Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2
This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with
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u like?
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The modeling could do with a tweek. Also for me, personally I'm not really with the colour scheme.
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the timing and effects were cool but as gster said, what was it for?
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Dont get it...
Not much in the way of animation, and tbh, looked a little dodgy.
Anyway I dont get it
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thanks for the comments though
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Agreed. What's with the thread title? Next time post something a little more useful, or relevant. You can ask in your post if we like it.Originally posted by R@nSiD
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Dont get it...
Not much in the way of animation, and tbh, looked a little dodgy.
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I thought it was pretty good - the camera moves were nice and i thought it was well edited. might be nice to get some variation and detail with the figures, but i can also see you were also going for a simple look.
i liked the way that they had their arms against them and then beating to the music and i liked the green dinosaur a lot
though the title screen looked a bit lazy.i might try a newer song - i like the prodigy and mindfields, but it just makes it seem a little dated to me. that's minor though.
it'd be really cool to see a wip progress thread of one of your animations - they're always funny - that car race was crazy!
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Exactly man, but the prodigy dated!! Comon man!Originally posted by arran
hey - danotronXX can call his thread whatever he likes! it's just about getting you to look at it.
Yeah Dantron, I would really like to see some WIP's of your stuff, maybe the collective minds of SM would help you out!
Looking forward to the rest of the animation, just didnt get the intro.
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nothing wrong with a bit of charly though.
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yea maybe it wasn't enough of a vid for a post but at the same time ive seen people post bouncing spheres and then people getting orgasms out of them.
yea excellent point on how the song is outdated. I've noticed I've been doing that rather often with my recent work. I was listenin back to the matrix soundtrack and figured how sweet it sounded and hoped nobody would recall but I was dead wrong lol.
yea I'm currently working on 3 movies currently. 2 of which have a deep storyline and cool martial arts scenes and another thats a comedy with very cheesy 2d and 3d animations. I'll probably get hammered on critiques for that one lol but i dont care too much, i think its turning out pretty funny in my book.
again, tks for the comments and keep them coming, they make my next movies better than the last!!
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Here's some of my thoughts...
1) The white guys look very familiar. Is that character your design or did you 'borrow' it from somewhere? Can't think of who's reel I seen it on, but the main idea of it was that they made fun of the T pose in it. If I find it I'll post here.
2) The blue guy swinging his arm needs fixin'. His arm is all out of shape when he bends it. Unless he is following your idea of "cheesy" animation, then you hit it spot on. The T-Rex also needs some animation work.
3). I agree with everyone else in that there is absolutely no subject matter in it. If it's an intro to a show, then why not show some clips from the show?
I will say that I like your camera control. Very creative movement there.
The thing about beginning animators is that they tend to see things in their own mind that they think is kewl and expect the rest of us to also see it while giving us little information to go by. Your ideas might seem kewl to you, but unless your audience also thinks that, then you have failed.
There is a phrase that, as an animator, you must live by... "Show us, don't tell us". Your films must express fully your ideas and insights rather than leave us asking questions or have us guessing as to what you were trying to express.
Oh, and don't knock the bouncing ball animations. ALL beginning animators should do it. It's the basis for learning timing, anticipation, weight, squash & stretch, as well as a few other principles of animation. Anyone can bounce the ball, but not everyone can animate it. Can you? I sure would like to see you try.
As for the name of the thread... eh... I'm 50/50 on it. You're welcome to name it what you like, but it would be more helpful to put a subject to it. Something like... "Animation: Critiques & Comments Please". Also something in the body of the message would be nice. Posting anonymous links could be misconstrued as an attempt to defraud the TOS here and get you banned. Please include at least a description next time.
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