Keyframing

Ok...I have made my potato roll with lots of KEYFRAMING!

Gah...I made a clip which makes life easier...now I have to find out how to loop it.

Instead of making the potato roll, i am creating the illusion of it rolling by moving a displacement map within a plane to FOOL the audience. Position the camera corractly, and BADA BING...works wonders.

Hmmm

Ok...So I have talked to Hages and he thinks the Anti-climax is a bit hows your father... So i have settled with making the potato roll and dodge knives, then escape the chip factory... HOORAH!

I have modeled a potato today and applied a texture I made by taking a photo of a potato. It worked very well.

Object/character?

Ok, so after talking with people from my class, I have decided to base my animation arou8nd an object...maybe...depending on the storyline I create. A lot of people seem to be making characters that walk/talk etc...but I want to make an object with a life.

Thats where I am at.

Ideas for 3D animation

I've had a few ideas, like incorporating some items I used in the last assignment...but I feel like starting from scratch.

Most people seem to want to create a character of some sort in their own environment so I might go with that. Using skeletons and such (after doing the tutes) shouldn't be too hard. I seemed to tackle them ok.

Im just going to experiment with Maya and see what I could achieve. Instead of worrying this time about what I CAN do, I'm just going to pick a story and worry about that along the way.