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W9/W11 - Model and Rig

Model is basically complete and ready for its rig!

I have also been testing different textures and looks, as well as practicing with the skeleton and auto rig features of Maya. Perhaps time wise I will need to auto rig for a quadruped and then edit the skeleton and rig through that as time is becoming short. Even if I run out of time to animate it, I will have the rig done on time.

Mostly all technical jargon from there. I continue to reference my different articles and videos on quadruped rigs, though I wish there was more information on Kung Fu Panda character rigs as thus far they seem like very well made and efficient Quad/Bi pedal rigs that I would love to learn more about.

Note: Week 10 lost to March Break

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W8 - Switching it up! (Quadruped rigging)

I have remade my plan and the timeline of work to now be focusing of a modelled, rigged, and animated quadruped. We have only ever modelled and rigged bipedal characters, and have done only one beginner walk cycle (which I was not very proud of). I think it would be extremely beneficial to apply myself to this so I can show off better technical rigging, and have a quadrupedal model that I can animate and use however I wish. This will be based on a bi pedal model I have thus far. It is a eastern style dragon and I have a current model as a bipedal character, which will not work for a short film I am working on, nor to practice quadrupedal rigging. Thus I shall re model it to better rig it. Current bipedal character:

And the new concept model sheet:

I also have a rough rigging planned on top of this to demonstrate how I will begin the skeleton. I am referencing works such as Kung Fu Panda for rigging and animating, as their characters such as Tigress and Viper have very unique rigging techniques. I also will reference Disney's Mulan for the dragon character Mushu's animated actions and movements, as I find it difficult to find life references of dragons. The following are some very interesting articles on different such rigging techniques.

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.474.9719&rep=rep1&type=pdf

http://gsanitech.blogspot.com/2011/05/animation-talk-with-kung-fu-panda.html

https://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2011/Volume-34-Issue-5-May-2011-/Kicking-Back.aspx I plan to reference these and other such animations and rigs for building this dragon. I also wish to have it colored and textured so it may be a truly successful and useful character.

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W5/6 - Practice

I have hit a lot of walls in my progress. I have watched through tutorials for after effects but unfortunately I have come to the conclusion that after effects feels more 2D then 3D. A lot of the tutorials required videos finished that the effects were added on top of. I was going about solving this by potentially rendering things in Blender first; but I have no knowledge of the software and would have to restart the learning from scratch, which is costing time I do not have. I have added a bit more to the rough scene. I have smoothed it out, added more stone details, and combined certain elements to make the mesh easier to manipulate. Unfortunately I hit a few different technical issues, but after trouble shooting and checking with classmates I found there was simply some settings hidden that really messed the mesh when moving it around. An updated shot is as follows:

I have been debating changing up my topic and will see about discussing it in the upcoming check in.

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W4 - Roughed out

Things still seem very confusing with classes being interrupted and schedule/due date changes, but this week I managed to get a rough out for the scene and a final concept art.

The concept art turned out very nice. Simple yet with good opportunities to really display what I am trying to with the particles and water and light. I also played with color palettes and this is definitely my favorite one.

I found the rough scene quite fun to work on actually, much easier then going straight into a high res build. I also found a bit of difficulty as my program seems to crash when I extrude to much, but I navigated it by using the insert edge loop tool more after extruding a section to about the right spot. I am still tweaking, and I may want to do a few more things, but I find it is looking really good and the next steps is adding things like the grass and then the water.

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W3 - Research

This week has been packed with assignments and due dates changing rapidly, thus I have not met my goals for this week. I found a few more tutorials and references, the best of which I will link below; but other then that the work balance has been very off and I hope things work out better next week.

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W1 - Research on Programs/Resources

First update on my study into animating particles/different element physics associated with them. Todays update is based on research done on what programs are available for this type of work and deciding which I will focusing on to use going forward.

For animation and modeling itself I will be using Autodesk Maya for a bulk of the work. I have been using it for two years now and feel I can be quicker and more accurate using this software. Some examples of past model work is below, as well as a hand made rig.

Through my schooling I have access to adobe features, and in my research I have found that Adobe After Effects and Blender both have many tutorials available online, and a lot of reference material on how to use it. Where other programs such as Houdini cost a small fortune and many others require buy ins of some sort to actually save any of your work, I believe these are the programs I will be using to practice and render my final work.

I have also found a small program that does not have much info on it but seems promising, called Boris FX, for particle illusions. I have yet to really try it out but I am hoping to see how it really works since the basic access is free. Though plugins once again must be bought and I believe I will once again go back to Adobe After Effects.

Now my next steps is getting to know these programs and nailing down what I really want that final image/looping animation to be.

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