
On today lecture we focus on walking. Then we added more details to it.
Assignment
The first assignment was to bring the ball to live. I improved the video I made as an exercise after the first lecture. Animation in Maya is completely new for me. I am improving my skills and I believe this video is a good proof of that.
Assignment 2
The second assignment we have is about character animation. I have made an angry walking boy. At first, I animated basic steps and hand movements. After I have done that, I was going back to each step and I added some more details.
unfortunately, I wasn't able to render the video as I had an issue with Eleven Rig face and eyes. I was able to fix the eyes but I couldn't do much about the face. It was just black and it didn't catch any light.
Head turns and arms
Posing
Unfortunately because of the bug with Eleven Rig, he is missing one eye and I wasn't able to fix it.
Assignment 3
The last assignment in this semester was more complex as we had to do 11 seconds of animation with music. I decided to use the previous animation I made (Assignment 2) and extend it. I added ball and flower. Eleven Rig is not in a good mood and kicks the ball when she meets it on her way. Then she sees the beautiful flower and decides to pick it up.