When learning to use Maya for modeling and animation, a task was given; find a scene that you would like to model, come up with a new character that fits in.
Draw it, build it, uv it and animate it. here i present the process from start to finish.
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first the scene I choose, which is actually an of cut from the original movie.
Here follows a gallery of my drawings for the scene
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Then came the assembly phase which led to the following steps
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Storyboarding took me through the process of planing out my moves.
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In the end the final animation looked like this