Major - the new animatic *UPDATE*

After my minor feedback, I made a few more tweaks to the animatic. So instead of Mr. Leopard being in the middle of the animation, he is now throughout the whole animation.

Maya - Practice Animation

after last week I went back to the animation and was unhappy about a few actions that the character was doing. I changed a bit of the animation so that the character is showing the actions "I am really creeped out". here is the character.

 

Major - Junkyard and carnival environment model

I thought that it was about time I start making my environments, so here is the Junkyard and carnival model.

Maya - Practice Animation

I was given a task to create a quick animation on being really creeped out, so I used the character called Moom to make the animation. here it is.

Major - Props the hospital bed

I was thinking on how I would do the beginning of the hospital scene in Maya. So I have made a model of the bed that Laura will be laying on for the hospital scene.

Major - Old Mr Leopard character skinning Blending the Upper Body and Lower Body

Now that the weights are on the character, the next part of skinning is to go back and blend the weights of the upper part of the body. This is so when I move a character they are moving more realistically. However, this will not give me everything I need regarding moving a character more realistically. as well as the lower blending focuses on the realistic movements of the legs, knees, ankles and the ball of the feet. This is the Old Mr Leopard character.

Major - Mr Leopard character skinning Blending the Upper Body and Lower Body

Now that the weights are on the character, the next part of skinning is to go back and blend the weights of the upper part of the body. This is so when I move a character they are moving more realistically. However, this will not give me everything I need regarding moving a character more realistically. as well as the lower blending focuses on the realistic movements of the legs, knees, ankles and the ball of the feet. This is the Mr Leopard character.

minor - Mum character Facial Rigging Part 1 Creating Head Controls & An Eye Look Rig

So this is making controls for the head so that it is easier to animate and make the eyes move with controls as well.

 

minor - Mum character Facial Rigging Part 1 Creating a Head Skeleton & Binding

Much like the body, I needed to make a skeleton on the head to move the neck, jaw and upper part of the head, then adding some weights onto the character, so it runs more realistically. This is for the mum character.

Minor - Reflective statement

For this project I feel that I have gotten better, I think that my skills and knowledge have improved a lot. There have been some moments where the work was not quite there, and I needed to be quicker during this project, but I have improved on them by making changes and trying to make it better. I feel that I am more capable of getting the work to a high standard than I was before, I think that I'm getting more and more confident working in Maya although it takes me a long time in order to get work done I feel like I am starting to understand how to make characters and rig them. I’ve gotten to a point where asking for help in getting feedback to make my project better it’s becoming more natural for me, and I will continue to do so in future Projects. One thing that has been a problem for me in the minor project is the speed that I’m working at, I feel that I definitely need to hurry up with work whether it be rigging a character, create a new character, drawing and animatic work. I think that I need to hurry up and get quicker at doing these tasks that take too long due to understanding how to do this and see how it works when I should be going to a tutor for help, it’s something that I definitely need improve on and Practice at getting quicker.  I managed to demonstrate that I was able to do specific tasks within the time frame, I think I have worked hard, and minor has helped me see how I can be more independent within my working and how I need to make myself faster at producing work but at a high quality.

Minor - Submission post

Here is my Minor Submission that includes:

     - Making of Mr Leopard
     - Mr Leopard Animatic
     - Mr Leopard character Turnarounds

minor - Mr leopard character turn around

here are Turnarounds for my 4 characters.

minor - Mum character posing body

Now the the body rigging is done i decided to put her in a pose to show off her functions.

Minor - Making of Mr leopard

here is a making book of my project thus far with all the details from premise to minor so far, please enjoy.

 

minor - Mum character Rigging Colour and Restraints

Colour and Restraints is colouring the controls and adding some restraint so the joints don't go crazy.

minor - Mum character Rigging Arms & Fingers

The arm and finger rig is adding controls to the Clavicle, shoulder, elbow, wrist and fingers to help with animating. This is the mum characters Rigging Arms & Fingers.