Wanted to show off the squash deformer in maya but also wanted more than only one thing squishing. I made the squishing ball have an orbit. Hence the squishing planet title. I also made the planets color change over time, as it squishes up it goes gray to blue and as it squishes down it …
Author Archives: Amanda Potts
Continuous Falling Stairs
More Basic Animating In Maya
Made a longer animation focusing on changing the movement with the graph editor. As the royal piece moves the blocks below it shrink away but somehow as it comes back the blocks reappear. I made this pretty basic but added red to the color of the light to give the piece a more flesh tone. …
Animating My Chess Board In Maya
I animated a chessboard that I had designed previously. Originally thinking of the flipping table meme that has long since been dead, I took it for a spin. Get it? The board and pieces spin. Anyway, I animated it to 15fps and then brought it up into photoshop which I then converted into a gif. …
3D Animation Loops I like
Was looking for creature animations but didn’t find any in the style I was looking for. These are both in the style’s I was thinking about but with objects and a seemingly sentient sphere. The first intrigued me because it was a simple concept but that it reconfigured the walk cycle of the character every …
Redesigning Chess in Maya
When trying to come up with a way to completing change chess, I thought “what happens when there’s no king?” Without a king piece there is no way to win. I decided to continue on that front and create three kinds of pieces, pawn, nobility, and royalty. The pawns play the same but the nobility …
Maya Household Object
I started by trying to create a remote control but after maya gave me 3 fatal errors I decided to make a new scene and keep it simple. For this I created a curve and revolved it. Most of the play I did with this was with different kinds of materials. The top is a …
Maya Experimental Object
I was playing with different tools in Maya, and created something that reminded me of a table or a lamp base by revolving around a curve I drew and decided to go with that idea. The arms are a nurb circle extruded along a curve with spheres placed on the end. The top is a …
3D Rendered Product I find Interesting
I was looking at 3D rendered images of products and found some typical ones, like headphones but I also found some like the one above which is a 3D rendered pile of pills that are in the shape they’d be in within the bottle. Some designer or business person for this company thought that showing …
Maya Scene With Unusual Incident
I call this Factory City. In this, I used basic polygons and modeling in Maya to make a cityscape that includes a factory. This city seems normal to most, but if anyone knows of my game Cognitive Workshop, they should recognize this factory. This factory is the entire setting of the game. My model is …
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