NCHS Alumni Blake Whitworth Kickstarter iOS Game

Gnarly Bones Booth Display Ideas

Another New Poster!

Limit Reactor, Overrated Overlord, Wrath Of Inhumanity, and the 10th studio album: Volume Ten.

Almost Done!!!

Yeah, I screwed up on the track list for "Hope Dies Last" & "Finish The Fight" with a few duplicates because I didn't remember what I put down for the first trilogy (Reckless Youth, Envoy Of Another Dimension, & Madness Within Reality). Anyway, here's what I've got and what I'm going to promote at the time. Like how I advertised my Mind Crush EP?! I think it's awesome! I mean, look at the text effect I used on my own! That's crazy! I like it a lot!

Shay's Independent Progress

So far in my process I have gotten my planning and sketches done and I have started to figure out how I am going to color my piece. One of the challenges that I have already encountered was getting the anatomy of the subject of my piece correct. It was difficult to first figure out a pose that would work. Then figure out how the to draw a human body anatomically correct in that pose. I still need to refine my sketch a bit to make it look less cartoon-like but I think I’m getting closer each time I work on my piece. Another challenge I have encountered was learning how make a skin texture correctly and how the skin would look in the lighting that will be in the piece. I think I’m a bit behind in my break down and at the rate I’m going I will have to rush the piece, but I am going to stop messing around in class from now on and focus on the piece. Also if it’s needed I will come in at lunches and after school to further progress on this piece to finish on time, completely finished and portraying the message I’m aiming for.

Reflection of my Independent Project (02-27)

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Reflection:

Challenges-

I suppose my biggest challenge has been how smooth the animations have been. For example, in the hand might ‘jump” out of its original place as well as the steering wheel has been displaced throughout the entire animation. I have worked on the steering wheel so that it doesn’t look too apparent that the wheel has jumped around (it’s more of a gradual movement down, not to the point that it’s noticeable though >.<). The wind shield wipers need some work to ‘smooth’ out, but I feel like I will be an easy fix. I also need to try to slow down the beginning because I feel like somethings are happening way too fast.

I’m nervous about the character looking to his side and seeing the alien, because I don’t know how to transition into new scenes, and I don’t want it to feel jumpy or forced.

I really do think I’ll get my animation done by the end of March. It’s been surprisingly easy and faster than I have thought. I want to spend a few days cleaning up and making the animation prettier, but I’ll save that for the end. Overall, I think that my independent project has been going well. I’m over half way through this project and I feel like it’ll be ready soon.

Independent Evaluation

            

 

            During this composite process I encountered a variety of challenges. The first of the difficulties I faced was actually taking the pictures. I thought that the HDR process would really bring out the surreal element in the photo right from the start since the HDR processed images tend to push the boundaries of photography and come out with a gritty effect. When I set up the photos I had a variety of pictures to take and realized I would need a self timer on the camera in order to get me in the frames which was difficult because I only had 10 seconds to get into position. Another issue with the HDR aspect was I had to stand perfectly still until all three exposures completed which lasted around 30 seconds or else I would get blur. Surprisingly, assembling the photos went quickly because the shots were lined up correctly on the first attempt. Another issue I faced was creating a floor that I was satisfied with. I went through about 4 trials on the floor and finally got what I was looking for from generating it in Maya and bringing it over to Photo Shop. It was also difficult to get the floor pieces to blend once in Photo Shop. Looking at my breakdown I feel that i'm on track because I have a full month to complete as many more of these as I can and they should go more quickly now that I have one out of the way.

20 Frame Poses

***DUE at the beginning of class February 4th and 5th: A minimum of 20 drawn frames of your animation. Think of the key poses ***

Bouncing Balls

Jacob Kiester - Ball Animation

Maya Tutorials

Key search words: Maya, tutorials, beginner, basic, animation, dynamics, particles, modeling, texturing and rendering.

Props

Octopus chair, water bottle, and wood coffee table. :D

Prop models

Thor's Hammer: Mjolnir

Candle stick holder

and fail lokis scepter everyone

3 Props

Rezanina Props

Props

prop model

Maya Bouncing Ball Animation

Your objective in this assignment is to recreate this animation of a bouncing ball. In order to post a video capture of your animation you will need to create a "playblast". You will need to independently/ collaboratively research and find resources that will aid you in successfully completing this assignment.

Some key search words:
Autodesk, maya, bouncing, ball, animation, tutorial, basic, beginner, playblast, keying.

Once you have completed your animation you will post your video onto the blog and then copy and paste the URL of the post into a "Class Discussion" on Schoology.com