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.

Fantastic Voyage - Final Animation & Art Of

The Artist's Toolkit - Animation Submission

01. Morph & Mini praxinoscopes Animations

02. Charcoal Animation

03. Pixilation Animations

04. Zeotrope Animation

05. Blob Animation & Sketches

06. Flash Bouncing Ball Animations

07. Line & Taste Animations

08. First Showreel Draft

The Artist's Toolkit - Head Rig & Final Grouping Tutorial

I finished off the Rig today and gave it a little pose.

The Artist's Toolkit - Life Drawing Submission Post

Fantastic Voyage - Scene Breakdowns

Scene 1

Scene 2

Scene 3

Scene 4

Fantastic Voyage - Animation Stills

Here are stills from each scene of my final animation.

Scene 1

Scene 2

Scene 3

 Scene4

Fantastic Voyage - Animation Sound Archive

Here are the sounds that I used throughout the final animation, they were mostly downloaded from freesound.org. The background ambience was layered and adjusted in Adobe Audition, sound effects were then added in Premiere as and when they were needed. Some of these sounds were also used in the epilogue.

Fantastic Voyage - Live Action Sound Archive

Here is the sound effects I used for the live action parts of my final animation, they were mostly downloaded from freesound.org and then arranged in Adobe Audition.

FV LA Intro Mixdown: This is the final mix for the background ambience, I used most of the sounds in it to give it some depth. I think it works quite well in with the shot.

Fantastic Voyage - Final Script

The Artist's Toolkit - Legs, Spine and Arm Biped Rig Tutorial

I forgot to upload these as I did them, so I decided to do the arm tutorial and upload it all in one. Just the head to go.

The Artist's Toolkit - Sculpt Deformer Tutorial