Maya Tutorial | Part 3: Bullet Active, Passive, & Rigid Body Sets | Vase

Minor/Major Project | Updated Orthographs

Minor/Major Project | Orthographic Drawings | Jayden

Maya Tutorials | Dynamics 2 Ncloth | Part 1 - Introduction

Minor/Major Project | The 'Jayden Tapes' | Animatic with Sound

Minor/Major Project | Interim Crit Presentation

Minor/Major Project Interim Crit | The Jayden Tapes by Samuel on Scribd

Minor/Major Project | Jayden Tapes | Edited Drawings (Superheroes)

For the edited drawings,  I figured that the way the drawings should be coloured, should be how a child colours pictures. This way I can keep the drawings feeling childish and playful.

Minor/Major Project | Jayden Tapes | Scanned Superhero Drawings

Minor/Major Project | Jayden Tapes | Scanned Alien Drawings

Maya | Arnold | Override Sets

Maya | Arnold | Toon Shader

Minor/Major Project | Lined Paper Test | 3d

For my project I went back and listened to the clip of Jayden and discovered that the story he is coming up with is so childish that it could only be shown in the the form of a child imagination or drawings. This gave me the idea of attempting to bring alive his drawings into a 3d paper world.
I want to try and test many different methods to get a look that sympathizes with the drawings Jayden has provided.

This is the first trial of the '3d Paper World'. I have tried to capture the messy style of Jayden's coloring on the texture for the trees, flooring and house. I have used a layered shader on the tree leaves to try get a cartoon effect. I quite like the looks of the lined paper effect in the world, although it may take a few tests to see if it's 3d that suits it best.

I would also like to include a bit more colouring in the scene too.

The house in the scene is modelled from one of Jayden's drawings of a house. The original image of the drawing is below:

As I have Jayden visiting over the course of next weekend, I would like to get some more drawings off of him to see if they can also translate to Maya. I want to also try some 3d animation and 2d animation tests to see how they are. 

Maya Tutorials | Arnold 2018 | Compositing Different Layers

All Layers added using EXtractoR

Color- Corrected Pre-Comp

Maya Tutorials | Arnold 2018 | Standard Surface

Today we learnt that within 2018 the Ai Standard and SSS that was used within Maya 2017 has now been combined to make a better and easier way to make textures.

Above I was able to try out a variety of different presets that fiddle about with some of the settings, this is so that my textures look as real as possible.

Maya Tutorial | Learning Arnold | AO, Wireframe and Skin

AO Render

Wireframe Render

Skin Render

I found the new ways of rendering within Arnold to be interesting. Especially with the new way of texturing and rendering skin. The skin render separates the different layers of skin so that each layer can be painted and applied.

***Model from Eat 3d***

3rd Year Project | Idea | Research | 'Jayden Tapes'

Working Title: 'Jayden Tapes'

For my 3rd Year idea, I posed the idea of recording my little 5-Year-Old brother talking about a random situation concocted from his imagination. After travelling back home to Kettering to see Jayden, I was confronted with a thousand cuddles and some mild extortion for all traces of sugary treat. After the sweets had been guzzled, Jayden felt the need to get a story off his chest!
I was certainly excited to see that he has now come up with a fantastical story about him fighting thousands of aliens, to helping out superheroes. Oh, there's even a point where he transforms into a dinosaur and all sorts of stuff. After trimming down the original recordings I have the sound file below to show for it. Hopefully I will be taking this sound file on wards to be the foundations of the project.

Jayden Tapes_ Sound File


The idea for the start of the story is essentially based within a normal living room. I quiz Jayden about his day/night and he then introduces the story. Despite being set in the living room, I would like any imaginings from Jayden to jump into a world that's like a 2d side-scroller but in 3d. Things would jump back to the living room at given points within the animation for comedic effect. The 'Imagined' scenes designs could be in the style of child-friendly games, much like a variety of Nintendo games or even like some lesser known games like Shopping Cart Hero 5.

Art Style Ideas

In unison with these design ideas above, I think that it would be really effective if I was to apply a childish design to the whole theme of the animation. The best example I can think of is much like the music video of Nizlopi's 'JCB song'.

Maya | Experimenting with Textures | House | Wall and Roof | Attempt 1

As the idea I'd like to do consists of two houses and their back gardens as the main setting, I thought I'd use this opportunity to carry on practicing texturing. For now, I am trying some different brick textures and roof tile textures. Below is my first attempt. I feel like it was a success but I also feel that the textures I have opted for are too realistic for what I would like to go for. Next attempt will be trying to get a more unrealistic look for the bricks especially. Also I feel like some of the house should be re-modeled to look more un-realistic if I am aiming for a more 'cartoony' vibe.

Maya Tutorials | Professional Practice | Resit Submission

Professional Practice | Resit Submission

• Maya Tutorial | Games Assets | Maps 1-11
• Maya Tutorials | Pipeline 1 | Skinning | Parts 3-7
• Maya Tutorials | Pipeline 1 | Rigging | Part 1-4
• Maya Tutorials | Pipeline 1 | Facial Rigging | Parts 1-5
• Maya Tutorials | Pipeline 1 | Facial Rigging | Parts 6-9
• Maya Tutorials | Pipeline 1 | Facial Rigging | Parts 10-13
• Maya Tutorials | Pipeline 1 | Texturing | Parts 1 & 2

Unfortunately, I was unable to finish the very last few texturing tutorials for Pipeline 1. This is because I was unable to progress as the 'Rivet' MEL code was not working. It's a shame as I wanted to have finished the whole creation of Jetpack Jones. I would like to resume the tutorials and finish off anything that has been left.

There are no ShaderFX tutorials completed as i couldn't double click on the Texture Map Node so that it would appear in the attributes layer. Despite ensuring that DirectX11 was installed. It has been recently been made to my attention that is might be a new bug in Maya.

Maya Tutorials | Pipeline 1 | Texturing | Parts 1 & 2

Part 1 - High and Low-Res Modelling for Normal Maps

Part 2 - Baking Normal Maps

Maya Tutorials | Pipeline 1 | Facial Rigging | Parts 10-13

Part 10 - Adding Extra Face Movement

Part 11 - Adding a Blink

Part 12 - Adding Brow Movement

Part 13 - Cleaning Up the Scene

Maya Tutorials | Pipeline 1 | Facial Rigging | Parts 6-9

Part 6 - Adding Teeth and Tongue

Part 7 - Lateral Mouth Movement Part 1

Part 8 - Lateral Mouth Movement Part 2

Part 9 - Adding Cheek Thinning

Maya Tutorials | Pipeline 1 | Facial Rigging | Parts 1-5

Part 1 - Creating a Head Skeleton and Binding

Part 2 - Creating Head Controls & An Eye Look Rig

Part 3 - 5 - Creating a Flexible Mouth Rig