Jennie's Animation Blog

Class Exercises (Maya Things)

http://artiswizardjenz.tumblr.com/tagged/Class_Exercises/

Vogler 

http://artiswizardjenz.tumblr.com/tagged/vogler/ 

Driving Miss Daisy 

http://artiswizardjenz.tumblr.com/tagged/Driving_Miss_Daisy/ 

15 Second Animation 

http://artiswizardjenz.tumblr.com/tagged/15_second_Animation/

Floating City 

http://artiswizardjenz.tumblr.com/tagged/Floating_City/

Head Modelling 

http://artiswizardjenz.tumblr.com/tagged/Head_Modelling/

Own Work 

http://artiswizardjenz.tumblr.com/tagged/My_Own_work/

Portfolio 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14MfieHyUfi-RlXTqMKEuu6Zqoyp2Zjr4CTXrM_uiS0U/edit#slide=id.p

Final Rendered Version 

Feedback 

Here is a video with my two final rendered scenes. 

It took a while to get to this point because I kept failing at rendering.

When I was working on my scenes for the final animation I posted playblasts onto the facebook group to get feedback.  Anna was very helpful when it came to giving me feedback on my animations.

Link to some of my playblasts and stuff 

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BwVn3R6fiSE4fk5UVWZxYWhtdnc4NW9nOVFGeWZnSWxwc0RqY1RIVV9RMm1EclNyY19IaTg&usp=sharing

These photos are just a collection of things that were wrong or I just did by accident. 

The video down below shows a problem I had with the face and trying to scale it. Anna suggested to scale face to help the animation of the face go smoother but mine didn’t let me and I wasn’t sure why. 

I added some materials to my fridge to make it more interesting. I made a 360 view of it (Playblast only I can’t seem to make a full rendered version for some reason). I also had a go at rendering an image of it like Edward has with all his models. 

This time I used the cupboards I made and played about with the materials again. I also adjusted the lighting when I was rendering it. 

After feeling pretty useless for the group since I don't quite get Maya yet, I looked up the Maya Learning Channel so I could learn some of the things they were doing. 

Although doing this probably isn’t very helpful towards the group but I feel like I need to learn these things. 

With the cooker Model I created for the kitchen I decided to play about with the shaders. While I was doing this I did run into some issues such as the handle on the bottom not showing the materials and the top cylinders not showing in the rendered view. To fix these I found that there was another handle on top of of one so I deleted one and replaced the material. To fix the cylinders I just made them larger.

Screenshot of the materials

This is just some rendered images of it.

360 View Playblast 

The video I used to get information on this - 

I used the model Anna uploaded onto the group and I changed the shape of it a bit. 

Image below shows the shape I created based on the design we chose.

This image just shows a pose I done with the rig I made.

I tried out Edward’s new bread rig but I have yet to get back to animating again. I wanted him to jump but i’m not sure how to get a piece of bread to jump...

Although my team came up with a plan for this week I felt like I couldn’t help them. They all had something to do and I felt like I couldn’t do anything since I don’t know Maya like they do.

So I decided to go to the library and find some books on cinematography and animation in general. I felt like this was really helpful because I haven’t been feeling very good recently and I don’t feel very confident about my work and being there. I haven’t contributed as much as I should but I feel like it’s hard to with this group or maybe it’s just me.