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Maya Tutorials – creating the arcade machine lights

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I always knew I wanted the server to be a collection of LED lights, I want to keep it really retro so I put together some Maya Tutorials to show how I created the arcade machine server lights.  The original script called for something far more advanced and complex.  I knew that it would be […]

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Using the Maya Toon to create the Mammoth Shader

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Mammoth Shader v01 I have been busy working away on the first iteration of the Mammoth shader using the Maya Toon Shader , (it’s actually a mammoth and dodo shader, but mammoth shader sounds cooler than dodo shader). Getting it up to speed I followed the rather excellent Maya Toon training course from Digital Tutors […]

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concept art – sample

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I thought I would share some of the concept art behind the playblasts (non lit, openGL captures from the Maya scene) to give you an idea of how it will look once all the lighting, effects and rendering take place, or at the very least how I hope it will look once the lighting, effects […]

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make your own animated movie- animation pass 2

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Hi everyone, welcome to my blog I’m going to show you how to make your own animated movie, both technical and non-technical challenges that you are going to face during the animated movie making process.  I’m charting this through making my own animated movie called Digitopia. I completed the second pass of my animated movie […]

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make you own animated movie – what targets to set yourself

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I’ve had my week away from looking at the animated movie (well I actually have been preparing by reading and watching various learning materials – the excellent Hollywood Camera Work dvd set which we ordered). let’s step through the list of things you need to do to make you animated movie and keep to schedule.   […]

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making your own 3d Animation movie

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Want to know how to make your own 3d Animation movie?  Then you’ve come to the right place.  Welcome to my filmmaking and animation blog.  Here you’ll find lots of film and animation making articles.  I’m going to be blogging about the process of making my own 3d animation movie in the real world – […]

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first pass of anim on youtube

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So having said that yesterday I bit the bullet and put the first pass of my animation online.  I had  to decide whether to put the video up on youTube or on Vimeo.  Both have their own advantages, the reason I chose youTube was that initially I would get more traction.  As the movie builds […]

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