Lighting

This week I’ve been re-rigging the Alien. She has a modified Mia skeleton out of MotionBuilder. I worked with finishing off the dance motion capture and am close to a final product. Below is the image of the skinned alien.

Rigged Alien

This is the dancing alien. She is rigged with the modified Mia skeleton and had a 3 fingered capture attached to her that was captured in ViconiQ.

Early this weekend my markers arrived for my custom motion capture gloves.  Many hours later I finally had found decent gloves and arranged all 30 markers in their proper positions on the gloves, specifically for my hands.  I also borrowed a full sized keyboard to play during the capture session this Sunday, 12-5pm.

Left Hand

Right Hand

Both

Alien with motion capture of me doing the twist added to it.

Here’s a basic lighting scenario with the piano modeled by Kyle Blair.  I’ll be texturing and continue lighting it over the weekend.

Piano with Basic Lighting

For this project I plan to render with Mental Ray.  Here are a few stills from a test lighting scene I did for TECH316 this summer.

Frame 1

Frame 50

Frame 200

Lighting Test

I spent the weekend organizing my plan for the project. Now that I have the majority of the modeling covered I’m going to be working on the space scenes until I get those models.  At that point I will texture the models and continue on with the space scenes.  I will be working on making planet textures for the next few days.

In my other class we are learning Maya particles.  I am working on a particle star field rather than using a matte painting as I did in a test in my lighting class.  A galaxy made of particles is also in progress.

Galaxy of particles