2D Character Rigging: Part 5 - Construction

Although all the pieces were in order (proof on right) Maya didn't like the layering and was glitching layers through each other, even with a large gap, I will however still continue on. Now I Just have to do the front and back before moving onto the next video/tutorial.

2D Character Rigging: Part 3&4 - Texturing

2D Character Rigging: Part 2 - Texture Projection

2D Character Rigging: Part 1 - Modelling

Dynamics 1: Part 2 - Onmi Emitters

Dynamics 1: Part 2 - Onmi Emitters from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

Dynamics 1: Part 2 - Particles Grids

Dynamics 1: Part 2 - Particles Grids from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

Dynamics 1: Part 1 - Sketching Particles

Dynamics: Legacy Particles - Sketching Particles from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

Toolkit 2 Submission

Pipeline 1: Jetpack Jones

Head Modelling

Head Modelling - Part 1: Preparation
Head Modelling - Part 2: Rough Blocking
Head Modelling - Part 3: Rough Blocking Continued
Head Modelling - Part 4: The Mouth
Head Modelling - Part 5: The Eye
Head Modelling - Part 6: The Nose
Head Modelling - Part 7: The Brow
Head Modelling - Part 8: The Ear & Neck
Head Modelling - Part 9: Sculpting& Cleanup
Head Modelling - Part 10: Creating Detailed Eyes
Head Modelling - Part 11: Adding a Throat
Head Modelling - Part 12: Eyebrows
Head Modelling - Part 13: Skull Cap
Head Modelling - Part 14: Snagging

Body Modelling

Body Modelling - Part 1: Torso Blocking
Body Modelling - Part 2: Torso & Arms
Body Modelling - Part 3: Legs & Pelvis
Body Modelling - Part 4: Legs & Boots
Body Modelling - Part 5: Gloved Hands
Body Modelling - Part 6: Hands & The Final Model

UV Layout
Skinning
Rigging
Facial Rigging 1
Facial Rigging 2
Facial Rigging 3
Texturing 
Final Turnarounds


Lighting and Rendering 2

Arnold - Part 1: Rendering with Arnold [Class Lecture]

Arnold - Part 2: Sampling and Noise Reduction

Arnold - Part 3: Ray Depth

Arnold - Part 4: Linear Workflow [Class Lecture]

Arnold - Part 5: Maya Lights

Arnold - Part 6: Light Filters

Arnold - Part 7: Stylised Internal Lighting

Arnold - Part 8: HDR Images

Arnold - Part 9: Sky Dome Light

Arnold - Part 10: Stylised External Lighting

Arnold - Part 11: Standard Surface Shader

Arnold - Part 12: Toon Shader

Arnold - Part 13: Geometry Override Sets

Arnold - Part 14: Physical Sky Light

Arnold - Part 15: Advanced Internal Lighting (Portal Lights) [To be confirmed due to software bug]

Arnold - Part 16: Mesh Lights

Arnold - Part 17: Ambient Occlusion

Arnold - Part 18: Photometric Lights

Arnold - Part 19: Depth of Feild

Arnold - Part 20: Fog (Legacy) & Atmosphere

Arnold - Part 21: Displacement

Arnold - Part 22: Sub Surface Scattering

Arnold - Part 23: AOV's 

Arnold - Part 24: Stand Ins (Proxies)

Arnold - Part 25: Motion Blur

Arnold - Part 26: Caustics

Infographics

Turning Junk into Gold

Development

Pirates of the Caribbean (Revised)

Mudbox

Mudbox Lessons HERE

Life drawing

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

Week 15

Week 16

Week 17

Week 18

Week 19

Sculpting

All lessons Here

Lip Sync

Lessons Here

Acting Lesson

Waiting to be assessed

Character Production Bible

Production Bible

Weightlifting Animation

Weightlifter

Toolkit 2: Info graphic - Final Animation

Toolkit 2: Infographic - Final Animation from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

Jen and my final animation for InfoGraphics based on Pirates of the Carribean - On stranger tides, it was great fun working on this project and being able to play around / experiment with several different styles and techniques to create the final animation.

CG Artists Toolkit - Pirates of the Carribbean

After Discussing a lot with Jen we came up with a rough idea of how we wanted our title scene to look. I did some rough drawings based on how we wanted it to look. However discussing our ideas with Alan these plans have now changed, as we realised a lot of the design everything was based on circles and objects being rotated. So our new plan will be to use this to our advantage and have everything working around a circle in the centre of the screen that changes size depending on the environment.

Below is the rough drawings that I had done, these will all now be changed and added into our new and improved idea. 

Title page (now been revised) from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

CG Artists Toolkit - Pirates of the Carribean

For this project I am collaborating with Jen - her blog link is Here. We decided to work on an opening credits scene for Pirates of the Carribean, from this we also agreed on the specific film "On Stranger Tides." This is because we felt that there were a lot of ideas that could come from this film. We had several key ideas that we wanted to add, such as ...

• Skull
• Leaves from the island
• Mermaids
• Chalices 
• Ships Wheel 
• Ship
• Portraits/silhouettes of the main characters  
• Map

I decided on creating some chalices in Maya that looked like the originals, as I didn't feel confident enough to draw them by hand, from this I brought them into Photoshop and started to have a good look into styles and what would be most appropriate and link in best with the film.

We decided to have a very simple approach with bold, but flat colours, adding patterns or shapes inside the design to make it simpler to see. Silhouettes such as Captain Jack would have more details to show off compared to a skull for example.

Quick Challenge - Turning junk into gold