This is a project that was created for the ATEC Showcase at UT Dallas. This showcase is somewhat new and was spearheaded by Desmond Blair. The purpose of the showcase is to present a screening of student work, so that everyone can come and enjoy and view the progress and talent in side the Arts and Technology program.
For this years showcase a group of us made a really short video featuring Jorge from Halo.
Modeling - Slade Jansa, Nick Shirsty
Rigging - Slade Jansa
Animation - Slade Jansa, Nick Shirsty
Camera Effects - Bryan Martin
Sound Design - Louis Lupin
So I know I have been somewhat MIA for a little while, but I have been working diligently on creating the bubbling cauldron. I tried several different approaches from using Maya particles and making them show up as spheres to be used for the bubbles, but the problems came when I tried to take "animated spheres" into Realflow. I kept getting just a file with no movement, so after searching and searching I finally found someone that had used RealFlow to make the bubbles and the water. Below is the first animation that I have of the bubbles.
So for this weekend and since I last left off, I have worked on adding more details to the cottage. This includes making the moat have sharper edges and a steeper slope, as well as adding boards to the outside along with an extra window on the roof. I haven't imported the RealFlow mesh in this shot, so it is just the default Maya mesh I made as a place holder.
The stones on the chimney will be done with a displacement map, so I will post an update of that soon.
I have also been working on using Realflow 5 to create a realistic moving water for the moat. I hope to post a short video of it in action when it is done simulating.
