Jessica Blom Interview

I interviewed Jessica Blom about how she plays the flute in ONW band.

Maya Tools

Hammer: When making the hammer I used the Cut Face tool where I cut the back face of the hammer to make the back prongs. Extrude to pull out the prongs and pull out the hammer head.

Ice Cream: When making the Ice cream and Cone I used Bump map tool to make the indents of the waffle cone. I also made it into a looping movie by turning the ice cream a few degrees then added a keyframe to the last keyframe. This made it spin in an endless loop. 

Cup: When making the Cup I used NURBS. I used the curve tool to cut out the cup into the shape of The Holy Grail. Then I used the revolve tool to take my cut of the cup and then expanded it in a 360 degree to make the full cup. Then I found a Holy Grail type of texture and added it to my cup.

Salt Shaker: When making my Salt and Pepper Shakers I used the Curve and Lofting along with the Extrude when making the cap.

Bouncing Spheres: When making the Tennis, Golf, and Bowling balls drop tests I used Keyframes, Graph Editor, and Squash and Stretch.

Chris Hwang Interview

I Interviewed Chris Hwang about what he got for christmas that he hasn't had in a long while. He was very excited about it.

Character Animation

Here is my Character Animation form Animation class. I had to make up a story and characters and the plot and everything else. It's about a car who is a great need of gas but just can't find it. He sadly can't get the gas station in time and runs out.

I made the character and the background in Photoshop and animated it all in After Effects. I made about nine different short animation of each scene then had to add them all together then rendered it all. 

Here is my animation.

Lego Blood Drive

Here I have two videos that are a little differnet then before. There are Informal Interviews. Before I made fun stories and now I'm making news packages. The first video I interviewed my friend Carter about him building legos and other things.

I got all six shots in and asked all the right questions. With the informal interview I asked Carter what he was doing, Why he was doing it, and other more personal questions. All this was done while Carter built his lego set. The project was fun and pretty easy but some things could have been improved like not such shaky camera shots meaning needed to keep stable when filming and interviewing Carter. some of my shots were very quite.

Blood Drive:

 


Lego Day:

Break Free Music Video

This Project was to make a music video with a group of four people. My group did Break Free by Ariana Grande. We spent three-four days on planning out the video and getting all the other important  finished like what the costumes were needed. Our plan was to have two differnet worlds so each of us needed two costumes. 
We hand some problems with time management when shooting the video because we would shoot a shot and then break out laughing after it. When editing the video we had planned on having the shots go to the lyrics but in the end we had to go the the beat. A lot of our shots were longer then the beat sometimes.
I would have shot the video in different locations instead of one hallway. We could have many different ideas for shots if we had been in different locations. 

Character Walk Cycle

My Character is Robot in a business suit who likes to walk in black background. His design is loosely based on the evil robot from the movie Robots. i wanted to make a robot but he needed to be wearing something and something was a business suit.

With making this robot i had to make him walk as well. I first moved the picture form Photoshop to After Effects and then made the legs into their own animation where they would go into a walking animation using keyframes in After Effects. Using keyframes wasn't to difficult to do but the hardest part of keyframes is that i had to line them up so the legs would walk at different times. 

A few issues i ran into was trying to get the legs to move at the right time so one leg was on the ground while the other was in air. Another issue I ran into was keeping the legs in between the Robots Torso. If I could change any with my project is to draw the Robot better. Meaning to draw him with more detail.