Dev Log

My final product: Starting this module, I was highly invested. I was very excited to start making things and this project gave me a great...

Continuing on from the last part, I continued my animation. As I had set out my three action poses I was able to get straight to...

As I have past experience with working with real cameras and understand the different types of shots and rules of film making I was...

As I have experience with video editing, I wanted to add some music to help the video have more of an atmosphere. Adding music to a video...

To build the room around my animation I used NURBS planes. I did this for the four walls and the floor. For the walls, I simply assigned...

To start animating my model I opened a new Maya file and imported both the chair and my teddy bear model. This way I wouldn’t be directly...

As I want the focus to be more on my teddy bear model and the animation in the final render, I decided to make a very simple chair. The...

Now that my model is complete, it’s time to think about how I want to animate it. My initial idea was to just do a walk cycle, but that...

As I’ve now rigged my model the last thing to do before I could start thinking about animation was the texturing. I had been putting off...

Adding the control curves to my model was simple. On every joint that could have individual movement I added one and parented them to...

As mentioned in the last part, I wanted to seek some advice about my IK handle problem, I do so by speaking to one of my lecturers who...

I didn’t expect to struggle with adding IK handles to the legs of my model, however, it proved more difficult than I had initially...

To rig my model, I started by creating joints for it. Knowing that I wanted my model to be able to move like a human would I decided to...

The first step for me to start texturing my model was UV unwrapping it. I struggled with this a fair bit to start off with but managed to...

In the very first part, I said that I wanted to make my teddy bear be in a derelict condition. I wanted it to have rips and stuffing...

Before opening Maya, I sat down and drew three reference images of what my bear is going to look like, as I mentioned in part 2 I haven’t...

As mentioned in the last part I decided to start from scratch and find a better route for making my model. In lesson, we looked at...

Before getting into Maya, I chose to do some quick sketches of the sort of thing that I want my teddy bear to look like. Following on...

For this module, I want to create a model of an old teddy bear. I decided this because the general shape of a teddy bear is simple,...