Childroom 2013

Edit: Final Room

Okey changed plans, my teacher thought I was going "to much animation" when the course is about rendering and modeling. So I had to change focus. What I did was starting all over. 

So this is Felicia's childroom.

Her parents died in an accident and now she lives with her grandparents.

Her grandpa Harold is an inventor. 

Here is one of his inventions. This spider will be animated ( a bit ) 

The mechanics is driven by expressions, the speed of the mechanics can be controlled by an attribute in one of the main controllers.

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This is a school project I'm working on, the goal of the project is to create a childroom and render it with maya software. Im thinking cool toys and action! vivala toystory

Hero:

I created an action figure for my room. He (or she?)  is rigged and ready to play with!

Played around with my rig, created a pretty lame runcycle.
Will be doing much more serious animations later. :)

Toys toys toys. two weeks before project starts. :)

 
Badteddy-bot:
 
Some planing.

 I want the hand to be able to transform in to different weapons.

I want the upper arm to be stretchy.
and I also want the helm to be able to close and open.

Made a quick concept. :)

The rig is done  and I'm ready to start block out my animations :)

Animation Exercises

Here I'll post all my animation Exercises. I'we also been thinking of creating a post for all my drawing- and anatomy exercises. maybe later :)
I'll try to do most of the things on this list !
Have done some basics like pendulum, different ball weights and so on.

hopscotch:

StartRunStop:

Run and jump

Hit by ball

CG Cartoon Character

In this project I'll create a character and make an advanced cartoonish rig for him.

Im also thinking of making a short in the future, and it would be really nice if this character could be a part of it. 

Some rough sketches.

Have been following along one of dt's rigging tutorial for like two weeks..
Right now I don't have so much time to work on this project because of school , even though I get off my bed at 7pm every morning so i get like 3 more hours to spend on this project. (How getting up from bed and stay sharp is possible I think heavily depends on my Magic Morning Formula which is coffe and porridge.. Someone once told me that the ancient gladiators ate porridge all the time and that was why Spartacus, Russle Crowe and all the other gladiators where so fit.
I bet the guys in 300 also loved thier porridge) ....However school isn't all bad, the math and the course about "how computer graphics works" is awesome and has really increased my understanding of the rendering pipeline and all the 3d applications..

Here is my rig,  the mesh is provided by digital-tutors, (will do some more rigging before I start with my own character). The rig got an IK/FK armSwitch and lot of other fancy stuff!
I have also been doing some mel scripting. Like a renaming tool, place joints on vertex tool and some scripts that creates different curve shapes.

Okey.. I'm done skinning my character. The rig is complete!:)

one of my other rigs:

                                             I made the concept, the model and the rig. 

Transformer vfx

Some earlier animation tests.

The rigging is done. 

Nothing complicated as Im still a beginner. 

(Will however push my rigging skills in my next project!)

Now it's time to animate! (Stoked!)

The spider model. next I'll make a proxy and rig it.

(I just swaped my curves from stepped to spline, thats why the wierd animations. 

But it's just for previs. )

(Made some quick thumbnails and then i picked the sillhoutte that I liked and made a quick concept.)