A few days ago, I was doing really good progress when it came to rigging and animating the dino plushy in Maya 2023. At this point, I was super close to completing the rigging, i just needed to combine and weight paint everything. This was actually right before I encountered the big bug of Maya …
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Dino Plushy Tutorial: Animation Final
Today, I was able to rig, animate, render and finish the Dino Plushy Tutorial in Maya. Despite the short time we had to work on the multiple 40 minute tutorials, we were given almost two weeks to work on the 3 10-minute tutorials. The hardest part was probably rigging the legs, as somewhere the IK …
Dino Plushy Tutorial: Xgen
Today, I was able to finish the Xgen tutorial for the Plush Dino in Maya 2023. For this, I didn’t have any big issues at all. The only small problem I had was that the plush was a bit too shiny, but that was my fault and I was able to fix it relatively quickly. …
Dino Plushy Tutorial: Texturing and UVMapping
Today, I finished Part 2 of 3 for our Dino Plushy tutorial in Maya 2023. Today has gone pretty well with only minor issues. One problem I had was that the knit texture wasn’t showing as good on my end as it did on the tutorial, and trying to fix it resulted in it looking …
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Dino Plushy Tutorial: Modelling
Today, I completed the beginning model for our plushy dinosaur. So far I do like this assignment, but the tutorial has some issues and hard to follow things, so it’s slowing me down and making me take much longer than it should to complete. I really like how my dinosaur has came out so far, …
Ball Bounce Animation Assignment: Final
Today, we finally completed and submitted out Ball Bounce Animation Project in Maya 2023. If there’s anything we should take from this we will need to rush a lot more in projects in the future, and i mean a lot, what we have here was rushed to all hell and it was still submitted a …
Ball Bounce Animation Project: Storyboard and Asset List
Ball Bounce Animation Project: 2
Today, a lot more progress was made on the Ball Bounce Project, but a lot was also scrapped. My partner and I tend to add as much detail and quality as we can, but as we unfortunately learned today, we have to rush if we want to finish any of our projects this year. A …
Ball Bounce Animation Project: 1
Throughout the past few days, Seth and I have been working on the Ball Bounce Animation assignment we were given. So far, we have no started on the animation yet, and are still building the scene. Seth has been able to make the scene and the placement of where things will go. I have been …
12 Principles of Animation Animations: FINAL
Today, I was able make, render, and compile all my Animations into one video and finish it up before we ran out of time. I’m really happy with how some of these came out, I think they are some of the best I’ve made to date. My favorite one to work on was Exaggeration. The …
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