One of our first assignments was to create a very simple character and develop parent/child relationships between the different body parts. My maya trainer, Jeff, was pretty adamant about keeping it simple and just replicating the example image we were provided with, so my character isn't anything special. I am, however, really happy with the way the environment came out. I decided to model my living room and the front exterior of my apartment, with my character eating some cereal on the couch. Next we learned how to use shaders, which allowed me to add color to my project. Finally we learned some basic lighting techniques and moved on to animation. These are some rendered images of my lighting assignment.
We just started our animation assignments. This was my latest attempt at animating two bouncing balls. Believe it or not but it was surprisingly time consuming.
For our next assignment we'll be working with a crane. We'll start by blocking out our key poses and then in subsequent sessions we'll finish it up. I'll post the blocking when I finish it next week. I'll make sure to update this more often from now on!
