Solar System Animation

Finally, my animated sequence!

Solar systemmmmm... Circular movements, I found, were a little more difficult than I anticipated. After rendering, I see that there are some parts that are not completely smooth. And yes, I know. No Venus! :P

Motion Tracking Project

It took me a while to get this uploaded for several reasons:

One, I was having trouble in general trying to figure out how to get the sequence onto Maya and then the steps you take from there. In Maya, it took me way longer than it should to get the camera set up. Maya shut down a number of times on me, which was rather irritating.

I tried placing a relevant object into my scene, which textures and everything, but when I tried doing this, Maya would shut down. So in order for me to fulfill this project, I simply inserted a non-textured sphere. And voila!

This was a deceptively difficult exercise. I'm glad I learned it, but I wish that Maya wasn't being so buggy.

Particles (Fluid Motion)

Made an ocean (a tempestuous one at that) and floating log. I tried to render a longer animation than this, but it would stop at 60 frames. Not sure why.

But here it is!



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Edit [10:29 p.m.]
BLASTED. I think my slow internet connection ruined the upload of the video somehow. It took nearly 1.5 hrs to upload it! Ack!! i will try again when I get on campus, where internet connection is must faster and more reliable.



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Edit [11/5/2010 ; 4:05 p.m.]

Ok, so second upload didn't work. So, I uploaded it to YouTube. Here it is. I really wish I could render more frames, but I'm not sure how to. Three seconds doesn't do this animation justice and I want to sea more!