Mailin Berg UCA Rochester BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts: tutorial

Showing posts with label tutorial. Show all posts

Tuesday, 27 September 2016

Minor Project update

After my tutorial with Phil yesterday, we decided that my minor project will be presented in a knitted style, as an animation with a relatable, personal story with the basis of the whole world being 'knitting', or 'knit together'.

The story will be personal, likely about memory loss, amnesia, knitting memories back together, or maybe loss of a family heirloom with a rich history.

I will try and talk to someone who has suffered some sort of memory loss or someone who is close to them is suffering this fate.

I want to create an animation where the viewer can feel the loss as the story unravels, and I have looked into personal blogs that have memory loss stories, most seem very interesting and contain material that I could easily use for this project, but I want to have a voice over of a person speaking freely rather than someone reading someone else's writing (which can be nice too, but maybe not for this project).

So far I have learned a bunch about coping techniques (that might or might not work, mostly not in older people), that in most cases family and friends of the affected person are most disgusted by a person's loss of morals, and that real cases of amnesia are very rare and severely romanticized in films.

If possible, I want to find a story of a person who has slowly regained their memory as I would love to go for the "knitting the world back together" theme, but that is probably just as hopelessly romantic as the films, so ideally something I should stay away from. I will have to think about this.

Sunday, 3 May 2015

Artists Toolkit: Maya Tutorials

Some Images of tutorials:

Monday, 13 April 2015

Maya Tutorial Rigging Techniques 4: Tail

Monday, 23 March 2015

Maya Tutorial Fur Presets

Maya Tutorial Texturing --> Networks - X-Ray Shader

In this tutorial I've learnt how to give a lambert texture a glow effect so it looks like it's x-rayed when rendered.

Maya Tutorial Texturing --> Networks - Double Sided Shader

In this tutorial we learnt how to put a different image on each side of the page which creates a believable page turning animation.

Friday, 20 March 2015

Maya Tutorial: Character Textures

Monday, 9 March 2015

Maya Tutorial Non Linear Deformers

They are all pretty cool and will hopefully help me shape my hookworm and environment when I'm ready to animate!

Maya Tutorial Can Exchange

Robots exchange can!

Friday, 6 March 2015

Maya Tutorial Secondary Action & Overlap: Hanging Chain

In this tutorial I have animated a chain to swing realistically looking with secondary action and overlap.

Thursday, 26 February 2015

Maya Tutorial Old Alley UV Layout and Texturing Preparation

As I have too much time on my hands tonight I have finally finished my Old Alley UV Layout and Texturing Preparation Tutorial!

Maya Tutorial Can Snatch

Monday, 23 February 2015

Maya Tutorial Walking Cycles - Mechanics

Walking cycle on infinity with little robot legs, I find he looks quite upbeat and happy! Something went wrong with the legs after I changed him from walking backwards to forwards and I can't find out what it is, but now he's at least walking properly!

Monday, 9 February 2015

Maya Bouncing Ball, Rotating, Pendulum, Toadstool Tutorials

Tuesday, 27 January 2015

Maya Tutorial Camera Shake

The camera shake will be very useful in future to make scenes believable.

Monday, 26 January 2015

Maya Tutorial Contra Zoom

This tutorial shows a quick trick to let the audience believe that the corridor moves, not the camera.

Maya Tutorial Camera Coverage

In this video, we have manipulated two cameras (with three others already being in place) and put a little sequence together in Premier Pro.

Monday, 19 January 2015

Maya Tutorial: Custom Camera Rig

In this tutorial, we have added all the attributes we need to make full use of the camera and have connected them with the thirds which we have created in Photoshop.

Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Maya Tutorials Distance Shot

Unfortunately I don't have After Effects at home so I'm uploading three videos instead of one! This tutorial was very helpful with explaining why this shot is being done at the specific distance and what exactly it's focusing on which will help later on with trying to convey mood, importance of certain actions etc.

Monday, 12 January 2015

Maya Tutorial Crane Shot

Following the crane shot tutorial, I have learnt how to adjust a crane camera properly to allow for a nice shot that has a drastic change in height and captures the mood of the scene.