A Little Pre-Term Planning…

Can you tell what it is yet?.. only half rigged but nearly there…

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Horned bear Construction Drawing…

I maybe crazy… but it might just work…

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Cat Father With Tea

Animation/Look/Render/Rig test… and what did I find? Either his hands are too big or the mug is too small and maybe the fluid simulation container should Dynamically resize… or just be bigger?

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Steam in the scene…

Steam by fluid simulation in the scene…

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Second attempt at steam…

Still a bit jittery at the bottom but a nice lazy curly going up… nearly there… this is fluid dynamics in Maya

 

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Flame for Steam…

First stage of making steam in Maya…

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Characters with horns…

Planning meeting drawings… always a productive time for me…

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Cat Dog Tea Coffee…

Looking at the Cat and Dog Tea/Coffee animation that I started a while back and wondering about a character re-design… How about

 

 

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Human IK test…

Not bad for an afternoons play, a figure [basic I know] modelled in Maya [I think its the first time I have stuck just to Maya for the modelling after 12 years with 3ds Max] also my first play with the human IK rig and my first play with Maya’s interactive skin binding, I’m all in all a little more informed than I was at lunch time:)

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The Navigation Room

This is the sixth and final part of a sequence of 6 videos each approximately one minute in length created for the Curiosity Zone at Life Science Centre Newcastle. Each piece is cyclic in nature allowing the viewer to spend as long or as little time as they want viewing them. The disparate pieces are narratively related but also stand alone as individual views into an Ark of Curiosities.

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