During the month of december during the VEF2 class, the first project assigned was this fluid fire in Maya. My objective was to replicate a match, using the newly learned Maya tools which I will explain. The first and for most is to create a 3D fluid box which contains and houses all fluid effects. adding a emitter and making ludicrous amounts of adjustments in the attribute editor. mostly messing with things like velocity, value axis, buoyancy and others.

For this project I was assigned to research and create a new effect that we have not learned in class, for this I chose a fluid tornado. This was completely new to me, using numerous online sources I a simple process. First creating a fluid container and making 3 emitters in a triangle formation. Emitter type to value, Valume shape cube, Density rate 20. Create a volume axis change the magnitude to 30 and the shape to cylinder. Mess with the transparency, change the color to desired, lower the opacity. add self shade to the tornado, up the resolution for great quality and have fun.

My final project, a flooded street view. This project required me to create an ocean and modify the settings in maya to make it seam more life like. Creating a wake for the fire hydrant and the bus stop to add collision, making the water semi transparent in order to vaguely see the street texture under the water. I wanted to add costeax because it looks beautiful but time would not allow that.

This man goes by the name Damion Cruz. Living on the rough streets in a not so good neighborhood, damion had to really on his street smarts and instincts at the age of 12. Being around not so kind people, his trust in others is very low.  He started working in mafia to make ends meat. Now 30 years later, he has moved up in the world into the cutthroat business of finance. He meets with other business leader and finical backers for the mafia’s legitimate company. Today he had a scheduled meeting to meet up with Finical inverters from a rather shady company.

Name: Damion Cruz

Sex: Male

Age: 42

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Power Center: Forehead

Energy Level: He is highly energized and ready to work.

Status: Suspicious, Cautious

Use of space: Open space needed for wide gestures and movement.

Temperament: Honest

Fears: being powerless

Passions: Acting, Earning money, Working out.

Physiological traits:  Christen, Slow opening to people, Very stubborn.

Personality traits: Cautious, Out spoken, Confident, Honest, Straight foreword.

Beliefs systems: Believes one should always keep their word, believes your as good as the company you keep around.

Strengths: Company backing, Confidence, Mentally strong because of rough upbringing

Habits: Takes stairs instead of elevators, Makes gestures when he’s mad, Sings randomly when thinking goes off course.

Maturity: Very mature, Serious when it comes to work, lets loose when with friends.

Culture: Christian, White male, subtle Irish heritage.

Self-Esteem: Very high, no lack of confidence, believes can do what ever he puts his mind to.

Intellect: Community college, associate in financial investment.

Financial status: Upper middle class, live in a urban area. $60K a year.

Health: Very fit because of continues work outs, Has dandruff that won’t go away.

Likes: His family, money, singing, The dreamcast system, older music.

Dislikes: Broken promises, money struggles, Karen from community college, spiders.

Traits:

Gestures: Uses his hands to advance body language.

Motivators: His past, His family, Obama, His dream of his wife singing with him.

Objective: Gather and find potential invertors for the company.

Obstacles: Verifying if invertor is a good match for the company.

Additional Information:

-Married for 6 years to Cathrine Cruz.

-Two kids, boy named Eric, girl named Mira.

-Lives in a a house in a urban area, with a Great Dane.

-Dislikes Karen from community college for stealing his spotlight.

This month for the class CAN2, I was needed to create a lip-sync of a character and a complete backstory for him ass well, with much susses if i say so myself. The man named Damion Cruz is the creation I decided fit the situation. To begin with, I had to make a storyboard and pre pro on how I wanted the general things to play out. Following that I made a quick scene and placed the shot camera to an standby location. For the first part I made all the key poses on the right word's, then followed by doing the in-betweens while all on stepped. moving on to auto-tangent and speeding up or slowing down the paces where necessary to complete the movement. Then I would do the facial movement in the correct places to make it seem believable that the character would be talking. With lots of critiques in between this has come to be pretty impressive.

STE

Mustang Shelby gt500

One of the most memorable things I have done in STE was create a car in the program soft image. The process ant time making this was unbelievably long and difficult. Having no experience modeling cars, I proceeded to start with the method of box molding, slowly adding edge loops and placing the vert's in place. When the base was done, I started grabbing faces and extruding them to show small differences in places as the headlights and windsheild.

Proceeding to the wheels, I made a cylinder and added and moved vert's into places, then beveling the harder edges. The Tire was made by a flat plane, excluding a face up, then coping the object in the X axis, then rapidity copying it in the Y axis. Then using a bend deformer, I turned the plane into a wheel.

 My 3 beauties from different render layers of warm lights, Key lights, and a cool light.

 My UV created from the scraper which came out messy but nicely done.

 The completion of adding together the three beauties, and a glare for effect.

My first assignment by placing lights in particular places and adding shadows.

 I learned a slew of new things this month, Including the caustics which is a pretty cool new thing i'll be able to use for still lives, As well as the translucency which was previously untouched until this class. I mostly did my exploring in new when I tried to make all kinds of stuff and failed at only a few.

Light Art Experiments.