Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Ninja Animation Project




The video is about a gang of ninjas that are going to break in a fortress that has valuables in it.

I went about developing this video by developing the scenes in a program called Adobe Photoshop and by making the ninja animation in a program called Adobe Flash. I then pieced it all together in Adobe After Effects. I added some very low wind sounds to create the illusion that the ninjas are outside.

During my time developing my movie, I learned how to make a movie flow and how to manage time working on different projects at the same time.

The animation process was okay, the hardest part was animating the ninjas themselves in Adobe Flash. I ran into many issues but I was able to overcome them.

The animation at its current state is far from 30 seconds. Its 10 seconds. The reason its 10 seconds is because I have to work on another video project for my school. But I will finish the project over the winterbreak

P.S
There is no ninja fight scene

Sorry O'Neill 









Thursday, April 14, 2011

Building tutorial

Today, I'm going to show you how to make a city block. First:
1. Open Maya
2. Make a plane by selecting the polygon under the polygon's tab
3. Select more than one face
4. Edit Extrude the faces
5. To Add doors and windows, you use the cut faces tool under Edit Mesh
6.Then select the face and extrude it

or...
 you can make a new polygon for the building instead of using planes