This is my final 3D Animation, I used Arc principle in the 12 Animation principles. I’m quite happy with what I’ve done as this is my first 3D animation project and I’ve been using Maya for just a week, but it’s quite similar to 3Ds Max, and I’ve learnt and practised a lot in the… Continue reading Final 3D Animation & Evaluation

As I planed to make my character fly from the bottom to the top , fly around a circle, then fly up and down in the middle, and fly away in the end. I need guided lines to make this route look smoothly and like an arch. As a result, I made 3 temporary polygons… Continue reading Plan for the Animation

I did the rigging and set the keyframes for the animation today,  I used quicktime player to record the experiment in my screen as below and also rendered as a movie format. There is one thing about my rigging that I am not very happy about. When my character flutters his wings, I was assumed… Continue reading Experiment for Rigging and the Animation

I used perspective view while making my whole model, as I used symmetry tool to make the wings, so I assumed the wings are all coming symmetrical, I only realised the wings are not balanced when I started to rig them on the top view… If I checked the wings on the top view while… Continue reading Evaluation for my Model

I’ve found few videos of flying butterflies I liked, the reason I like them as the ways these butterflies fly are very natural and beautiful; in the first video, the butterfly was having fun, it flied around then stopped upon the flower. The second one is my favourite animation out of 3 videos, it started… Continue reading Research for animations of Butterflies

His name is Toto, alter ego of Becky, he is made of different types of woods. His favourite activities are flying and exploring different things in the world, he goes to different flowers to catch nectar everyday, his favourite flowers are pink roses.

I was experimenting different Lightings in Maya, I tried few options, and decided to use the point light for my scene as it looks like a natural sun light since my background is outdoor. The right picture, I put one Point light at the left corner, it looks like a sun on the sky, however,… Continue reading Experiment with the Lighting

I used add loops, Extrude tool, symmetry and smooth tool to make the wings. It takes me a lot of time to adjust the shape with smooth tool, as every time I used smooth tool, my character has increased more poly, that means the character has become more and more complicated, but I have finally… Continue reading Make the wings in Maya

I started to develop my character in Maya, as planned, I used wood texture in his body and build up his body with Polygons (Cones, Cylinder and Sphere). Now he looks like my original character, but I am going to make a pair of wings for him, so he can fly upon the ocean later… Continue reading Develop the character in Maya

These will be my background, Sky with the wavy sea. I create 2 planes, one with Polygon Primitives, one with Nurbs Primitives; the wavy sea that I made in curbs primitives, I adjusted the points on the plane to create waves of the ocean.