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This walk cycle helped me a lot with my animation because I never knew how to do a walk cycle. I spent a lot of time and this made me better.

This is the image that I have used for my reference to help me to make my character jump. This image helped me a lot because without this image I wouldn't get the timing right or the positions.

1) This is my first plan for obstacle course.

2) This is my second plan for obstacle course. I think this plan is much better because it looks interesting and also it has more details.

I have modelled my obstacle course in Maya. So far it looks really simple i will have to make this more interesting and long.

For this obstacle course I have used a ball instead of character because I’m just planning how my animation will look like. Now will start to add more obstacles and character.

I have added more obstacles because I want to make it more interesting and long.

Using this character is very easy once you get used to it. I'm using this character for my animation because the height is perfect. I never animated any characters in my life this is the first time I will be animating and it will be challenging.

     

When I made the character jump I was using right view but I made a massive mistake by going to perspective view and moving the character to the right so the character can hold on to the pole. Then when I play it it's like his on the air and suddenly gets power from nowhere.

This is where I struggled so much I didn't know how to rotate this character. I never struggled that much in my life in Maya because I couldn't make that character face the other way. Then somehow I managed to do it.

I think I done very good animating the back flip because the timing is good. It took me time to animate the back flip but it looks realistic.  

Overall, my final animation is okay it's not bad or good. At first the character starts too slow then at the end it's too fast. To make this better I will have to spend more times and get more reference. I need to animate more and more to get better at this because the more you animate the more you learn and better you will get. Next time I will have to start the project well before not leave it at the last minute. My animation is too short it’s not long enough and it's not great.Next time i will have to read the brief at least 4 times because i don't understand most of the things are written in the brief. My next 3D animation will be much better because now I have an idea how to animate and I have learnt to spend more time animating. By doing this unit I have learnt so much things that I could learn in many years for example animating at home, Read the brief, spend more time on Maya, look at animations, watch cartoons, make every second useful not useless, while animating don't get distracted, no Facebook or YouTube. My next animation will be much better and interesting

3d

 29/1/15
Animate bouncing ball


This is the bouncing ball that I am animating. It was hard at first then when i understood what to do I was fine.When the first time i did bouncing ball with my teacher I found it really hard to animate and also to understand. After that i tried to do it by myself so this will give me a chance to learn by myself. 

I have created Motion Trail by going to 'Animate' then 'Create Editable Motion Trail'.
This helped me to make my animation smooth and fix the problems there are. The difficult part was to use the Motion Trail because I didn't know how much i should move the Motion Trail.


































To make this animation better i will have to spend more time and also focus.I need to make it interesting and also long. It will look better if i make the ball to touch any objects. From this i have fully learnt how to animate bouncing ball.

To make this animation better i will have to spend more time and also focus.I need to make it interesting and also long.

Bowling ball 

This bowling ball drops and rolls slowly.It was easy to animate this because i knew what i had to do.
























Ultimate Pendul
I created the by going to 'Polygons' then i used 'Polygon Sphere'












Here I have created a ball.The pendul goes right and the ball falls on the ground.The movement of the ball is good but not the Pendul.To make this better I need to use reference.This animated pendul doesn't look good because I don't know how the movements of the pendul works.























When the pendul comes back it hits the purple ball.The way Pendul is animated it doesn't look real or good because there is not enough movement. It was very difficult to animate the parts of the Pendul because I didn't key frame. I really struggle and get confused about key framing because the problem is i don't know when to key frame. I get confuse because do i key frame it first then move the object? or move the object then key frame?

After Few days I have learnt that I should key frame before and after i move the object.

I have created a bowling ball.The bowling ball is blue it lands from the top very fast.



















I found it hard to animate The Ultimate Pendul because i'm not good at animating. I made the pendul to touch the balls. More i was animating more i was learning. I can make this better by spending more times.The animation is not great but i tried to make it better after.The big problem of this animation is that the top part of the pendul doesn't move it stays the same that's the reason it doesn't look realistic.

After few days i have learnt how to animate the Pendul better because i saw other peoples animation and also i saw videos on youtube to support me.

Ultimate Walker

I have mostly used 'Foot Roll' 'Foot Break' and 'Toe Roll'.Using theses tools were very challenging and difficult because I have to move each tool at the same time. Sometime when i move the numbers up or down the character stays the same nothing moves.

When the character is walking one foot should be on the ground. I was confused how to make one foot lock on the ground. Then i kept only one leg lock on the ground and then it started to look good.I have used reference to help me to do this animation.

Animating this was very hard because i had no idea what i was doing.When the first time i animated the walk cycle it was animated really good but the problem was it was walking in the same place.Then i tried to make it walk from one side to the other but i found it very hard.Then i spent more time animating and this helped me to improve the mistakes i made.

Grass

Here i'm just learning more things about Maya.I have decided to make grass.I went to 'PaintEffects' then went to 'Get Brush'

This is very simple but i think it will help me in my 3d topic.

Stone Storage level 4-5

Here I have made the stones. Making the stones were very easy because i've just used polygon cubes then i used Vertex to make it look like stones.From this i've learnt to work on my own and model things without help. I only made one fence then i duplicated them by pressing 'cmd' 'D'

I went to 'Mesh' then 'Smooth'.This is how it looks after i smooth the storage.


Fighter Jet 
This is the fighter jet that i made. I mostly used the Extrude tool to make this Jet.The jet doesn't look realistic because i never used any reference or didn't look at any jet to find out how they look like.I made this jet by creating a Polygon then I just selected faces and used Extrude to make it look like a Jet.

This animation is not good because the movement of the jet is not right and it looks wrong when it turns. Next time i will have to make this longer and interesting and i need to fix the movements and also the turnings

This is the 2nd animation that i made.This one is way better and it almost looks realistic because i spent more time than the first one. From this i have learnt how the movements of the jet works and how to make an interesting view.To make this animation better i can make the jet to crush something.