another maya fail

So today after sorting my moom out with matt so the dress sticks to the shoulders and finding out that you animate without the ndynamics on....i animated it and did a playblast with the dress and hair back on....it erm...exploded a bit! need to try and figure out whats going on.

Turns out i had loads of jiggles on the hair so we just decided to scrap that and try do something with it at the end.

Hair design

Here is some designs for the hair. I have to decided to go for one that looks like barbie but won't be too hard to manage.

Now i just have to figure out how to make it....

Mooms dress

Here is my mood board for the dress design for my animation, looking at different styles of dress that might work, the pros and cons, and the colour.

The loose dresses look cute but I thought it might be hard but Mat just showed me that  it would actually be quite easy. Another option would be to make the tshirt part of the dress really close to the body so it can move with it but then have the skirt part flawy so it can move on it's own. 
I need to make collision objects so the dress interacts with is and stops against it. Mat used silk as the material and it looks really nice and loose.
I think I am going for a pink dress because it looks stereotypically girly and anything that can make moon look girlier is good!

Maya

So the reason I couldn't do the image on the plane for reference when I was at home is because i needed to press 6. Apparently that shows up the textures like 7 shows up the lighting you have set up. So simple! 

Interim crit

I was quite nervous about doing my interim crit mainly because of the animatic with my voice in it, I am hoping to change it a bit so its not as cringe worthy!

The feedback I got from the crit  was:
Background ideas- dolls house, pretty wallpaper in a room, giant toys, weird line things (david needs to show me what he means)
The hair and dress could be quite difficult but once I understand it, it should be okay. The dress if it was triangle shape wouldn't move with the moom body so I will have to think about the design of this because the triangle looks good for the character but if its not going to move with the character then maybe I should design it differently.
Try and over exaggerate mooms poses almost to breaking point.
Watch girly chick flicks to see how girls are exaggerated in movies. 

Animatic

So I just created my animatic. In doing so I realised I needed an extra frame in my storyboard just before she realises her clothes are missing. So here that part of the storyboard again.

Now here is my animatic with my not final vocals.

I think I want to make the pitch higher on the vocals so its a bit squeaky. I also noticed in doing this that I have no background but I can't think what to do or even if there needs to be one so I think that could be a question to ask in the crit.

Storyboards

We recorded ourselves acting out the performance we want moom to do as a reference. These are my story boards that I got from the recording. I think it will work quite nicely.

I'm hoping for it to be funny! so good comedic timing would help which I think I can do. I think it does look comical with the dress and hair on moom too. I just have to figure out how to make them on maya which will be the difficult bit...

Study task 3

For study task 3 we had to choose a list of 5 words, act them out, catch them on camera and make moom do the same thing. This is really helpful for getting used to the character rig and also learning how to make him more life like with emotions and using his whole body like we do. 

The first word I chose was 'fear'. I finally learnt how to make the fingers and feet move because of this so I would say it was useful!
I think the body could have been moved a bit further down though so the knees bent a bit more.





Then I did surprise which actually isn't all that much different to fear you could probably mistake it but that is down to my acting. There really wasn't that much to do on this one.





Then I did sadness. I found it difficult to get the body in the right position i think mainly because things are out of proportion like moom has a massive head and little arms and legs so it doesn't look exactly right.

Then I did tiredness/exhaustion I'm not sure which. But it kinda just looks like moom is dead...I am proud of myself that I made moom lie down though that was quite difficult.

Happiness! this one was quite fun because moom just looks so happy! which was the aim so thats good! I figured out some little arrows that control his knees on this one that were very useful! 

Character narrative

My plan

I have decided on my song. I have decided to do 'Barbie girl' by Aqua. 

'im a barbie girl in a barbie world,

life in plastic, its fantastic,

you can brush my hair, undress me everywhere

imagination life is your creation'

I think this could be really fun and I could maybe do a girl squeaky voice and it will look funny because Moom isn't exactly very girly but I could make it act girly. I am going to but hair and a dress on it and on the line 'undress me everywhere' the dress will just vanish as the same point moom covers itself up with hands and has a shocked expression and starts slowly side stepping off stage. 

Maya

Study task 2
For study task 2 we had to make some objects move 
1)Turntable
this one we had to make the camera spin around the object. 
To do this you open your scene, go to animate, turntable. Make sure you have your object selected or it won't work (i made that mistake) Then scrub your timeline and it will show you your turntable. 
















2) Pendulum
To do this i just set the rotate each side.

3) Bouncy Ball
In this there were 2 balls to make bounce. I made the green was a bit squishy like a rubber ball and the red one really hard like a metal ball bouncing on a hard surface but its quite light so it bounces back a bit. 
I used the graph editor to edit the bounce, when it comes off the floor I made the line linear so it bounces fast with no ease. 

