BAJA'S BLOG

OMG....I haven't seen such high quality 3D movie in anywhere. Every hardware in this CG is REALISTIC... I am totally gobsmacked with the high quality of this movie, the storyline is ok -not strong enough. Anyway...I won't blaff much...I will let you all see the experience.

For some reason it all worked, Maya suddenly decided to function with me. Connecting the strings together was easy of course but it frustrated me a lot because things just didn't work out as the tutorial no matter what I did.

Alan told me to select the Show Hidden features (even though I did that process before and it didnt work) and now it worked ^-^

I must be very unlucky, always obstacles and bricks on my path. *sigh -_-

Anyway here are the results.

I have hit a jackpot....not money wise but in reference wise. I like blue-prints and they help me to guide with my modelling. I have always had hard time looking for a nice blue-prints of items and cars....however I have across a website where they have THOUSANDS of Blue-Prints in most cases cars, airplane and hard models. Check out the link below and I hope the website will come useful and please guys try to spend sometime to model things in your freetime apart from Uni projects.

CLICK HERE

"Run faster than the time, because the time will never wait for you." ^-^

I have been trying hard to connect the SamplerInfo to the Ramp in HyperShade for Water, Blood Vessel and X-Ray. However, no matter what I do it just wouldn't connect.

I have just come to realise as to why it could have and I think it is because I am running Maya 2010 version?... am not sure. Everyone else seems to have successfully completed that tutorial and maybe they used Maya 2009?... I think I might come to Uni on Monday and try on 2009.

Do you think that is the cause?...

I have followed your video tutorial step by step ^-^

Thanks

Before I started my course here in UCA, I was doing research and wanted to find out more about the student works. However, I also wanted to see some videos on YouTube, as I hoped there would be much more videos regarding about UCA and the lifestyle but no result except few videos, which was uploaded by the students themselves.

So I am just wondering and as a request to UCA -if possible- if UCA could create an official YouTube page just like any other Universities and I think that would be very good and attract more bright students to UCA.

Afterall, we are creative University that deals with Arts

an example of a very good official University page on Youtube would be :

www.youtube.com/user/VancouverFilmSchool

I am happy to receive my next Unit and was eager to find out what the project would be for this unit. Story-telling is my weakest subject but I would strive to create this Unit to be my first fully finished Unit as I am determined to prove I am worthy.

As for my three story components they are:

• Scarecrow
• Vacuum Cleaner
• Zoo

At the moment I am working on my Uncanny project to finish up the last pieces in Maya.

One thing I am confused about this Unit is that, do we have to model these three components ourselves using Maya and then produce the animation?.... or will they be provided to us and then we would have to animate them?... my understanding is a little blurry in this part.

As for the texture and the theme I wanted to create a childish and cartoon style onto my final render image. I looked all over the place just the type of vision I have had in mind and finally found the right one.

Below is a student made film by Ben Stern at VFS (Vancouver Film School) graduate in Canada.

Enjoy ^_^

This is my final chosen angle for the camera - I am not entirely happy with the result because I don't have texture and not enough details as I hoped. In the beginning of this project I wrote a post regarding about the concept idea for this piece and the meanings.

The Self Portrait and The Uncanny projects has awaken my long suppressed memories of my childhood. I was one of those kids who used to get bullied in a daily routine.

The Self Portrait piece was inspired from my childhood lifestyle and I used a timeline feature to indicate certain time changes.

The Uncanny Project is similar to the stories of bully but taken to another level. In one of my previous post I included a concept of a room visualising from a persons viewpoint but Phil said it needs more understanding and meaning. So I kicked back and thought a lot about rooms and interiors as to how I could draw and deliver the message that I am trying to make. However as time went on, it started to eat itself and I lost track of time. I guess most of us did.

In my previous post I mentioned about suicide, which I tried to attempt in my childhood days. There used to be rail bridge that needs to be crossed in order for me to go to my Tae-Kwon-Do lessons in Czech. That bridge was known as -The Death Bridge- reason is simple -suicide-.

That rail bridge was used a lot by people who committed suicide,(never seen anyone jump off that bridge but at least that was the rumour back then) I still wonder today as to why no one ever built a barrier to stop or even protect people from jumping off the rail bridge. Anyhow, I had everything planned to jump off from that rail bridge but was haulted at school during my lesson time by my sister.

Nothing brave to post about it but I feel this would be the most creepy or uncanny piece.

The view of the image below is visioned from my own viewpoint - What if I jumped off that bridge and what would I see before my death?...

I call it...

Render without texture using MentalRay and Realistic Sky and Sun

The Shoe

This is my train in process

Started working on my Project at around 12 in the afternoon and just finished -almost- . I have come to the stage only to render without any textures however I think I have found the right angle for my camera to create that "Uncanny" feel to the image. The following posts will include the process of my modelling. After I am done with my post for today, I would immediately start my essay as I still have a lot to do.

Am having the same problem with the X-Ray, Water and Blood Vessel. It is fairly easy but this problem is holding me back from finishing this whole project off. However I am also working on my Uncanny project. Will be back in about 2 or 3hours. Gotta go and take care of some stuff first.

I have just wasted a lot of time by trying to find out the problem with the Connection Editor in Maya when trying to connect the SamplerInfo to the Outer Ramp.

Someone please guide me in the right direction, to help you understand below is my screenshot.

When I try to connect the SamplerInfo to the Ramp using the facingRatio, in the Connection Editor the facingRation just wouldn't appear and I followed Alan's video step by step and not sure what has happened.

Thank you in advance ....

meanwhile moving onto my next project until I figure out the problem with the Blood Vessel

The Santa Hat Complete

Yesterday the Street Project sucked the life outta me and I didn't get to finish off the Pirate Cove as I hoped I would. However waking up early I just finished off the Pirate Cove. Here are the images...

Finally I am able to finish off Street Project but still not happy about the whole idea of A LOT of catching up to do. Anyhow, I will still do my best to complete everything by Friday. Wish me luck ^_^

UV Layouts - The most time consuming part within modelling ^_^

Continued from Post .........MAYA UPDATE 7