Personal Work - Head Sketches

A couple of pages out of my sktechbook from today, whilst listening to Bobby Chiu.

Personal Work - More Sketches

Personal Work - Recent Sketches

Just some recent sketches I've been doing, looking at designing a character over the holidays and taking it into maya to model, rig, texture, etc. Just so I feel a bit more prepared for the next year and to learn some new things, 

Fantastic Voyage - Submission Disc Artwork

CGAA Yr1: Maya Tutorial Submission 2014/2015

Intro To Autodesk Maya

1. Modelling

2. Character Modelling

3. Common Shaders

4. UV Maps

5. Character Part 2 - Texturing

6. Lights & Shadows

7. Character Part 3 - Lighting & Rendering

8. Animation Part 1 - Using Rigs

9. Animation Part 2 - Using Motion Paths

10. Animation Part 3 - Using MEL

Modelling 1: Digital Sets

1. Part 1: Modelling

2. Part 2: UV Layout & Texture Preperation 

3. Part 3: Lighting

4. Part 4: Colour Maps

5. Part 5: Bump & Specular Maps

6. Part 6: Dirt Maps & Final Render

Animation 1: Intro To Character Animation

1. The Bouncing Ball Part 1: On The Spot

2. The Bouncing Ball Part 2: With Travel & Rotation

3. Pendulum Swing - Settle & Rest

4. Chain - Secondary Action & Overlap

5. Toadstool - Squash & Stretch

6. Arm - Anticipation & Follow-Through

7. Walk Cycles - Mechanics

Intro To Rigging & Constraints

1. Biped Rigging Part 1: Legs

2. Techniques Part 1: Pistons

3. Biped Rigging Part 2: Spine

4. Techniques Part 2: Eyes

5. Biped Rigging Part 3: Arms

6. Techniques Part 3: Can Exchange

7. Biped Rigging Part 4: Neck & Head

8. Techniques Part 4: Tails

Visual FX 1: Deformers

1. Non-Linear Deformers

2. Blend Shapes & In-betweens

3. Creating Mirrored Blend Shapes

4. Wire Deformers

5. Sculpt Deformers

Lighting & Rendering 1: Intro To Lighting

1. External - Mid Day

2. External - Sunset

3. External - Romantic

4. External - Night

5. Internal - Sunset

Pre-Vis 1: Intro To Pre-Vis

1. Camera Part 1 - Custom Camera Rig

2. Camera Part 2 - Pan Shot

3. Camera Part 3 - Roll Shot

4. Camera Part 4 - Pitch Shot

5. Camera Part 5 - Dolly Shot

6. Camera Part 6 - Crane Shot

7. Camera Part 7 - Distance Shot

8. Camera Part 8 - Coverage

9. Camera Part 9 - Camera Shake

10. Camera Part 10 - Contra-Zoom

Texturing 1: Intro To Texturing

1. Networks - Double Sided Shader

2. Networks - X-Ray Shader

3. Networks - Faked Rim Lights

4. Networks - Transparency

5. Maya Fur Presets & Attributes

6. Maya Fur - Santa Hat

Skinning 1 : Intro To Skinning

1. Smooth Bind - Edit Weights

2. Smooth Bind - Paint Weights

3. Smooth Bind Influence Objects

4. Interactive Bind

Visual FX 2: Render Layers & Compositing

1. Stereo Camera Rigs

2. Render Layers (Software)

3. Render Layers Part 2: Depth Of Field

4. Render Layers (Mental Ray)

The Artist's Toolkit - Adding Influence Objects Tutorial

The last tutorial is finally done, had some issues with the tutorial that Ryan helped me overcome. For some strange reason when ever I tried to give the planes influence it would create a duplicate model with _base at the end of its name. Ryan had the same issue and discovered that renaming all the planes for some reason worked, so once I had renamed them all and then added the influence the rest of the tutorial was easy.

The Artist's Toolkit - Interactive Bind & Painting Weights Tutorial

I enjoyed the interactive bind, I felt that it had good results fairly quickly and it is a very visual way of skinning which is nice.

The Artist's Toolkit - Painting Wieghts Tutorial

I found this one a little less mind dulling, it's more of a creative way to adjust the skinning.

The Artist's Toolkit - Smooth Bind & Edit Weights Tutorial

The first of the four skinning tutorial is complete, adjusting the values in the component editor looks quite efficient (Even if it was incredibly tedious), on to the next three.

The Artist's Toolkit - Interior Lighting Tutorial

I had to work in wireframe mode for most of the tutorial which made it pretty difficult, my pc did not enjoy the textured scene.

The Artist's Toolkit - Stereo Camera Tutorial

The Artist's Toolkit - Mental Ray Passes Tutorial

A very useful tutorial that will no doubt be effective in every project. Halfway through the tutorial however I realised there were no textures in the source images folder, so I had to copy them over from the faked rim light tutorial.