CG Artist Toolkit: Maya Tutorials & Film Reviews Submission Post

Pipeline 2: Games Modelling

Modelling Part 1: Low Resolution

Modelling Part 2: UV Layout

Modelling Part 3: High Resolution

Pipeline 2: Normal & Occ Maps

Maps Part 1: Base Normal Maps

Maps Part 2: Rope Normal Map

Maps Part 3: Ambient Occlusion Maps

Pipeline 2: Diffuse Maps & Viewport 2.0

Maps Part 4: Base Diffuse Maps

Maps Part 5: Diffuse Maps - Stone Base

Maps Part 6: Diffuse Maps - Stone Pillars

Maps Part 7: Diffuse Maps - Rope

Maps Part 8: Diffuse Maps - Wood & Metal

Maps Part 9: Diffuse Maps - Fabric Flag 

Maps Part 10: Normal Maps Using Xnormal & Photoshop – Shield 

Maps Part 11: Using Viewport 2.0 for Look Development & Rendering 

Pipeline 2: Shader FX

Part 1- Intro to Shader FX Networks
Part 2- Displacement

Part 3: Lighting
Part 4: Transparency
Part 5: Reflection
Part 6: UV's & Animation

Dynamics 1: Intro to Particle Dynamics

Part 1: Sketching Particles

Part 2: Particles Grids

Part 3: Omni Emitters

Part 4: Directional Emitters

Part 5: Volume Emitters

Part 6: Emit From Curves

Part 7: Per Point Emission

Part 8: Surface Emission

Part 9: Curve Flow

Part 10: Emit From Particles

Part 11: Collision Events

Part 12: Instancing Objects

Part 13: Instance Rotations

Part 14: Animated Instances
Part 15: Conditional Goal Weights
Part 16: Goal Weights
Part 17: Sprites

Lighting & Rendering 2: Mental Ray Lighting Techniques

Part 1: Samples & Quality Control

Part 2: Final Gather

Part 3: Linear Workflow

Part 4: Physical Sun & Sky

Part 5: Portal Lights

Part 6: Mia Material X Shader

Part 7: High Dynamic Range Image (HDR) Lighting & Fixing Incorrect Meta Data

Part 8: Displacement Maps

Part 9: Ambient Occlusion
Part 10: Motion Blur
Part 11: Mental Ray Proxies

Adaptation Film Reviews

Mary & Max 
Paprika 
Sita Sings the Blues 
Waltz with Bashir 
Persepolis 
Belleville Rendezvous 
When the Wind Blows
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Acting Class (Session 4)

For the last acting class, it was all about trying to let the character your partner have chosen for you to shine through with very minimal words use and by wearing the mask, we were supposed to acting nothing like ourselves.

It was a great class because it is just like the saying 'Action speaks louder than words'.

Dynamics Part 17: Sprites

This is my outcome from the Sprites tutorial.

Dynamics Part 16: Conditional Goal Weights

Here is the outcome from the Conditional Goal Weights tutorial.

Lighting & Rendering Part 2: Mental Ray Part 11 (Mental Ray Proxies)

This is the outcome from the mental ray proxies tutorial.

Lighting & Rendering Part 2: Mental Ray Part 10 (Motion Blur)

This is the outcome from the first part of the motion blur tutorial.

This is the outcome to the second part of the motion blur tutorial.

Motion Blur by 1

Motion Blur by 5

Maya 3D Motion Blur

Maya 3D Motion blur with Shutter Opened

Acting Class (Session 3)

Today's class was all about appeal. There were several items that's been laid out and our task was to go to the right item that the team has picked out for us. The item was not what it seems to be. It was challenging because it can be quite frustrating to have the item at hand and not knowing what it was. The possibility of what the item could be was endless. However, the reaction we received from the audience helped us figure out what it eventual was. In this sense, we came up with tons of ideas to guess the possibility and some actions were certainly entertaining! 

My item was a hole puncher. I had to act it out to figure what it was. Mine was eventually supposed to be a person clipping her toenails.

Josh had one of the hardest as he had two items. It was the mannequin and the belt. The mannequin was supposed to be a flute and him playing it to entertain the cobra (belt).

Anthony had the hat for his item. The hat represented a piece of towel and was supposed to used to wipe his bump.

Will had the roll of toilet paper and it was supposed to be a fan.

Tom also had the harder ones. His items were the shawl and the South Park character. He was supposed to be giving birth to it and had the shawl to cover it.

Sukhi had a mug as her item and it was supposed to represent a kitten. Her role was to stroke the kitten.

Rosalyn had a glove as an item. It was supposed to represent a banana where she had to peel it.

Sam had a brush and it was supposed to be a microphone and he's a rock singer.

The Items

For the second half of the lesson, we were to adapt from the previous person pose and made a scene out of it. 

Autodesk Mudbox Lesson 5: Curves(Retopology) and Turntable

For today's mudbox lesson, we learnt to retopologize our mesh.

Sculpt 1

Sculpt 2 (Development from Sculpt 1)

This is the curves created on the mesh before retopologizing.

Here is the turntable of my model.

Acting Class (Session 2)

For our second acting class, it was all about about social statuses- A's being the lowest and 10 the highest. We were given the cards and had to stick them on our foreheads. We were supposed to guess what number was on it by the way we were treated by the people around us.

The second part to the class was when we were given a scenario where we were to play both the high and the low of the same role to see the differences. It was t see how everything changes because of a person's status.

Heidi (the mother) was to come up with ways to meet Josh's (the son) partner that was picking him up before he left home. Josh's objective was to go out without doing so.

Ayunie and Ruby are friends who went on a camping trip.  Ruby's objective was to insist that she hears a noise and wants  to leave. Ayunie's objective was to insists on staying and carried on with the trip.

Rosalyn and Sam are friends. Rosalyn's objective was to avoid and not acknowledge that Sam had a new haircut. Sam's objective was to tell her he had a new haircut.

Anthony (The Father) opens up Sukhi's (The daughter) letters. Her objective was to tell him to stop opening her letter and his was to deny that he open them.

Tom's (The worker) objective was to ask Anthony (the boss) for a promotion and Anthony's objective was to deny him because of his bad work ethics.

In this class, much can be learnt about how a status affects someone's role and I find it easier to be taking up the role of someone in the higher class than the lower ones. I very much enjoyed it and it definitely helps me with my Adaptation B because my character is a goddess and it gave me an idea how I can animate her walk cycle. A very informative class indeed! :)