Final Project Storyboard

This is my storyboard for my final project. My final project will consist of a short scene. The scene is going to start with a wide shot of a person and a record player on a table. The person then will move towards the table with the record player and the camera will move towards the record player. We then see a close up shot of the person's hand moving the needle onto the record and the record starts to play.

I also wanted to add music when the record starts to play, I think that would add a lot to the scene. 

Texture and Lighting Models

For this week, I made two different models, both using lighting and texture within the model. The first I made a bed, which included a few different kinds of textures as well as a spotlight. The second model I made was a simple chess piece with a spotlight and a texture on top. On the bed which you can see below, I used a wooden texture as well as a cloth texture, which are both 2D textures in maya. I did not run into too many problems while making these models but I wanted to change the wood on the posts to make them more realistic.

The texture on the chess piece is just a 3D texture. I put the marble texture on the chess piece and changed the marble colors and style to make it how I wanted. I really liked the way the chess piece looks, I think it looks realistic.

This is the rendered view of the chess piece with a spotlight. I really like the way this looks and I am happy with it.












This is another rendered view of the chess piece with ambient light on it. 

Simple Animation

For this week, we were told to animate something simple. I decided to animate my mug model that I made before. I changed the mug to something more realistic, which I think helped the animation a bit. It was a very simple animation, just showing the mug lift and tip over to show something pouring out. I was trying to figure out how to show water or something pour out and I looked at some tutorials but it wouldn't work for me. Anyway, I am happy with what I have because it shows what I set out to do.

Here is a screenshot of the mug in air, which is in the middle of the animation.

Lowman rig animation

For this week we were assigned a lowman rig animation, which I found to be fun. I decided to make my figure turn his head and motion to someone next to him as well as move his leg. I animated his head first, which was relatively easy. The hardest and most complex part of animating the lowman rig was definitely animating the leg. I also enjoyed animating the arm, that was a lot of fun because it was fun to play with what the hand can actually do. I asked one of my friends to also act out what I wanted my lowman to do before I animated him, which helped a lot.

This is a screenshot of the middle of the scene with the lowman. This shows you the movement of the arm, leg and head.