Fantastic Voyage - Models 2 and Animation Layering Practise

  Starting the week, I have received my narration back from the voice actress. I am very happy with how is has come out and she has crafted it beautifully as well as making them into separate tracks for me.

  Thus far, I have completed the models below, and hoping to finish up on the Dynein today. Next is to make the scenes and complete the centriole model. I will have to go back and look at the geometry on these models to make sure it is all correct before jumping into UV making and texturing. These seem to be taking me a lot longer than hoped to make, I'm not sure if this comes down to my low confidence in Maya/ lack of experience. But, I aim to keep moving forward and improving.

The Nucleus Front View

The Nucleus - Side

The Nucleus - Front Open

Chromosome

Chromosome

The Cell

DNA Strand

  Also this morning, I had a practise with animation layers. this helps to keep multiple animation on one model tidy and easy to change. The main thing to keep note of is making sure the base layer is locked, otherwise it will place all the keyframes on this layer and can be very messy. I still need to figure out a rig for as few of these models but I have found a few videos on rigging and scripting that may help.

Animation Layer

  I took a few days off at the beginning of the week due to feeling exhausted, but time is quickly running out. I may have to make a few choices to change some aspect due to timing. I hope to use my pre-viz as my base for the animation, then make improvements to use for the final animation/ rendering. If I take my time making for the lighting/animation/texting is all correct first in the pre-viz,  this will help make things a lot easier.  

  Another note I need to make is I have made a spelling error on the Dynein production art, but for some reason the file that I made before flattening the image has disappeared. I will have to think of a way of correcting this error.