Toolkit: Maya - Final Checklist

Intro to Autodesk Maya
modelling
texturing, common shaders, UV maps
geometry types, texturing and lighting, lights and shadows
animation

Due to problems with unavailable videos:
Screenshots of Animation Part 1,2&3:

Digital Sets
old alley

Intro to Character Animation
bouncing ball, pendulum, chain
jumping, can snatch, walk cycle

Screenshots of Animation: bouncing ball1&2, pendulum, chain, jumping, can snatch, walk cycle

Intro to Lighting
whimsy house
whimsy kitchen

Intro to Pre-Visualisation
pan, roll, pitch
dolly shot, crane shot, close up, mid, far camera
contra zoom, camera shake, car crash

Screenshots of Pre-Viz:

 

Intro to Rigging & Constraints
Rigging: Feet, legs, spine, arms, head, neck, final grouping
Leg pistol, eyes, object exchange, tail

Intro to Deformers
Deformers, blend shapes with Inbetweens

Screenshot of Deformers:

Intro to Texturing
Double Sided Shader, Xray
Faked Rim Lights, Transparency
Maya Fur Presets, Fur Hat

Visual Effects 2: Render Layers and Compositing
Stereo camera, software rendering, depth of field, mental ray and render passes

Intro to Skinning
Smooth bind: edit weights, painting weights, adding influence objects, interactive bind

UNIT2: Secret Lairs
pillars
bed and lanterns
pillars and lanterns
general set, hero prop
modelled set
lighting
built up, final set

UNIT4: Fantastic Voyage Commission

eukaryotic cellprokaryotic cell
models: cells, equipment
various stages of maya progression

Toolkit Maya: Intro to Skinning

1. Smooth Bind Part 1: Creating Joints & Edit Weights

2. Smooth Bind Part 2: Painting Weights

3. Smooth Bind Part 3: Adding Influence Objects

4. Interactive Bind & Painting Weights

Toolkit Maya: Visual Effects

1. Visual Effects: Stereo Camera Rig in Photoshop and After Effects

2. Visual Effects: Render Layers - Software Rendering

- Beauty Pass

- Beauty Pass 02

- Photoshop

- After Effects

3. Visual Effects: Depth of Field

- Depth Pass

- Beauty Pass 

- Depth of Field - MAYA

- Depth of Field - PHOTOSHOP 1&2

- Depth of Field - AFTER EFFECTS

4. Visual Effects: Mental Ray & Matte Passes

*for some reason the colours of the shirt and trousers were missing; a warning saying 'texture files could not be found' popped up. I decided to leave it this way as I didn't really know what to do :(

Toolkit: Animation - Final Presentation

Toolkit: Animation
Metamorphose, metamorphose using Dragon, bouncing ball
Pixilation
Flour sack
Follow through
Zoetrope
Quick sketches


Showreel:

Sketchbook:

Animations not included in the showreel:

1. Smell Abstraction 

2. Character Animation - Luca Mitchell

3. Bowling Ball

soon

4. Ping Pong Ball
soon

Toolkit: After Effects - Final Checklist

Toolkit: After Effects
Session #01
Session #02
Session #03

Toolkit: Photoshop - Final Checklist

Toolkit: Photoshop
Free Transform
Patterns, Channels, Masks
Speed Paint
Textures and Speed Paint
Character Silhouette
Daily Speed Paint
Daily Speed Paint #02
Daily Speed Paint #03
Daily Speed Paint #04
Daily Speed Paint #05
Speed Paint Practise
Speed Paint Practise #02
Photoshop Workshops

Toolkit: Drawing - Final Presentation

Toolkit: Drawing
http://samantha-niemczyk.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/life%20drawing

 

Fantastic Voyage: The Prokaryotic Life