Keyframe Animation
Graph Editor:
Curves/Weighted Tangents
Keys/Free Tangent Weight
Introducing Maya 2009: Chapter 8, pp 346-353- Bouncing a Ball.
Layer Editor
Homework Proposal:
Project 1
Simple Structure
Use primitives and booleans to build a simple structure. Animate to show how it works.
Use material colors to differentiate between elements, render a playblast.
Examples: DoorOpen.mb in Courses/2009-2010/AC749_Berezina_AU09/Project1
Teaparty.mb/doc and Tricycle.mb/doc
1. Describe the idea of your animation.
2. Make a list of actions taking place over time, simultaneously and in sequence.
3. Make a list of models. Include your plan in making each model.
4. Collect photo references for the models.
Although you don't have the skills yet to make realistic models, animation or lighting, consider other ways to communicate realism:
1. Scene setup (What elements of location are important, ie ground plane, walls, etc)
2. Relationships between objects. (Are positions and orientation of models make it possible for realistic interaction between them? Between them and a user?)
3. Timing of events. (Do things happen in a sequence or simultaneosly? Do they take same amount of time?)
4. Can the idea you are communicating be understood without your explanation?
Proposal for Project 1 is due on Tuesday, October 13.
Project 1 is due Tuesday, October 20. |