Crows First Animation Completed

First piece of background animation done!

Crows Work In Progress

This needs more comp and rain streaks on the window, and should probably be half the speed.


One of a flock of four.  Quite happy with this first rough.

Here's some diagrams of a toe-first running action I made from video footage of a barefoot kenyan boy.

Week 4 Line Test and Maya

Week 4 - pushing and pulling and last week's bouncy ball with a mesh deform to vertex color based shader I coded in MEL.




code...

int $numberOfVertices[]=`polyEvaluate -vertex pSphere1`;
string $neighbouredges[];
string $neighbourverts[];
float $edge_start_original[3];
float $edge_end_original[3];
float $edge_start_deformed[3];
float $edge_end_deformed[3];
float $diff_original[3];
float $diff_deformed[3];
float $total_length_original;
float $total_length_deformed;
float $stretch_amount[];
int $edges[];
int $i=0;
for($i=0;$i<$numberOfVertices[0];$i++)
 {
 //find neighbour edges
 $neighbouredges=`polyInfo -ve pSphereShape1.vtx[$i]`;
 string $buffer[];
 int $num_tokens = `tokenize $neighbouredges[0] $buffer`;
 $num_tokens-=2;
 for ($k=0;$k<$num_tokens;$k++)
  {
  $edges[$k]=(int)$buffer[$k+2];
  }
 //now convert the edges to lengths
 $total_length_original=0;
 $total_length_deformed=0;
 for ($l=0;$l<$num_tokens;$l++)
  {
  $neighbourverts=`polyInfo -ev pSphereShape1.e[$edges[$l]]`;
  tokenize $neighbourverts[0] $buffer;
  int $verts[2];
  $verts[0]=(int)$buffer[2];
  $verts[1]=(int)$buffer[3];
  //get edge lengths
  $edge_start_original=`xform -ws -q -t pSphereShape1Orig.vtx[$verts[0]]`;
  $edge_end_original=`xform -ws -q -t pSphereShape1Orig.vtx[$verts[1]]`;
  $edge_start_deformed=`xform -ws -q -t pSphereShape1.vtx[$verts[0]]`;
  $edge_end_deformed=`xform -ws -q -t pSphereShape1.vtx[$verts[1]]`;
  $diff_original[0]=$edge_end_original[0]-$edge_start_original[0];
  $diff_original[1]=$edge_end_original[1]-$edge_start_original[1];
  $diff_original[2]=$edge_end_original[2]-$edge_start_original[2];
  $diff_deformed[0]=$edge_end_deformed[0]-$edge_start_deformed[0];
  $diff_deformed[1]=$edge_end_deformed[1]-$edge_start_deformed[1];
  $diff_deformed[2]=$edge_end_deformed[2]-$edge_start_deformed[2];
  $total_length_original+=sqrt(pow($diff_original[0],2)+pow($diff_original[1],2)+pow($diff_original[2],2));
  $total_length_deformed+=sqrt(pow($diff_deformed[0],2)+pow($diff_deformed[1],2)+pow($diff_deformed[2],2));
  }
 $stretch_amount[$i]=($total_length_deformed/$total_length_original);
 }
//find max and min
float $max_stretch=-1;
float $min_stretch=-1;
for($i=0;$i<$numberOfVertices[0];$i++)
 {
 if($max_stretch==-1 && $min_stretch==-1)
  {
  $max_stretch=$stretch_amount[$i];
  $min_stretch=$stretch_amount[$i];
  }
 if($max_stretch<$stretch_amount[$i])$max_stretch=$stretch_amount[$i];
 if($min_stretch>$stretch_amount[$i])$min_stretch=$stretch_amount[$i];
 }
for($i=0;$i<$numberOfVertices[0];$i++)
 {
 if($min_stretch!=$max_stretch)$stretch_amount[$i]=($stretch_amount[$i]-$min_stretch)*(1/($max_stretch-$min_stretch));
 else $stretch_amount[$i]=0;
 polyColorPerVertex -colorR $stretch_amount[$i] pSphereShape1.vtx[$i];
 polyColorPerVertex -colorG $stretch_amount[$i] pSphereShape1.vtx[$i];
 polyColorPerVertex -colorB $stretch_amount[$i] pSphereShape1.vtx[$i];
 }

Week 2 Line Test

Week 2 was bouncing balls of various types.

Week 1 Line Test

Week 1 was a free brief.  Here's a man trying to catch a crow, from the end of the week to the start of the week, every line test in reverse order!