Animation

Emotional Stills

Lastly, the screens of my emotional poses.

The final task we were assigned to do was to create a 10 second lip sync. There were no other requirements just that it was at least 10 seconds. For this i created the scene from Star Wars episode 3: Revenge of the Sith, where Darth Sidious initiates order 66.

Below is the video of the scene:

To help me create my lip sync i used phonemes. These are the position of the mouth and tounge when certain letters and phrases are spoken. Below is an image of the phoneme chart i used:

Below is the video for my lip sync:

Walk Cycle

For the 4th task we were assigned to create a walk cycle animation. Like the jump animation i used a picture and a video to help me make my own.
Below is that picture:

Below is that video:

Below is the video of my walk cycle:

Jump Cycle

The 3rd task we were assigned to do was to create a jump cycle animation. I had to do some research for this and used one video and one image to help me create my jump.
Below is that image:

Below is that video:

During the course of the week i made my jump cycle. Below is the video for my jump cycle:

Obstacle course

The second task we were assigned was to create an obstacle course style animation.
For this i decided to base mine on a pinball machine, below is the video for my obstacle course animation:

Ball bounces

The first task we were assigned was to create a ball bounce animation for two different balls of two different masses.
I chose to do a tennis ball and a bowling ball because they are each completley different in mass.
Before making each animation i used reference videos from YouTube to help me determine the timings of the balls bouncing.
Below is a link to the video i used for the tennis ball:

Below is a link to the video i used for the bowling ball:

Below is the video for my tennis ball animation:

Below is the video for my bowling ball animation:

Intro to Animation for Games Artists

In this module i will be learning the principles of animation and how to animate my own animations on maya itself.

This blog will include:
My two ball bounce animations - Tennis ball and Bowling ball
Obstacle course animation
Walk Cycle
Jump Cycle
Lip sync
Emotional poses (still photos)