The past week in Gallery, I have learned alot about using motion capture data. I learned how to rig a model, and parent the joints, and IK points. Using motion capture data is very difficult, it does not always easily work at first, so I had to re-parent a few IK points and joints. The product is alright, it could have been better, but due to time I had to work with what I had.

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Commercial Project

Power to the Core
For the Commercial project John, Kali, and I decided to form a group. I had created my 3d model with the intenion of using it in the commercial project, and Kali had decided to do the same. For the project I decided to improve my 3d character model. For the majority of the project I was working on my character, and after I had created a model that I liked. After I was finished with the character I decided to work on a title sequence portion. I finished the character in MAYA, and started the title sequence in photoshop by making seporate layers of everything, and then I imported it into After Effects. The title sequence has the name of the company which is "Power to the Core" The product is "Twin Cobalt Batteries"

Kali's part was to animate his robot that he made for his previous project and he made the lab that houses the batteries. He rigged the robot, but he was not able to animate the robot correctly (As you may notice in the video). The programs he used where Maya and Motionbuilder. Kali was new at Motionbuilder and apparently had a lot of trouble animating.

John's part was to create 3d batteries in maya to act as the product being advertised in the commercial. He set the camera path and put the files together on one file. He also worked on the commercial in after effects creating scatter effects, sound effect, as well as making the robot eyes glow.