Week 14: Robot Arm

This week I learned about link constraints and pivot point adjustments. I adjusted the pivot points of the robot arm and used the parent and child setting so i can animate the robot arm. I learned how to use link constraints so i could have the robot arm have an object attach to it in a certain frame so it looks as if the arm is picking up the object.

Week 13: renderd animation of rigged character

This week I animated my rigged character doing a front flip. I used the foot steps then animated the character in between the path for the footsteps. I didn't want to just render a scene with a mo-cab applied to the character. So this my attempt to animate a front flip on my rigged character.

Week 12: rigging a new character

This week I modeled and rigged a character. This is my second character that I have rigged, I did a much better job rigging this character. The character look really good when I gave it motion capture compared to my previous rigged character.

week 11: Rigging

 

This week rigging a basic 3d character was the main goal. The rigging was a bit of a challenge but I think it turned out relatively good for a first time. I am now working towards a new model with more detail to fully rig up. I plan to put my best effort into this detailed model so it will look nice when it is fully rigged.

Week 10: Flash

This week we started looking into Maya and Flash. Maya is a lot like 3ds Max, there are things that I yet to identify as different from the two programs. The program that I was most interested this week was Flash, I have always enjoyed stop motion animation and Flash seems like it has a lot of tools i have yet to discover. Hopefully I will be able to use the program future.

Week 9: Kuder

The Kuder assessments suggested many jobs for me. The two job that stood out to me were Film and Video Editor and Camera operator. these both seem like very likely jobs for my future. I have always been interested in being a camera man since I young. But in the video editing class I took a year ago has really opened me up to the field of video editing.

Week 7: Presentation

This week I finished and presented my project. I felt the project went well and was good. There were some things I wish i would have done more with, but time constraints made that not possible.