4) Anticipation
In this i decided to use the bouncy balls again. I just used one and I made it lift, then compress, then bounce. I think it looks okay.

5) Overlapping
I actually found this one quite difficult and I'm pretty sure I haven't done it properly. I couldn't find how to make it do pre and post infinity. Also Im not sure the overlapping is quite right. It started off looking really strange but I started over and it went a little bit better. 

Maya

Here is my lovely model of my truck

Our second thing we had to animate was something of or own choosing. I chose to make a cup. I started off with a sphere and i caved it in on itself, then I made a cylinder and used the bend deformer to make a handle. I added a spotlight and another light around the size so it wasn't too harsh. I made the cup blue and shiny. 

Then I rendered it and this is how it turned out! I am really pleased with it! It's a very simple object but I guess I had to start somewhere! 

Maya

In maya today we made a truck! We had to model it by looking at a wooden truck and following some instructions. It actually went pretty well! it took quite a bit of getting used to to figure out all the modelling tools but I did it!
NOTES:
W=move   E=rotate   R=scale
to make a shape go to create on the top menu bar, then polygon primitives and choose your shape. then you can edit it. You can make shapes bend and twist and squash etc by going to create deformers-non liner- bend,squash etc. then on the right click channels-input-bend-clickon the word-use the middle mouse button to slide left and right to increase and decrease the value. 

We learnt to add colour by going to window, rendering editor, hypershade. where you will find lots of different textures to edit.
We also learned about lighting. you can go to create, light, and choose which type you want. you can edit this in the channels panel. click 7 to show what your lighting is doing and T to aim the light. Cone angle is the size of the light, permumeralangle will soften the edges, decay rate is the brightness. 

Then the next lesson I tried to make my truck move and I thought it went okay until we learnt about graph editors that can edit the motion and when I clicked on it, it looked completely different to what Mat had shown us. I asked him why and it turns out I missed a step. I was key framing each individual part of the truck.
I needed to do this bit where I group the parts of the truck then add a NURB circle and put it around my truck, and parent the NURB to my truck so that when I move the circle the who thing moves and I can make the truck uneditable. This means I will have one line on my graph.

song choice

I am finding this really difficult here is some ideas of mine

Blood brother- kids game

"don't you know that if you cross your fingers

and if you count from 1-10

you can get up off the ground again

it doesn't matter the whole things just a game

the whole things just a game"

I could make it fun and childlike and do a liverpool accents


wicked- popular


" Whenever I see someone

Less fortunate than I

(And let's face it - who isn't

Less fortunate than I?)

My tender heart

Tends to start to bleed

And when someone needs a makeover

I simply have to take over

I know, I know exactly what they need

And even in your case

Though it's the toughest case I've yet to face

Don't worry - I'm determined to succeed

Follow my lead

And yes, indeed

You will BE


Popular


You're gonna be popular!

I'll teach you the proper poise when you talk to boys

Little ways to flirt and flounce ooh

I'll show you what shoes to wear

How to fix your hair

Everything that really counts


To be popular

I'll help you be popular!

You'll hang with the right cohorts

You'll be good at sports

Know the slang you've got to know

So let's start

'Cause you've got an awfully long way to go:"


She could have lots of fun over exaggerated gestures.


That might be a bit too long though.




wicked - the wizard and i

"When I meet the Wizard

Once I prove my worth

And then I meet the Wizard

What I've waited for since: since birth!

And with all his Wizard wisdom

By my looks, he won't be blinded

Do you think the Wizard is dumb?

Or, like Munchkins, so small-minded?

No! He'll say to me,

"I see who you truly are -

A girl on whom I can rely!"

And that's how we'll begin

The Wizard and I:"



lets go fly a kite- mary poppins


"Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height!
Let's go fly a kite and send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let's go fly a kite!"
I could make him have a kite and it could pull him up off the ground. and make it funny.



fast food song-fast food rockers

'A pizza hut, a pizza hut,

kentucky fried chicken and a pizza hut,'

I could just make him do that dance.



another one i could do the dance to is

agadoo-black lace

'agado do do push pineapple shake the tree

aga do do do push pineapple grind coffee.

to the left to the right jump up and down and to the knees,

come and dance every night sing with a hoola melody.'


Barbie girl-aqua

'im a barbie girl in a barbie world,

life in plastic, its fantastic,

you can brush my hair, undress me everywhere

imagination life is your creation'

i could make a dress to put on my character and it could act all girly and when its says undress me everywhere the dress could just disappear so it has to cover its body with hands and has a shocked face. maybe could sneak off to the side as the last line finishes.