Final animation

Final animation

Target dummy

Incase the video doesn't work or look good on blogger here is the link to it uploaded on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQU1_9-2-UI&feature=youtu.be

Music:
http://www.freesound.org/people/alienistcog/sounds/126661/

Poster

Poster

 

Music

Music

 I found music to be really hard to find for my character story as nearly everything i clicked on didn't sound right in any way. 

I eneded up thinking that this song would work really well untill playing it with the scene running and it did not fit at all. specially with the gun shot sound effects that i had placed in it.

8tracks.com/lukeimpressed/a-carnival-during-winter

After searching through a great deal of music tracks i found that this recording from a fair would best suit my scene and having the gun shots and reloading in it.

http://www.freesound.org/people/alienistcog/sounds/126661/

After effects

After effects

 In after effects i created the bullet effect with using a image key framing the mask on it and the position that it came in and faded out of the scene. This is the optical flare that was used and i had just changed the colour in photoshop to yellow before importing into after effects.

Texturing

Texturing

Nearly all the textures that i ended up using in maya.

a lot of them i made myself with combining a mixture of textures and making them seamless.

The gun texture and model was found on Creativecrash website under free models for guns.

Playblast

Playblast

Created broken dummy for scene

Created broken dummy for scene

Having too many normal dummies in the scene wouldn't make it look right so i made a broken one that also would be the one to be shot breaking off at the pole.

 

Phyical sun sky

Physical sun sky

Physical sun sky is the best option for my scene but possibly even adding a few lights. Some tutorials that i found handy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgVLvTBZP88

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds5n0ZdtAy8

Animating jump

Animating jump

I want my character to be unique with its hops not making them all the same. He will end up crouching down longer or shorter depending on how high or far he jumps.

1. into a crouch

2. hold the crouch

3. popping most of the way back to standing position

4. translated in the air rotated and more standing up

5. rotated back to 90 translated back onto the ground

6. crouching back down 

7. expanding back up to upright position.

repeat but also can skip the 7th skip.

Modeling scene

Modeling scene

Created a spinning ride for more depth into the scene. With some help from a class mate Julio he showed me how to make it continuously rotate at the same speed without key framing. Also made a circus tent with ropes coming down  that was duplicated from the barriers and stretched out.

Modeling scene

Modeling scene

 Started to go into some details with modeling making barriers with creating rope even. Made a path then had a flat circle that duplicated into four circles in a square shape then extruded them along the path twisting them. 

Modeling scene

Modeling scene

Modelling more of the scene adding a ferris wheel for in the background scene shot. The size that i have ended up modeling as seems to be about right with how big the stall that has been modeled by me. 

Driven keys

Driven keys

Broke down the key steps of hoping and how the body moves and looks before making the blendshape of my character and driven keys. found out some problems with using driven keys with blend shapes as when more then one is used the mesh or character gets warped. 

Driven keys

Driven keys

Have started out pumping out lots of driven keys for different things of my character.

Torso bending forwards at the abbs and bending backwards. bending to the sides with the stand.

Driven keys

Driven keys

 A video that David linked me that helped me to understand driven keys a little bit more as they are confusing and very complex when not familiar and new to using them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF2CWD63AUQ&list=PL4iguFH3yB6VDgtkT861X7VS_gBh6UARV&index=15

Driven keys

Driven keys

Have been told about using driven keys by Julio and started to look at the best ways that i can go about using them. Found out that using soft selection and changing how high or low the selection is the best way to select what i want then change the pivot point for rotation, translation, or scaling. 

Curtains

More curtains

Wanted to try out using Ncloth with the curtain but not too sure if it will make my scene too laggy.

The look of it came out really nice. Ended up using the silk preset making it look very realistic.

I  made a curtain hook to make sure that it would stay more in one spot then going everywhere.

Curtain

Curtains

I really want to have curtains in the scene as i have had the idea of the opening scene with the curtains opening revealing the dummies. I have been watching a few tutorials that helped me to make an effective looking curtain. 

Here are two of the videos that i found really helpful for creating a curtain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6S_5Cta6Uc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubZP7rOU6T4

the curtain that i have created...

Scene

Scene

I am still not sure on what i can do about rigging/ skin weighting my character as it becomes so messed up so meanwhile i have started to model my scene making some progress with that.

I looked through google images browsing and what different stalls at carnivals look like and the colours ect.

 Started model of carnival tent. wooden shelves, front wooden bench, outside will be red and white stripes.

UV texturing

UV texturing

Started to look into UV texturing and how i can apply it to my model to get a better looking and more realistic dummy. Just two of the tutorials that i watched that i thought was handy on completing what i wanted. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EQmS9eouCY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYgQt0N9-gc

Attempted to look at UV my model but it is to high in polys and even when split down the middle to unfold it the shape is hard to distinguish.