Thursday, 17 April 2008

wk 9: almost done!

Captains log, Star date 569685: Below are the rest of my videos to date with an explanation of how I made it.



As I had not yet modelled a face in detail I decided to have my crying child look a bit more cartoon-ish, so with alot of help from some studio max tutorials I managed to achieve a childs face and make him cry!



Once I had modelled the face I used the editable poly to animate the smile by keyframing the movement of the vertexes. Then I made a teardrop from a sphere then added a transparent material to it and keyframed it moving down the face, then cloned it and altered each drop slightly to make the child look as if he is crying.

For effect I made the background dim and also made the childs head shake to add to the tradgedy!





Also I forgot to post a video of my deckchair that collapses so here it is:

(I modelled the chair from seperate parts and simply keyframed each part to collapse whilst corresponding with the general demise of the rest of the chair at the same time.


3 comments:

damien murphy said...

what really amazing you create face, it is really good, how you doing make child cry!! you impressd me!

Lisiang said...

Paul, the child crying is absolutely awesome! Funny stuff too if you're aiming to make the audience laugh!

Anonymous said...

The face animation looks superb!

I also really how the cloth collapses in the deck chair animation, Nice work!