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Miles' Maya: Lt. Dan walks among us

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Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Lt Dan walks among us. Behold, your next rig- Lt. Dan! This time we've got legs and feet. . . and an optional tail. This time, we're doing walk and run cycles. Oh yes. Click here to download the Lieutenant Dan rig. Lt Dan and the bouncing ball rig were designed and built by Matt Ornstein! Props to him, I say! We'll take a look at your first efforts on Monday, April 20. Here's a 5 minute Miles video introducing the Lt. Dan rig:. Here's the link to the youtube page. View my compl...

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Miles' Maya: May 2013

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Revised Animatics Due Tuesday, May 28. We'll look at your revised animatics on Tuesday, May 28. All will be revealed. Tuesday, May 14, 2013. 1:00-3:00 on Wednesday, June 12. Final Projects due! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Art/EMDA 353 Fall 15 Syllabus. Revised Fall 15 Due Dates. Fall 15 Lab Hours. Fall 15 Lab Hours Google Doc. Fall 15 Lab Hours Excel Download. 2014 Winter Crimbus Dancers. Art 353 3D Modeling Lighting Syllabus. Winter 2011 Art 353 Syllabus. Miles' Blog - Inadaville.

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Miles' Maya: Ballin'

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Monday, April 6, 2015. Okay, here's PROJECT ONE: Create two loops of a bouncing ball. Create Loop One using a basic Maya primitive sphere. Create Loop Two using the Ball Rig. Make a blog for your work if you don't already have one. Gimme the link. Render both animations (Playblast is fine) and post them to a web video service (vimeo, youtube, etc) and then yer blog. Make sure they loop at least 5 times! Due by Monday, April 5. Don't forget to get set up with yer free Maya download. Fall 15 Lab Hours.

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Miles' Maya: March 2014

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Sunday, March 30, 2014. 3D Animation Maya Timeline Reference. How to kick those keys around in the Timeline! Turn Auto Keying on and off. Click the little key icon to the right of the timeline. Red is on, black is off. Move a Single Key. Shift Left Click on a key. Let go. Click and drag on the inner. Set of arrows to move it to its new location. When you're done, click somewhere else in the timeline to cancel out of the move/scale mode. Move a Range of Keys. Scale a Range of Keys. Enter new numbers in th...

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Miles' Maya: Ball Actin'

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Wednesday, April 8, 2015. SOU alum Steve Hammond. Shows how to get it done! Beginning, middle, end. Character, deliberate action. Rough Cut crit. Wednesday, April 9. Final Cut. Monday, April 14. Check out Steve Hammond's work! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Art/EMDA 353 Fall 15 Syllabus. Revised Fall 15 Due Dates. Fall 15 Lab Hours. Fall 15 Lab Hours Google Doc. Fall 15 Lab Hours Excel Download. 2014 Winter Crimbus Dancers. Art 353 3D Modeling Lighting Syllabus. Winter 2011 Art 353 Syllabus.

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Miles' Maya: February 2015

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Tuesday, February 17, 2015. Project 5: Character Makin'. Time for some Mudboxin'. Make a character- or six. We'll talk basic modeling this week, then get into texture in the next. Your finished character will be due on Thursday, February 26. Start low poly and work on the big detail and silhouettes FIRST. Don't get into fine detail until you've established the silhouette and big forms. Here's a video on how to use the pose tools in Mudbox. Tuesday, February 3, 2015. Project 4: MIDTERM Refine the City!

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Miles' Maya: May 2011

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Tuesday, May 31, 2011. FINAL TIME IS CHANGED! Thursday, June 9, 3:30. Oops- Miles is going to watch his one and only darling son graduate from 5th grade . . . at 1:30, so we'll use the 3:30 final time instead. Charge! Animation student editing his final project in Wooly Willy. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Art/EMDA 353 Fall 15 Syllabus. Revised Fall 15 Due Dates. Fall 15 Lab Hours. Fall 15 Lab Hours Google Doc. Fall 15 Lab Hours Excel Download. 2014 Winter Crimbus Dancers. Winter 2011 Art 353 Syllabus.

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Miles' Maya: May 2010

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Monday, May 24, 2010. 3D Animation Final Project Due Date. Oh the wonders we'll behold at the 2010 3D Animation Final! The final critique for Art 354 3D Animation is:. Thursday, June 3 from 3:30 - 5:30 pm. Thursday, May 6, 2010. Here are some full biped rigs to play with! Click the images to download! Man, it's LowMan. Ho Ho, it's pjlHogan. Pick a fave. Pit them against each other. Have them battle Lt. Dan. Go crazy. Also, if you're into exploring the unknown, head over to Creative Crash. Simple template...

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Miles' Maya: March 2015

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Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Here's the basic Maya interface. Click on the images below to enlarge 'em. You'll be rooting around quite a bit in the Timeline. Learn this inside n' out:. Before you start animating, click the animation preferences button at the far right of the Timeline (see above) to set the Playback speed to Real-Time. If you don't do this, your animation will play back insanely fast. Yikes! While, we're in Preferences, let's set our Frame Rate (Frames Per Second a.k.a. FPS. Move a Single Key.

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Miles' Maya: March 2011

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Thursday, March 31, 2011. Animation Project 01: Bouncing Ball 1. Create two short animation loops using a polygon sphere. Create a couple of short animations (5-6 seconds) using the Ball Rig. Will be a ball bouncing. New concepts: Timing and spacing. New tech: Graph Editor. A ball bouncing with squash and stretch. New concepts: Hold keys and keying attributes separately. Ball Story by Swanky SOU Alum Steve Hammond. This animations must demonstrate. 1 Squash and stretch. 6 Smooth, natural motion arcs.