Major Project: Scene 7 shot 3 Playblast

Major Project: Scene 6 Renders

Major Project: Scene 1 Shot 1 - Set complete

This is the set for the first animated shot in the film, in which the camera scrolls through a regular forest to find the small village.

Major Project: Scene 2 Renders

This is a short scene in which the ugly munchkin is first introduced.

Major Project: Scene 6 Shot 3 Render

I haven't posted in a while as I have been getting stuck in with animation, and as I haven't been animating chronologically I didn't think it was worth posting mismatched scenes, but hope to post a large chunk of animation by the end of the week. For now I've set out some renders from some of the animated shots.

Major Project: Scene 4 Renders

In the breaks I take from animating I've been leaving maya to render stills from scene 4, although I had rendered stills from this scene before, the settings weren't consistent for lighting and textures throughout the stills so I decided to correct it. I'm still a bit unsure about the specular for the characters and if they look too shiny or not.

Major Project: DJ Character

 

 

Major Project: Completed Sets

All of the 5 main sets are now fully complete, the only changes to be made are that floor details may change depending on the shot as I don't want to have a ridiculous amount of objects in my scene.

Major Project: Scene 4 Renders

I've now corrected all the textures and got the area lights set how I want them to be. Apart from polishing up the animation this scene is now complete.

Major Project: Scene 4 Playblast

There are still some changes that I'd like to make but the main chunk of animation is complete for this scene.

Major Project: Scene 4 Shot 4

 

Major Project: Character Interface

I decided to make a quick interface for selecting controls as I thought it would save time in the long run with the animation process.

Major Project: Scene 4 shot 1 Playblast

Major Project: Scene 4 Shot 1 Renders

With the addition of area lights renders are taking roughly 7 minutes. I think I prefer the first one. Changes are still being made to this character texture.

Major Project: Scene Render

I've managed to fix my issues with area lights and cornea textures. the only change that may happen now is to the floor texture as I want to increase the resolution.

Major Project: Scene Renders

Having a few issues with having lights linked to only the character, again not sure if this is an issue with my version of maya as there are other issues with rendering that don't seem to make sense.

Major Project: Scene Renders

I tried rendering out a frame from one of the scenes so I could see how it would look with a basic matte background. I've been having trouble coming up with good backgrounds so this was experimental and not finalised.

 

 

Major Project: Character Renders

I've made some changes to the textures as suggested by Phil, the eyes aren't properly set up currently as I'm having issues with the transmission setting on the textures, where it just comes up black instead of clear in the renderview. I think this may be an issue with my copy of Maya.