Saturday, May 26, 2012

3D Animation Class Final Project

Final animations for Diablo Valley College's 3D Animation and Modeling course were due this week.  Here's mine!



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The texture maps were somewhat basic, but they worked.  Folks were particularly interested in the sky texture, which was made quickly in Photoshop with a high-scatter custom brush.
Storyboards were equally basic, but appropriate since we weren't expected to animate anything too complex.  As the beginning-level course, most projects were around ten seconds or so in length.

 On a tangential note, the below screenshots were taken before tweaks were made to the butterfly thwacking segment.  They weren't the result of any problems; this was just how Maya interpreted the change between two keyframes spaced 4 frames apart, and I thought they were funny.