My animation done and rendered. T_T

Please view it on HQ (High Quality) which is the button next to the volume settings.

woooooooooooo *celebrates* I'm very happy with what I've done. When I started this module I knew that it's going to be though since I have no knowledge on maya 8.5 at all. It partially revolves around maths (graphs of x & y axis) and I'm totally bad at it. There's no background music but I did put some sound effects to give them character.

Hoy te amo by Vinnie Veritas

I just really like the soundtrack in this flash. Vinnie did quite a good job on the timing with the music. The animation made with flash is not bad but I think she cared more about the movements and angles of the clip than the looks of it? :P

Maya haha, I see progress ^^

HALLELUJAH! I'm making them move! I do keep on forgetting to keyframe things before I make the string bend left and right therefore it wasn't recording my movements. I'm really excited to finishing this, but I guess this is more of a time issue.

Using the bend handle for the balloon's string. I'm having to think about the nature of objects that the balloon is light like a feather and the cactus is the heaviest out of the 2.


finally got some character in them. They look more alive now and I'm happy with what I've done so far.

Wha? do I see colour?

Nya-hahahahaha. I'm so happy with my character's final appearances. I like how there are many choices of shading available such as lambert and blinn etc. The interesting thing is the toons tab functions where making outlines around the polygons are possible 'how exciting'. With this, my characters are more polished and alive. I was also able to make the 3D models looking like the ones in my storyboard. Okies, now thats done.. I'm ready to animate (ooooooh~).


Lovely~ what I found a little difficult is the string on the balloon. Its the only part that actually moves, the rest is static.

oooooh. now with the black outline.

OOOOH my cactus

Getting the hang of using maya and understanding the ways of modifying a polygon. This one is looking more like my cactus character than the previous one.

T_T maya prototypes

I'm currently trying to modify my cactus & balloon characters into 3D with Maya. I guess things aren't going as smooth as I wanted it to be. I can't quite seem to get them to look like the designs I did on the comic strip.

Storyboard for 3D Animation (final)

The last page. what a tragic >.< it's gonna be hard to animate when the balloon bursts.

Storyboard for 3D Animation (page2)

hurrah! page2! I've still got to upload the 3rd and final page. It's already drawn but I have to colour it before posting. 

Storyboard for 3D Animation (page 1)

WOOOOOO, page 1 of my story board for the animation pt2 brief. The 2 objects I've chosen is a cactus and a balloon. Maya is definitely hard to get used to. Expressing these characters will be a challenge T_T. hope u like my sketches.