Maya for 3D Printing - Rapid Prototyping
In this course we're going to look at something a little different, creating technically accurate 3D printed parts.
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If all goes well I may add a gravity feild in there to effect his hair, and if I get that right I might even try some ncloth on his clothing, but then again I'll probably leave that to a future project and just keep practising timing for now.
Thanks for the comments! And I'll look forward to some epicness from you in the future....
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Not sure exactly how I'm doing it either....lol!
But I'm growing in confidence with it quite quickly, so hopefully it'll get better with time. Animation and cartoons were the main reason I started learning Maya so it really helps that you and others are appreciating what I've done so far! Thankyou!
I think once I've got the hang of body movement to a point where I have a decent understanding of it, I'll start on facial animation and try my hand at that. I have a plan to make a short (well, hopefully 20 minute) skate video, which has a bit of a storyline to it, hopefully I'll learn enough to make a decent job of it.
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Then I'll start all over again and create 4-5 new tricks for the final animation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM-DNWsdN9s
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Maybe a bit more weight in some of the stunts would realyl sell it.
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Yeah, I can see bits here and there where I could have made it feel a bit more weighty, I think each one I'm doing I'm getting to see how the timing of it all works a little better though. So hopefully they'll get a little nicer the more I do.
Cheers for pointing that out to me.
I picked skateboarding for this battle for two reasons, one, I did it myself for 20 years so I know the movements involved pretty well, and two, it's got so much variety of movement in it!
Lots of fun being had doing it anyway so I'm happy!
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20 seconds already, you must be loving it!
that last trick seemed like it was sped up at the end just to stuff it into the 20 seconds
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Not really worried, it's only a tester after all, I'll spend longer on the final animation.
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Not sure what to do about his skin at the moment, I've just stuck a blinn on him with a pinkish colour for now and I'll give that some more thought.
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For the purposes of this little battle I won't be doing much more to this part of it, but when the battle is finished I'll be working on it, and the rest of the completed clip, more.
This part needs little bits done to it like animation on the fingers, and the sway of the trees needs a little tweaking too, but I'm quite happy with it so far!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4McsVkO1VY
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Your stuff looks awesome so far. The one thing I would say about the last clip there is that there's not enough contrast in the speed of the trick. I'm assuming the bit where he's doing the board flip is deliberately slo-mo, right? In that case, the lead up to it should be snappier I think, then a really obvious slow down. Just a thought.
I'll be posting some updates someday.
I've got the set mostly finished, but not textured or completely lit yet. I made the mistake of buying Adobe Production Premium yesterday and had to install everything, but I've told myself not to start playing with After Effects, Premier Pro, Photoshop and all that good stuff till I'm done this.
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Yeah, that part where he does the flip is intentional, I didn't want to slow it down any more as when I did try that it just looked wrong, and speeding up the bit before any more looked way too fast, so I was trying for a happy medium.
I also don't really want to spend too much more time on that one clip, (I have already re-done some of the textures to make them a little better, and will re-do the whole thing in the future) as I plan to change his clothing a little for each trick, and I've a ton more of UV mapping and texturing to do.
Only 3 seconds in, 17 more or so to go....lol!
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I'm looking forward to redoing them in the future to make them a bit smoother and tweak them a bit, I can see so much more I could do to them but spending any more time on each trick would probably leave me with about half the amount of footage we agreed to do! lol!
Here's a link to the progress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQC2aNJa0B0
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animation is looking good...
The rename i shows you worked for the files i assume? or was that for a different scene?
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Yep, the file rename worked out alright, thanks for the info! Sorry I didn't get back to you again, it got kinda late and my eyes were almost catching fire from staring at my monitors...lol
That was for the first trick in the animation, the funny thing is I ended up adding 5 frames near the start, but cutting just under a hundred from the end as it just didn't fit! It originally had two tricks in the one sequence, but the second wasn't up to scratch.
Have started on trick number three just now, so hopefully that'll be added in a few days.
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