M and M - Maya Tutorials - Hi Res Body

And with this I finish the Maya tutorials. This is the body that we have been working on so far. I'm really happy with the outcome, and I love the fact that it started as nothing and we made it into this.

Here is the progress:

1:

2:

Completed (so far):

M and M - Completed (First Draft) Esting

And after five weeks, here is the Esting that I have created.



I payed special attention to keeping my 'key' words inbedded into the foundation of the project, as well as appeal to the target audience of E4.

The improvments I would like to make are:

Improvements to the smoke trails coming from the rockets
Transitions from inside the TV to outside the TV.

Here is a 'Making Of' chronicly my progression:

Earl Mills - Esting PDF

M and M - Maya Tutorials - Ncloth and Matchmoving car

The Ncloth tutorials:



The Evil robot lady with her car:



I had a few issues with this one (Matchmover and Maya arguing) so I had to improvise. I think I was able to get it done as needed and close the final product using what I could with Matchmover and Maya but I plan to come back to this later to refine it and get the two to cooperate...

M and M - Maya Tutorials - Hi Res Head

Over the past few weeks I've been doing the Hi-res head around the other tutorials and finally finished it today. It takes a long time to create the head, but every time you step back and look at the progress, it renews your passion to see it through. Here is the progress:

And this is the finished Head:

Know to start the body and finish the final tutorials of Year 2...

M and M - Maya Tutorials - Passive/Rigid 3

The next set of tutorials featuring the passive/rigid body techniques:

M and M - The TV screen animation - Raw & Old

So I've been doing the animation that will be seen on the TV and where the objects that fly out start from. To do this, I created a seperate scene from which I animated it as usual. I then rendered it out and brought it into After Effects to create an 'old TV broadcasting look'.

Raw Rendered footage:



Old TV broadcasting look:



I've now converted the video to an image sequence so I can use the Movie Node in Maya to display the TV screen and animate from there.

M and M - Maya Tutorials - Manual tracking with Matchmover

This time we used manual tracking for a more precise appoaching to implementing objects into a scene:

M and M - Maya Tutorials - Autotracking with Matchmover

The lastest tutorial using the Autodesk MatchMover application and of course, Maya.

M and M - Texture Models

So I've been working away on getting the models textured up. There not 'textures' but they serve the function that is needed of them, as there aren't any moments of when you get a real good look at them:

(Texture for the ribbon like thing that comes out the TV)

M and M - Maya Tutorials - Passive/Rigid 2 & Matchmoving

The continuation of the Maya Tutorials...

Passive/Rigid Bodies Collection:



Matchmoving: