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.
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.
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.
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.
