Pushing on... - 31/03/2016

With my first major scene, textured and mostly animated along with the drone, I decided to continue with animation where parts were missing. Ofcourse that meant the shots after the spinning vault. My story had some additions at this stage as I thought the drones/midwives could be introduced earlier on  so that they have a bigger presence and importance in the film, rather than a stuck on after thought.

I thought the midwife drones could pull off the pipes on the chamber pod, where then the door opens and the audience is lead inside to where the car is placed and the ritual is taking place.

I had real trouble animating inside the Maya scene where all the action takes place, in the first scene. The animation was really laggy inside the scene and I could not animate in it whatsoever. I had to export the parts out to a separate maya file that I needed to animate, and do the animation in an individual maya file. Some of my animation tests for the missing shots are below. I decided my shots and made my animation at this stage. I play blasted them and put the playblasts together to see how the animation as a whole would look.

Once these animations have been perfected, I will bake the animation and then export the file as an fbx and then import it back with the cameras into the main Maya scene. Whether this works, I shall see.

I pressed on with the second Maya scene present in the film, which is when the audience is led into the chamber. On the other side you are welcomed to a tower. I initially thought of some sort of Bench in which the car would be encaged as shown below:

Instead, I thought to place the car on an electrical tower which the camera would follow.



Above is the tower, the car will be placed on. I also used the steel material here to keep the assets looking consistent and also, the material just made sense. I want the core of the tower the shutter off electrical sparks as the camera spins up towards the top of the tower.