3D Design and Animation
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The Timepiece - May 2008
The Timepiece is the final piece of coursework for my 3D Animation module. Unfortunately I didn't have enough time to produce a soundtrack to accompany the movie.
This is my first short animation and is based on an inventor who creates a watch that can control time. After winding the clock round he travels forward to the future, however evil forces seek the watch.
The modelling and animation was done in Maya and after being rendered out (which took forever) was edited in Final Cut Pro.
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Moon Lit House - April 2008
This animation is for a forthcoming animation currently in production as part of my 3D Design project at University.
My story is based around a mad professor that manages to produce a pocket watch that can be used to control time.
Unfortunately YouTube compression makes this movie look really dark, however once the animation is complete I'll upload an original copy here, for all to see.
This ten seconds of footage took about 5 - 6 hours to render due to some paint effects I used like grass and vines. I also made my own textures for the house.
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Sunset - April 2008
Up until this point I had never managed to correctly make an environmental sky with sun clouds, mist, fog etc.
This short clip shows a nice sunset.
In this session I also learnt how to make trees from scratch by using tubes. I found it was quite cool and liked the way that Maya has its on breakdown of tubes in the Attribute Editor. The breakdowns were adequately named branches, twigs, leaves, flowers, buds which made it simple to understand and control various different option.
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Potassium Element - December 2007
This animation is based on the atomic structure of the element Potassium (K) and forms the third part of my 3D Design Portfolio.
The nucles contains 39 spheres in total. 19 Protons (red) and 20 Neutrons (blue). The nucleus is then orbitted by 19 electrons on their respective shells.
Using the graph editor within Maya I set the electrons to orbit the nucleus infinately at different rates. The inner orbit being the fastest, and outer orbit being the slowest.
The movie was then rendered out using mental ray and compiled in video editing software as a QuickTime Movie. -
Cheese Henge - November 2007
This animation features a model of stone henge made from swish cheese. The animation forms the second part of my 3D Design portfolio.
The pieces of swiss cheese are modelled using polygons. The holes were made by overlapping the polygon cubes with spheres and then using the Booleans > Difference function. This left the indentation which appears like an air bubble.
I decided to place cheese henge on a kitchen table, and add a green table clothe to make the cheese stand out. The knife was based on one from my kitchen and modelled using Sub-Ds.
A three point lighting system was then set up to create some nice shadow effects. Then finally I animated the view camera before rendering out the movie using mental ray. -
Telephone Model - October 2007
This model was made to form part of my portfolio for a 3D Design lecture at university. The criteria for the model was to produce a three second animation of a household object in which the camera circles around.
The model is constructed from Nurbs, Polygons and Sub-Ds. A camera then circles the object on a motion path.
The animation was rendered using Maya Software on production quality and exported as a QuickTime Movie.