Final Blog/Update 5

I finished and the projects is rendering so the file will be posted when it is done. I had a lot of issues early on in my project once I started working on the boots. They turned out looking fine however I spent at least a week working on them because a few faces got moved to the wrong place. They also had a ton of edges that weren't supposed to be there and they caused a lot of the issues including the material assignment one where every time I would open the project about half my colors would change. The other problem would come when I tried to change or add a new color in which the boots would change into the color of the dress and the dress became the color of the skin. The project in turned out exactly how I wanted it in the end except maybe the headpiece which looks more like poorly made hair because I wasn't able to edit it well enough to get the exact shape I wanted. Making the skeleton had a few minor issues but I was able to get it done without anything big happening, however a few parts were made different than the tutorials from Lynda. The animation went well also, and I had almost zero issues other than the tail bending and fusing with everything else because I bound it as skin instead of making it its own object, but I was able to fix it. I think the project went well because I met all of my due dates, and the only thing I was late on was posting a picture of the background because I only had time to make the post during class and didn't get to take the picture of the test render.

Animation Update 4

The background is finished, but I didn't have time in class to add the picture so it will be added first thing tomorrow in class, I need to add a platform but it will probably be part of the final animation as opposed to the background since the character interacts with it. I pretty much learned nothing at this part because I have done this before.

Animation Update 2 & 3

This picture covers both update 2 and 3 in the picture because they both tie in with each other and it is easier like this because I am past this part since I am ahead of my due dates and I don't have a picture in-between or an older save. A few colors are still messed up but will be fixed in the final render. This part was probably the longest and hardest due to the materials not wanting to cooperate and the program changing stuff when I opened it. It was fixed by cleaning some stuff up.

Animation Update 1

This is the photo of the basic model. One of the colors are different in the render than in the scene for some reason but it will be fixed in later parts. This is from yesterday I just got so caught up in working since I just love work that I forgot to post it. I learned that Maya sucks sometimes and this part along with 2/3 took the longest because the materials I would assign didn't really want to cooperate.