Intro to Rigging & Constraints: Eyes & Spine

Intro to Rigging & Constraints: Feet and Legs & Leg Piston

The Principals of Digital Animation: Stretch and Squash

The Principals of Digital Animation: Anticipation and Followthrough

Secret Lair: Final Render

Just so there is no confusion, this is my final render of my secret lair :)

Secret Lair: Final Renders

Final renders of my lair, overall I'm pretty happy with the result considering thisis my first maya attempt and modelling an interior :)

Secret Lairs: Progress... UV's and texturing

Finished laying out my UV's on my scene and started to texture my scene. I also increased the lighting I will go back once the textures are painted in, and then 'pump' them up a bit more and play with the contrasting oranges and blues. I was playing around with the floor and still unsure how to make it work, the plain text and puring (First one) seemed too genericlain so I decided to make a plain with a 3d texture and then used a displacement map to give it depth within the image, I think this is working better however it still needs some work. Also included using a bump map on the walls to make it feel more 'cavy' and 'rocky'.

Secret Lair: Basic Lighting Set up

Experimenting with the basic lighting set up seeing how dark I want the scene to be and seeing how the distance on the ambient occlusion node effects the scene. It seemed to of made everything mid grey at first but by increasing the distance I feel it has given the image more depth. Now onto texturing and I can tweak the lighting later on when I am texturing. I had a pink light source under my font in my concept art but I'm not 100% sure how I would do this, so I will experiment with that later on. Any advice for this scene would be great :).

Secret Lairs: Lighting set up - beginning

Experimenting with the lighting set up, these are my first couple of renders and my final composition that I am going to work with. I need ot capture the essance of the light blue and the warm candle lighting therefore I had an idea of the blue light source coming from the font it self, this will also help with the focal point of the image.

Secret Lairs: Finish Modelling

 Finishing off the modelling for my scene, I need to work on the hero prop and find a way to model the peacock feathers and then onto lighting :)

Secret Lair: Modelling

Beginning of my Maya scene for my secret Lair. I need to make the lair more 'cave like' and explore with the overall structure. Then finish modelling the candles and lights on the wall and finally onto uv texturing and lighting :)

Autodeask Maya: Old Alleyway Scene - Modelling

Alleyway Scene

Crate

Lamp post

Modelling done for the Alleyway, now onto the lighting and texturing, well this took longer than expected...

Autodesk Maya: MEL Robot Animation

Autodesk Maya: Retro Rocket Animation

Autodesk: Maya: Car Animation Rig

Maya catch up time :)

Maya Tutorial: Pencil and Rubber Lighting

After completing the lighting tutorial I managed to get my characters done as well in our Maya class today.

Maya Tutorial: Lighting 1

 Lighting Tutorial :)

Maya Tutorial: Character Texturing

And another one! Texturing the characters finally. Now onto lighting and rendering!