Week 6

Week 6

Adding blend shapes to the dress to make the baubles move. Not a perfect system as the computer creates a straight path rather than the wanted pendulum effect. Should get by if I use the system sparingly.

Rather odd problem of a infinitely inflating blend shape. Increasing the blend shape would cause the controlled object to move, but decreasing it did nothing. This resulted in one of the baubles on my characters dress to grow bigger than the character. (No picture, reverted to an old save to avoid a crash). I think it was caused by accidentally moving the wrong slider while edit was enabled on another blend shape. Kind of funny, kind of frightening.

Maya keeps crashing when I try to import my character into the scene. Seems to overload the computer.

Finally got my scene and character in the same work space after an hour of Maya crashing. Nina suggested I try importing the scene into the character file rather than the other way around which was what is was doing. Seems to  have worked. Computer is lagging badly though.

Scale the character to the scene doesn't seem to work either. Had to scale the scene to the character (sitting around times 16 - times 17 the scale of the original)

Spent an hour reworking the lighting set up for the first few shots