Overall Project Goals & Week 1

Independent Project Starting Goals

I will be attempting the modeling of a snowy mountainous landscape, the creating of a digital analog of a red fox, and the rigging an animation of the fox in that landscape. The end result will be a cinematic intro to my FoxTale logo, which can be seen at http://i.imgur.com/WZ08s.jpg. I will fully model the fox, which should be an interesting experiment in using maya’s fur tools. The snow on the landscape is something I haven't done yet either.

In total, this project will produce around 3-6 seconds of footage, which means that although I am only creating one scene, I will need to render around 72-144 individual frames. I have prior experience in video editing, so assembling the final product should not be too much of a challenge.

I will be calling this endeavor the “nog project” after the Welsh name fox fox, “llwynog”. Apart from the weekly blog posts, I will have a running progress log at http://stephenbelden.imgur.com/nog_project_development.

Week 1: Feb 21 - Feb 25

I will be modeling the fox first, before the landscape. By thursday I will have all of my orthographic views sketched an put into maya, and I will have a rough 3d modeling of that.