For my final assignment of the character animation module, I was to create a parody of the Pixar intro. For this I had to decide about something that would tell a short story with a comedic feel.
So to start, I modeled the same lamp from the Pixar intro (Luxo jr.) using blueprints, gave it basic materials and created the parent hierarchy since I had a lot of trouble getting the rig to work, but soon found out that using a rig was too difficult. So instead, it was a case of putting all the parts into hierarchies with their axis moved to the place of rotation.
I then modeled the UFO which was just one mesh and gave it materials. After, I created the text objects and gave that materials. I then animated it to the style of the official intro as that was my intro. The rest was part of the very short story and after rendered the animation. Then using a video editing program, I added the sounds which were extracts from the official intro and a few others videos.
The hardest part of the animation was the walk cycle. It took me a several attempts and when I found the best one, I copied the animation over a few times to create the walking cycle.
I modeled all the assets in Maya 2016 and animated everything in Cinema 4D R14.
References:
MODELING
Luxo JR lamp rigging tutorial
Luxo JR model sheet/reference
UFO modeling references 1 2 3
SOUNDS:
Official Pixar Intro Sounds
Light turn on sound effect
Light hum sound effect
Fly away sound effect
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